Haus Kapitän Dallmann
In Bremen's Blumenthal district stands a single-storey house with a gabled roof. The Haus Kapitän Dallmann went up around 1850 for Captain and shipowner Nicolaus Friedrich Hashagen. It carries the classical style of the historicist era, with a veranda at the back. Later generations of owners reshaped the street-facing facade.
When the house was new, Blumenthal was a small community in the Kingdom of Hanover, which Prussia annexed in 1866. Captain Johann Karl Meyer bought the property in 1874, and Mathilde Witting acquired it after him. In 1888 Meta Wieting, daughter of the sea captain and polar explorer Eduard Dallmann, took over. Dallmann himself lived in the house after his voyages, permanently from 1894 until his death in 1896. In 1926 the street took his name in honour.
People still live in the house, and Bremen has protected it as a monument since 1984. It documents how modestly even Blumenthal's notable captains lived in the nineteenth century. Up at the gable, the palmette-shaped acroteria crown the roofline, small ornaments that have outlasted every owner.
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