Central department store

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former Central department store; The shop windows on the ground floor were rebuilt

The former Central department store is a listed residential building on Dresdner Straße 52 in the Freital district of Potschappel . It is located on Dresdner Straße not far from the train station.

description

The former department store is a four-storey corner building in the corner of Dresdner Strasse and the street “Am Bahnhof”. It is part of a row of houses along Dresdner Straße and extends from there to just before the Dresden – Werdau railway line . The building thus also forms the western end of the inner courtyard between the buildings at Dresdner Strasse 40–52 on this side of the street. The Potschappel Town Hall is only a few meters away . The former Central department store has the address Dresdner Straße 52 and is designated as one of the Potschappl cultural monuments due to its local historical and architectural importance .

history

In 1907, Alois Eckstein, born near Marienbad in 1883, bought an old building on a corner in Potschappel to open his own department store there. Eckstein was previously employed in Dresden. His shop opened on September 27, 1907 and offered a wide range of goods. Since there were only a few large shopping opportunities for the growing population of the Döhlen Basin, Eckstein quickly made large profits, so that from June 1913 he had a more representative and larger building built. The old department store was first torn down, followed by the opening of the “Central department store” in the new building in December. This extended over several floors and still offered gift items of all kinds for the Christmas business.

During the First World War Eckstein was called up for military service, during which time his wife ran the business. After 1924, the business situation, which was moderate due to inflation at the beginning of the decade, improved again, and Eckstein had up to 45 employees. When the National Socialists came to power, the Jewish Eckstein family soon had to flee Germany. The department store was taken over by Herbert Dahl. After the end of the Second World War , the HO took over the building, opened a shop in January 1949 and in 1952 the "HO-Kaufhaus Magnet". Previously, extensions were made to the house in the direction of the railway systems.

After the fall of the Wall, the NKD retail chain ran a shop in the former Central department store from 1990 to 2001, after which the complex was empty. A concept to use the building and the neighboring buildings for age-appropriate apartments failed in 2012 due to the high renovation costs. From the spring of 2013, a renovation began with a different concept, which provided for the furnishing of apartments. Since there is a high level of vacant retail space on Dresdner Strasse, these were also converted into living space by the beginning of 2014.

Web links

Commons : Dresdner Straße 52 (Freital)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Stadtverwaltung Freital (Hrsg.): Monuments in Freital - workshop report 3 of a municipal working group against forgetting . Freital 2013.
  2. ↑ The big, empty house on the main street . In: Saxon newspaper . August 3, 2009.
  3. ↑ Matthias Weigel: The project in the old department store is on hold . In: Saxon newspaper . June 29, 2012.
  4. ^ Matthias Weigel: Modern new building for Dresdner Straße . In: Saxon newspaper . April 25, 2013.

Coordinates: 51 ° 0 '48 .8 "  N , 13 ° 39' 48"  E