Haus Weyhausen

Haus Weyhausen stands in Bremen’s Oberneuland district as a residence shaped by early twentieth-century architectural ideas. The building dates from the year 1914.

Rudolf Alexander Schröder designed the house with Diedrich Luley for Helene Weyhausen on the Schütte estate. Helene Weyhausen was Georg Schütte’s mother-in-law. Its white-plastered, single-storey body carries a thatched hipped roof, while a broad two-storey central projection adds height. Several round dormers punctuate the thatched roof. An owl dormer at the gable peak gives the roofline a distinctive architectural detail within the house’s design. A sloping roof shelters the covered entrance. The design combines conservative and reformist styles with Lower Saxon elements and classical forms associated with Oberneuland estates. Schröder was also an architect and writer. Bremen’s Landesamt für Denkmalpflege identifies Haus Weyhausen as an exemplary Reform-style model rooted in local building traditions before 1914. The residence has had monument protection since 1998, reflecting its architectural and historical value.