DAStietz

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DAStietz cultural department store
Petrified trees in the courtyard
Event hall

DAStietz (pronounced "Das Tietz") is a cultural center in Chemnitz that is also called "Kulturkaufhaus". The former Tietz department store, built by Wilhelm Kreis in 1913 , has housed an adult education center , the Chemnitz City Library, the Chemnitz Museum of Natural History , the Neue Sächsische Galerie as well as several shops and cafés on around 20,000 square meters of commercial space since 2004 . The urban tenants occupy around 17,000 square meters. The Petrified Forest is located in the large atrium . "DAStietz" is a word mark registered by the city of Chemnitz since January 2004 .

history

The building was built by Wilhelm Kreis from 1912 to 1913 as a department store for H. & C. Tietz AG . The reinforced concrete - skeleton with his three atriums was very modern for its time and had an elaborate interior . At peak times, the department store employed up to 1200 employees and workers. Therefore, an extension designed by Erich Basarke was built as early as 1926–1927 .

The department store was closed by the Nazis on November 8, 1938, because the owner family Tietz and their managers were Jews . The director Hermann Fürstenheim was shot dead by SA and SS men in his house during the November pogroms in 1938 .

In the following time, the interior of the warehouse was rebuilt and mainly used for storage purposes. During the Second World War, there was a Wehrmacht naval camp in the basement . During the Allied bombing raids on Chemnitz on March 5, 1945, the building was hit and largely burned down, only Basarke's extension building remained intact. The naval warehouse in the basement, which was mainly used for clothing and which was spared from the fire, was subsequently looted by the civilian population.

After the end of the war, the remaining extension was used as a consumer department store . In 1957, the council of the district and the city council of Karl-Marx-Stadt under Max Müller and Walter Buchheim decided to rebuild the burned-out ruins. Were planned reconstruction and conversion into a modern state-owned department store until 1961. Running was the construction project with a volume of 13.2 million marks but only from 1960 to 1963. On 28 March 1963, the HO-department store "center" as Centrum Department store of HO opened. With 10,500 m² of sales area spread over 24 departments on four floors, it was one of the largest and most modern department stores in the GDR. The second branch in Chemnitz was the former Schocken department store in Chemnitz, and the product range was distributed across both branches.

With the fall of the Wall , the department store was acquired by Kaufhof AG and continued as a department store together with Schocken until 2001. The division of the departments between the two branches was adopted almost unchanged. The building was extensively renovated by 2004 and now serves as a cultural department store.

DAStietz in the left area of ​​the screen

Web links

Commons : Kaufhaus Tietz (Chemnitz)  - Collection of images

Individual evidence

  1. The persecution and murder of European Jews by National Socialist Germany 1933–1945. Volume 2: German Reich 1938 - August 1939. Edited by Susanne Heim . De Gruyter / Oldenbourg, Berlin / Boston 2009, ISBN 978-3-486-58523-0 , p. 520, urn : nbn: de: 101: 1-2016072924067 .
  2. Readers (of the Chemnitzer Wochenspiegel) report on their memories of the Tietz - looting in May 1945. In: kulturkaufhaus-tietz.de. Retrieved January 18, 2013 .
  3. ^ History of the department store. In: Kulturkaufhaus-tietz.de. Retrieved January 18, 2013 .

Coordinates: 50 ° 49 ′ 51.2 ″  N , 12 ° 55 ′ 24 ″  E