Roseliushaus

The Roseliushaus is a museum on Bremen’s historic Böttcherstraße, housed in the street’s oldest building. Its foundations reach back to the fourteenth century.

Completed in 1588, the building entered Ludwig Roselius’s ownership in 1902 and expanded for his collection in 1928. Ludwig Roselius founded Kaffee HAG.

The museum presents medieval and Baroque works, including altarpieces, paintings by Ludger tom Ring and Lucas Cranach, and mourners by Tilman Riemenschneider. The Cranach Room displays Martin Luther and Katharina von Bora.

In the entrance hall, a carved oak Saint Christopher stands beside Weser vessel models and seventeenth- and eighteenth-century furniture. The Oberlichtsaal occupies a former inner courtyard.

Religious works from the fourteenth to sixteenth centuries fill that room, with pieces associated with Conrad von Soest and Joos van Cleve. The Gothic Room resembles a small chapel.

It contains a Madonna by the Osnabrück Master, while the dining room presents Renaissance works from the sixteenth to eighteenth centuries. The Treasury holds silver works on loan from the Blackheads of Riga.

A Saint George reliquary and a ceremonial Baroque jug belong to its displays. The Staircase Hall combines a tapestry and furnishings in a setting resembling a banqueting hall.