Named after the fabled lost continent of Atlantis and designed by Bernhard Hoetger in 1930/31, this house was intended to reflect the legendary myth.

In his search for the origins of mankind Ludwig Roselius had been convinced of the  theories of early and prehistoric researcher Herman Wirth. He understood  that the sunken continent of Atlantis, populated by Germans was in the North Sea. 

Then they went out to bring their culture and civilization to Egypt and to Mesopotamia. Thus the oldest culture is Germanic making the Germans the oldest race on earth. 

Hoetger wanted to document this cultural leadership with futuristic architecture: It was built from unusual combinations of materials like glass, wood and concrete in geometric shapes. The interior was decorated in a modern art deco style. 

The house Atlantis did not provide mere ideological purposes inside, but was used by Roselius for his co-founded 'Bremen Club' as a domicile and as a functional building with lecture and reading room, collection and club rooms. 

The facade, however, was an eloquent testimony of the German cult, created by designs from the Edda and Atlantis visions of Herman Wirth. As the highlight, over the entrance area, was displayed a so-called "Tree of Life"( Lebensbaum)  - a large-sized wooden sculpture depicting the Germanic powers of fate and the figure of the "Atlantic savior". The tree formed an archaized image of the Wheel of the Year, a cross and the solar disc, symbolically representing the origin of life from the start of the year, in other words the beginnings of humanity.

Odin statue, was surrounded by a wheel with runes and a quotation of the episode in the Poetic Edda where Odin suffers self-sacrifice to gain the power of the runes ...

Ich weiß, daß ich hing am windigen Baum neun Nächte lang, vom Ger verwundet, dem Odin geweiht, ich selber mir selbst.

I know that I hung on a windy tree, nine nights long, wounded with a spear, dedicated to Odin, myself to myself.

In October 1944, the expressive facade burnt down and the remains of the wooden sculpture were removed.

In 1988 House Atlantis was separated from the Böttcherstrasse ensemble, and sold. 

Today House Atlantis is a part of the Radisson Blu Hotel Bremen.