Villa Nebelthau
The Villa Nebelthau stands in Bremen's Schwachhausen district, a two-storey house completed in 1891. Architect Carl Bollmann drew it in the neo-Renaissance style of the historicism era. A clinker brick facade gives the house its face. Above it rises a three-storey turret under a tented roof, playful and grand at once.
The client was Friedrich Nebelthau, a lawyer and syndic in the city. He sat in the Bremen Parliament from 1891 to 1898 and served as a senator from 1900 to 1918. During the National Socialist years, the villa became a meeting point for former senators whom the regime had dismissed. Theodor Spitta and Hermann Apelt were among them, joining Nebelthau to exchange ideas and thoughts.
Since 2005, Bremen's heritage conservation laws have protected the building. The house remains in private family ownership, and a well-known Bremen company uses it today. The tented roof still rises where Bollmann drew it in 1891.
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