The Kränholm House was built in 1971 as a reconstruction of a manor house built in 1896/1897 according to plans by Eduard Gildemeister and Wilhelm Sunkel elsewhere and demolished to build a highway. It has been a listed building since 2010 as part of the Knoops Park monument group.
The two-storey building in the shape of a Lower Saxon half-timbered farmhouse with a hipped roof was built from 1896 to 1897 in the era of historicism north of the Bremen-Vegesack railway line near Lesumer Heerstrasse for the merchant Wilhelm Kulenkampff (1852–1929), who came from the Kulenkampff family, and his wife Emilie née Knoop (1858–1920). Above the entrance in the form of an archway, the wooden beam reads: “In the north and south the world is white. In the east and west the house is the best”.
The house was named after the river island Kreenholm in the Narva, which today belongs to Estonia. In 1856, the Bremen merchant Ludwig Knoop, Emilie Kulenkampff's father, bought the island, which at the time belonged to the Russian Empire, and had a cotton spinning mill built on it, which later became the Kreenholmi Manufaktur textile factory.
The building was on the route of the newly built federal highway 74 (now Autobahn 270) and was therefore demolished and the half-timbered parts salvaged. It was rebuilt in 1971 as a reconstruction with a different appearance and one floor reduced opposite the gatehouses of the Albrechtsburg in Knoops Park for use by the horticultural department of the Bremen-Nord building authority. Older components were used. A cottage garden, a model garden for shade plants and a half-timbered barn, which is used as a coach house, were created at the house. Next to the newly built Kränholm House is the Tillery House of Knoop's head gardener Tillery.
The house is currently used as a restaurant with the art café in the former head gardener's house and the barn as an event space as well as a neighboring sculpture garden. The Kränholm House Foundation manages the property.
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