Haus Dr. Pickel
The Haus Dr. Pickel stands in Bremen-Vegesack as one of the city's few Neues Bauen buildings. Built in 1931, it carries the modernist movement's programme in clear cubic forms. Flat roofs overhang far beyond the walls below, and windows in various formats sit in deliberate asymmetry. The result is a graphic strictness you can read from across the street.
The architect Ernst Becker-Sassenhof, known for his work in the Neues Bauen style, designed it for the dentist Ferdinand Pickel. The commission combined a dental surgery with a private home. The house rises two and three storeys, with a two-storey extension and a single-storey section at the back. Since 1994 it has stood under the protection of the Bremisches Denkmalschutz, Bremen's heritage conservation authority.
Becker-Sassenhof left other notable buildings elsewhere in Bremen. They include the Haus am Wasser, the chapel at the Vegesacker Cemetery and the Haus Grohne in Schwachhausen. The same walls that once held a surgery and a home hold homes and offices.
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