Pfarrhaus Wasserhorst
Pfarrhaus Wasserhorst stands in Bremen’s Blockland, directly opposite the Evangelical Church Wasserhorst. The carpenter Johann Lürssen designed the present house. Construction dates from 1901 to 1902, when the Behrens company from Burgdamm built the parsonage for Wasserhorst’s church board. Its clinker-brick walls support a gabled roof. A representative gable front centres on a sandstone risalit, with sandstone arches above the ground-floor windows and two-storey wings. The garden reaches towards the Wümme River.
The present house replaces an older, single-storey half-timbered parsonage with a thatched roof, first recorded in 1632. A fire destroyed the older building and the church records. Wasserhorst appears as Horst in 1187 and as Horstzatere in 1410, while the settlement carried the name up’r horst until the eighteenth century. The name Horst means a tectonic block. Bremen protects the Pfarrhaus Wasserhorst as heritage since 1995, preserving a building tied to Blockland’s church history.
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