Haus der Stadtsparkasse

Haus der Stadtsparkasse stands at the corner of Langenstraße and Bremen’s busy Market Square in northwestern Germany. Its Rococo façade faces a historic ensemble on the square’s north side.

Johann Georg Hoffschlaeger commissioned the original house in 1755, with stonemason Theophilus Wilhelm Frese creating its bow window and wig-topped gable. In 1836, Georg Friedrich Pflüger turned the property into an inn called Stadt Paris. An early twentieth-century replacement preserved the façade, but an air raid destroyed the building in 1944. Rudolf Stein rescued parts of the wreckage, including the façade, before architect Eberhard Gildemeister led reconstruction in 1957 and 1958. Red-brick side walls now frame the surviving Rococo elements, while the interior combines 1950s design with Baroque decoration.

A market-side door with a skylight marks the entrance, and the building houses a municipal savings-bank branch. The façade became a protected historic monument in 1973, alongside the Rathscafé, Haus zum Jonas and Raths-Apotheke. Look up at the gable: its sculptural wig remains the most distinctive detail above the square.