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We are there for you –
Together we are strong!
Managing Director Achim Becker, from the
start it was important for Stoertebeker House
not to be another faceless office complex,
but an architectural point of interest with
landmark character representing Hanseatic
merchant spirit. The building is intended to be
a fortress against any type of mid-size business
discrimination, instead remaining open to
promising ideas and any form of creativity.
Stoertebeker House
Home of Emporium Hamburg
With the clinker facade, building owner Becker
continues a good Hanseatic tradition and, with
the idea for the building to be entirely devoted
to the mid-size businesses, he conquered new
frontiers.
In addition, Stoertebeker House shows
fascinating attention to detail. Right under the
clock face on Borstelmannsweg, for example,
there is a Stoertebeker carillon.
Every day just before noon two ships appear,
followed by six Victual Brothers led by
Stoertebeker and Goedeke Michel, and then
disappear again. In the second circuit the
executioner appears and with every second
stroke of the bell he beheads one of the six
Victual Brothers.
The roofs and domes of the House are dressed
in copper by skilled artisan hands. Above the
main entrance, facing the roundabout, on the
level of the terrace on the 6th floor, kneeling
on a semi-circular heavy sandstone ledge, there
is a bronze figure of Atlas bearing the great
burden of the globe on his shoulders.
These small storytelling details run like a common
thread throughout the building. Compass rose
mosaics in the floor, tall columns, a magnificent
domed hall, radiators with dragon heads,
leaded windows, hand-forged art nouveau
ornaments for the banisters – all of this was
very important to the building owner, to show
that Stoertebeker House is designed by human
hands with dedication and warmth. Solely
intended to highlight Hanseatic merchant
spirit and virtues in combination with a
feel-good atmosphere for employees and
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