The Mayor-Hintze-House

image author: Uwe Albrecht

Immediately visible is here the compact sandstone facade of the Mayor-Hintze-House from 1621. It is more or less the only part, which has been preserved from this historical house. The only other are the brick side walls, which serve at the same time as firewalls for the neighbouring houses.

The house was originally a late-Gothic, three-level gable house, whose facade was rebuilt in the compact Weser-Renaissance style in 1621.
Due to the bad building site and an insufficient foundation the house became so decrepit that the house had to be pulled down in 1930. Only the carefully documented facade was rebuilt using all the old freestones in 1932/33. The completely new building behind the facade was roughly shortened in depth by a third.

image author: Uwe Albrecht

The facade is stylistically tightly related with the earlier built Bremer commercial houses. The workpieces are made of grey-white sandstone, the surfaces of plastered bricks. Interesting are the seven spire attachments of the stepped gable, the coat-of-arms in the portal's pendentive of the owner Heino Hintze and his wife as well as the two bizarre mask above the portal.

The neighbouring houses take a backseat next to the Mayor-Hintze-House quite unjustly. The house on the right side, Wasser West 25, is an unpretentious two-level gable house with a relatively low corbels at the two levels. At the outer walls the Gothic blind arches of the Hintze-House are still visible. Remarkable is the richly decorated neo-classic front door where two mask consoles are visible in the frame.