# Schütting

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The Schütting stands on Bremen’s market square, opposite the town hall, with a history reaching back to the fifteenth century. Merchants used the site as a guild house.

In 1444, Bremen’s merchants purchased a house there, creating the foundation for the present building. Johann den Buschener built a new Schütting in 1547.

Its western gable combines Late Gothic and Renaissance forms, while Karsten Husmann completed the eastern Renaissance gable in 1565. A maritime gable later strengthened the building’s connection with Bremen’s trading world.

The façade changed repeatedly during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, including a grand portal and Low German inscription above the door. The inscription urges merchants to risk action at home and abroad.

Fire destroyed the Schütting in October 1944, but reconstruction restored its late nineteenth-century exterior by 1956. Its interior received a new arrangement.

The Bremen Chamber of Commerce has occupied the building since 1849, moving into its ground floor in 1951. The façade and copper roof received repairs in 2009.

The Schütting also carries Bremen’s coffeehouse history, because a coffee house established in 1673 moved there by 1679. Its commercial story continues through the Club zu Bremen.

The building’s name has competing explanations, linking it either to Norwegian meeting houses or merchants pooling money. Monument protection has covered the Schütting in Bremen since 1973.

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## Photos

- ![](https://mytuur-bucket.s3.amazonaws.com/image_Schtting_67e6b4db8b0b76b344518f9c_0.jpg) — [Image: wikimedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Schütting_Westgiebel_1538.jpg)
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- ![](https://mytuur-bucket.s3.amazonaws.com/image_Schtting_67e6b4db8b0b76b344518f9c_2.jpg) — [Image: wikimedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:HB_2016-0607_photo02_Schuetting.jpg)
- ![](https://mytuur-bucket.s3.amazonaws.com/image_Schtting_67e6b4db8b0b76b344518f9c_3.jpg) — [Image: wikimedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Schütting_1641_Merian.png)
- ![](https://mytuur-bucket.s3.amazonaws.com/image_Schtting_67e6b4db8b0b76b344518f9c_4.jpg) — [Image: wikimedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:SchuettingWappen.jpg)

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