Landhaus Horn, Art Deco residence in Schwachhausen, Germany.
Landhaus Horn is a residential complex with three- to four-story buildings featuring brick facades arranged in an H-shape that defines the ensemble. The structures connect at ground level, creating one unified layout across the site.
The old buildings were designed by Heinz Stoffregen in 1928/29 in Art Deco brick style; after his death in 1929, Carl Eeg and Eduard Runge handled the execution planning in 1929/30. In 1946 the US military authority confiscated the site and set up the Hotel Bremen for its soldiers. After its return in 1952, the city welfare office acquired the area and passed it to the Bremer Heimstiftung, which opened a retirement home there in 1953.
The complex grew out of the Margarethe von Post and Geschwister Kronning foundations, which planned the Margarethe von Post-Haus and the Geschwister Kronning-Haus on the site; the result was Landhaus Horn, opened with 96 rooms. Since 1953 it has served as housing for older people, and many residents moved here from the foundation's small outlying branches.
The site is best explored on foot, allowing you to view the buildings and their arrangement from the outside. It sits in a quiet residential neighborhood that is easy to walk through.
A bust of the entrepreneur Ernst Heinrich Kahrweg, modelled by Diedrich Kropp in 1884, has stood in the garden of the Landhaus Horn residence since 1962. It is easy to miss when walking past the buildings.
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