Robinson Crusoe House

It was built by the prosperous coffee merchant Ludwig Roselius who admired the pioneering spirit of Daniel Defoe's fictional hero Robinson Crusoe.

The coffee merchant Ludwig Roselius, who envisioned and financed the Böttcherstraße project,[1] had himself proposed the design which was developed by Karl von Weihe.

Roselius chose the name in memory of the novel by Daniel Defoe from 1719 whose hero was the son of a Bremen merchant who had settled in York.

[3] The rooms in Robinson Crusoe House were devoted principally to the newly founded Club zu Bremen.

[4] None of the original decorations remain but today there are carved panels in the stairway representing scenes from the story of Robinson Crusoe crafted by Theodor Schultz-Walbaum.

Robinson Crusoe House (on the left) and Atlantis House (right)
Panther carrying the Night
The cat sculpture sits above the sea water aquarium outside the house