Residential garden in Bremen - St. Magnus

The garden is located in the scenic north of the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen. The area on the approximately 20 m high Geest above the nearby Wesermarsch is characterised by a remarkable garden cultural wealth. Here you will find numerous gardens and parks of former country estates which Bremen merchants had laid out, especially in the second half of the 19th century. In this environment, a generous residential garden was created by merging several plots of land, on which the owners had their old residence sensitively replaced by a new building that was modern but at the same time committed to the local building tradition.

The natural differences in level within the garden plot were taken up by a garden retaining wall, which divides the garden space into a terrace garden at the same level as the living area and a lower area with a central garden pond. Both levels are connected by stairs.

The gravel garden of the terrace level carries a natural mixed planting of grasses and flowering shrubs, in which the terrace is embedded. The deeper garden area with the pond, on the other hand, is framed by a rather typical local woody planting. Some older copses, which screen this only partially reworked garden part, give the largely newly designed overall plant a mature character.

The dark gray Eifel basalt lava of the paved areas at the house and the used prefabricated concrete parts, laid in the simple runner bond, correspond in color with the blue-red peat fire clinker of the rising house facade in its characteristic color depth.

The approx. 150 m² garden pond in the center of the garden have created the builders themselves. It also receives the roof water, which is fed to the pond via the water feature integrated into the retaining wall.