page_title: Bremen City Hall
section_title: 20th century
hierarchical_section_title: Bremen City Hall / History / 20th century
caption_attribution_description: Das Bremer Rathaus vom Kirchhof Unser Lieben Frauen im Nordwesten gesehen, von rechts nach links: Arkade zum Markt, Schmalseite des Hauptgebäudes (sog. Alten Rathauses), Kanzleianbau von 1682/83, Erweiterungsbau von 1909/10 (sog. Neues Rathaus)
context_page_description: The Bremen City Hall is the seat of the President of the Senate and Mayor of the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen. It is one of the most important examples of Brick Gothic and Weser Renaissance architecture in Europe. Since 1973, it has been a protected historical building. In July 2004, along with the Bremen Roland statue, the building was added to the list of UNESCO World Heritage Sites.
context_section_description: From 1820 to 1900, Bremen multiplied its population, and, in the decades around 1900, Wilhelminism preferred abundant representation. Therefore, an enlargement of the town hall was planned. In 1909, the Stadthaus was dismantled in order to build the new town hall on its ground. During that work, many Gothic artifacts were found, significantly more than historians expected. With the "Neues Rathaus" ("New Town Hall"), the town hall in 1909–1913 received an extension about twice as large as the old building. The Munich architect Gabriel von Seidl succeeded to avoid a dominance of his addition. Nevertheless, its three Neo-renaissance facades are a very late example of Historism. The fourth one, facing the Church of Our Lady and adjacent to the rest of the Baroque extension, is rather Art Nouveau.
  By boarding up the outer walls, and due to heroic efforts of the fire brigade, the town hall of Bremen survived the air raids of World War II with little damage, though more than sixty percent of the city was destroyed.
caption: Gothic, Renaissance, Baroque and Art Nouveau parts from northwest
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