Rathscafé, Protected heritage building at Bremer Marktplatz, Germany

Rathscafé, now called Deutsches Haus, stands at Am Markt 1 on the corner of Bremen's market square and Liebfrauenkirchhof. Rudolf Jacobs designed the four-storey building with saddle roofs, built 1909–1911; Herbert Anker rebuilt the war-damaged corner house in 1950/51. Its group of three gabled houses carries 18th-century oriel windows, portals and a late Renaissance gate of about 1660 from Hakenstrasse 1.

A municipal wine house stood on this corner in the Middle Ages, later given a Renaissance gable and used as a wine warehouse into the 17th century. After private ownership and remodelling, it housed a lingerie shop around 1900 before the city bought and demolished it. A Germany-wide competition won by the young Bremen architect Rudolf Jacobs produced the present four-storey building with saddle roofs, erected 1909–1911. Heavily damaged in the Second World War, it was rebuilt in 1950/51 by Paul Kossel to Herbert Anker's plans and renamed Deutsches Haus.

The building's name changed after its post-war reconstruction: the former Rathscafé became the Deutsches Haus, and the rooms once called Marktdielen (market hallways) were renamed Bürgerstuben (citizens' rooms), while some kept the name Rathsstuben. The Deutsche Bruderhilfe, which distributed West German donations to citizens of the GDR, had its office here.

The building stands at the corner of Am Markt and Hakenstrasse, on the north-west side of the market square, with the Liebfrauenkirchhof opposite. The restaurant Beck's am Markt occupies the ground floor; the upper floors, including the rooms of the Industrie-Club Bremen, are not open to visitors. The reused portals, oriel windows and gable carvings are best examined from the pavement on the market side.

The building incorporates salvaged elements from demolished Bremen houses, including a staircase and carved parapets from a patrician residence. These reclaimed materials connect it to earlier city life and layer history into its construction.