House of the Seven Lazy Brothers

The House of the Seven Lazy Brothers (German: Haus der Sieben Faulen) is a historic building in Bremen, Germany, completed in 1927.

With a name based on a local legend, the building located in Böttcherstraße in the old town was built by the prosperous coffee merchant Ludwig Roselius to a design by Bremen architects Eduard Scotland and Alfred Runge.

With the benefit of experience, they worked in their father's fields, dug drainage ditches and built a dyke next to the Weser which prevented it from flooding.

He persuaded the authorities to let him build a small colony of shops, studios and apartments there, drawing on North German architectural styles.

Opposite the Paula Modersohn-Becker House, Runge and Scotland designed the long complex known as the HAG Haus (from the name of Roselius' company: Handels Aktien Gesellschaft).