Carsch house

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Carsch-Haus with the music pavilion of the Wilhelm-Marx-Haus
Carsch house with night lighting

The Carsch-Haus is a department store in Düsseldorf . It was a branch of the department store company Carsch & Co . built.

The first construction

On May 23, 1911, Paul Carsch offered the city of Düsseldorf to build one block of houses in the old town on Hindenburgwall - today's Heinrich-Heine-Allee - with a uniform commercial building. The building was to be built in the area of ​​Allee-Platz between Flinger Strasse , Alleestrasse, Neubrückstrasse and the Stadtbrückchen. The city was so impressed by this project that it was approved after just eight days.

Carsch commissioned the architect Otto Engler (1861–1940), who is experienced in department store and commercial building construction, to plan a five-story building with a neoclassical sandstone facade. The building application was submitted in April 1913 and approved that same year. After two years of construction, the building was officially opened on March 10, 1915. From an advertisement: “Gustav Carsch & Co. Düsseldorf. Located on the Hindenburgwall, the border between old town and new town. The house for elegant men's and boys' clothing, sports and livery clothing + men's fashion items. "

The name Carsch-Haus quickly became a household name for the people of Düsseldorf . Even the rulers of National Socialism could not change that with their renaming to “Modehaus des Westens” and the forced sale to Carsch's authorized representative Fritz Seiffert as part of the Aryanization . Paul Carsch managed to escape deportation in time and emigrated to Amsterdam in April 1939 .

The building was badly damaged in the bombing of the Second World War in June 1943. The reinforced concrete skeleton construction of the building turned out to be very robust, so that after the war the occupying powers ensured that the adult education center and the international education center "Die Brücke" with an extensive foreign language library could move in. There Lilo Milchsack and her colleagues founded the Society for Cultural Exchange with England on March 18, 1949 . V. , from which today's German-British Society emerged . Another user was the private theater " Kammerspiele " under the direction of Hansjörg Utzerath until 1967 . After that the building was used as a department store again for a few years.

The demolition

In 1974, the Düsseldorf construction department, Dr. Rüdiger Recknagel applied for a plan approval procedure to demolish the building for the construction of the underground and the Heinrich-Heine-Allee underground station . Then in April 1976 the Rhenish Association for Monument Preservation proposed a relocation of the Carsch House, which was supported by the Horten AG as financier and caused long local political discussions. The two Düsseldorf architecture offices HPP Hentrich, Petschnigg & Partner and RKW Rhode Kellermann Wawrowsky were commissioned to plan the project and therefore formed the Carsch-Haus architectural association . During the six-year planning phase, more than 2,500 construction plans were drawn up, and it was decided to demolish the building and build a new one at a different location, to which the old facade was attached.

The demolition work began on July 5, 1979 , during which 4800 facade stones had to be numbered and cataloged. These were temporarily stored and restored in Düsseldorf-Volmerswerth . A relatively small number had to be replaced with new stones. At the same time as the restoration work, the new building began, and in March 1983 the last stone of the old facade was attached to the new building.

The new Building

The new construction of the Carsch House, which was officially opened on September 27, 1984, created 10,500 m² of retail space on six floors. 2200 m² of this is in the underground area, which also enables direct access to the underground station. As part of the extensive construction work, an underground car park was set up together with the neighboring Wilhelm-Marx-Haus .

In its opening Carsch-house was the only nationwide Horten -Kaufhaus that led a separate name and with a more exclusive product assortment from the other department stores in the department store chain took off. This did not change after the takeover of Horten in 1994 by Kaufhof Holding , which now had two department stores in the immediate vicinity. The further development of the property company also led to the Carsch-Haus via the merger of Kaufhaus Holding with Metro Cash & Carry in 1996 and the transformation in 2008 into “Galeria Kaufhof GmbH”. At the end of September 2015, Metro, to which Galeria Kaufhof GmbH belonged, sold the GmbH to Hudson's Bay Company (HBC).

  • Entrances continue to be labeled "Horten" (2017)

  • Heinrich-Heine-Platz

  • Flinger Strasse

In 2016, a comprehensive modernization of the interior of the building on Königsallee began under the new owner of the Galeria Kaufhof, the “Hudson's Bay Company” . In this context, the food department with sweets, spirits and wines was moved to the basement of the Carsch-Haus and merged with the department there. The area for groceries and gourmet offers already available in the Carsch-Haus has thus been enlarged and further expanded ( as of April 2017 ).

Since the beginning of 2017, the Carsch-Haus, like the neighboring Kaufhof, has also been operating under the name “Kaufhof-Galeria”. However, at the same time it became known that a reorganization was planned and the previous operations will be discontinued. The sale and evacuation from the ground floor upwards has been in progress since the end of 2016. This evacuation was completed by February 2017 and operations have since ceased. The interior furnishings were modernized. Only in the basement was sales and operations continued at this time.

On June 8, 2017, after the end of the modernization, the Kaufhof owner HBC opened the first German branch of its chain Saks Off 5th as an outlet center for designer fashion on the newly furnished floors . On June 30, 2019, she closed the deal with a sale after the Austrian Signa Holding had taken over 100 percent of the property.

Carsch House Wiesbaden

The Horten department store in Wiesbaden , founded in 1967, was also called “Carsch-Haus” from 1985 until it was redesigned as “Galeria Kaufhof ” in 1997. There is no direct reference to the historic Carsch House.

literature

  • Eberhard Grunsky: Otto Engler. Business and department store architecture 1904–1914. (= Workbooks of the Landeskonservator Rheinland, vol. 28) Rheinland-Verlag, Cologne 1979, ISBN 3-7927-0415-3 .
  • Theo Lücker: Düsseldorf - around Karlstadt. Verlag der Goethe-Buchhandlung, Düsseldorf 1990, ISBN 3-924331-21-9 .

Web links

Commons : Carsch-Haus in Düsseldorf  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ In: Online message from "FN FinanzNachrichten.de" . from June 15, 2015. Metro-Group-sells-Galeria-Kaufhof
  2. ↑ www.rp-online.de: Thorsten Breitkopf: Canadians are completely rebuilding Kaufhof Kö . March 12, 2016. Retrieved March 12, 2016.
  3. ↑ Express-Online from January 16, 2017. In: Traditionskaufhaus-macht-im-sommer-tight.
  4. ↑ WZ-Online from February 1, 2017. In: Carsch-Haus-three-floors-are-already-empty.
  5. ↑ www.rp-online.de Nicola Lange: Saks Off 5th soon in Düsseldorf. This is what the Nobel outlet looks like, which will come to Carsch-Haus in 2017 . July 1, 2016, accessed April 27, 2017.
  6. ↑ NRZ. In: Kaufhof mother relies on Düsseldorf noble outlet . June 8, 2017, Issue No. 131.
  7. ↑ Sale in Düsseldorf: The last bargains . April 16, 2019, accessed July 25, 2020
  8. ↑ HBC and SIGNA complete the merger of Galeria Kaufhof and Karstadt. In: signa.at . November 30, 2018, accessed December 2, 2018 .

Coordinates: 51 ° 13 ′ 30.9 ″  N , 6 ° 46 ′ 33.8 ″  E