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The citizen house, constructed between 1406 and 1426, is one of the oldest houses in Lüneburg. It was named after its occupier and Sülff master Dietrich von Brömse. Due to many building alterations during the centuries, the initial Gothic origin is hardly recognisable.
Today, you find at the front part of the house (at the part facing the street "Am Berge" and "Conventstrasse") the coat of arms of the hanseatic towns of Riga, Lübeck, Lüneburg, Danzig and the coat of arms of the Brömse family. At the southern side of the house 3 remaining four-centred arches point to the fact that in earlier times the monastery chapel St. Andreae of the monastery Heiligenthal must have stood at this place. At the Conventstraße there was an annex which contained the festival room. At this place you now find a new building, where the North-East institution is located. The richly decorated courtyard gable at the east side of the house is formed as an oblique gable with a short spanker gaff right and left at the lower end.
In the entrance hall at the basement you find unique paintings at the beamed ceiling. One room at the basement contains a rare figurative plaster ceiling stemming from 1637. The octagonal parts depict biblical scenes and parables.
In the year 1937 the Brömse house was rented by the Carl-Schirren-Foundation e.V. and later bought by them. Today the building is owned by the Deutschbaltischen Kulturstiftung (German Baltic culture foundation) and utilised jointly with the institute for culture and history of the Germans in the Eastern part of Europe - short North-East-Institute- for events, public lectures, concerts and seminars.