Elsbach & Frank

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The former department store zum Stern von Elsbach und Frank, used here as a branch of the clothing chain Zara

Elsbach & Frank was a textile retail business founded in the 19th century in Hanover . The department store built by this company on the corner plot of Osterstraße / Große Packhofstraße, known as Kaufhaus zum Stern , is the only building in the city center that survived the air raids on Hanover in World War II without major damage. The building is now used by the Spanish fashion chain Zara .

history

Advertisement with reference to the new building in the Hannoversche Anzeiger from 1913
Relief decoration of the facade with reference to tailoring
This fabric carrier lacks bird protection

In 1889 the merchants Ferdinand Elsbach and Julius Frank founded their specialty shop , initially only for men's and boys' clothing, some of which they had made in their own tailor's shop .

In 1910 the company expanded: The managing director Josef Adamski founded a branch in Hildesheim , Hoher Weg 8. Adamski took over this branch in 1933, it is now run under the company Adamski GmbH & Co. KG .

1910–1911, the architect Rudolf Friedrich built the new Zum Stern department store for the main store in Hanover , which in 1931 received an extension.

In 1913 one of the company's slogans was
“What young people, men, sportsmen, hunters and tourists need is on offer” , it
was later expanded to include women's clothing.

After Ferdinand Elsbach's death in 1931, the company apparently went bankrupt in the course of the global economic crisis and was taken over by the Otto Werner clothing store in 1933 after a settlement .

See also

  • Elsbach (company) , founded in 1873 on Brüderstraße in Herford by the Jewish brothers Josef and Hermann Elsbach and entered in the commercial register in 1875 as the Herford shirt factory J. Elsbach & Co.

literature

  • Festschrift for the town hall consecration. 1913, p. 18.
  • Hanoverian heads from administration, business, art and literature. Vol. 1-2, n.d. (1929).
  • Waldemar R. Röhrbein : Elsbach & Frank, "Kaufhaus zum Stern". In: Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein (eds.) U. a .: City Lexicon Hanover . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2009, ISBN 978-3-89993-662-9 , p. 159.
  • Simon Benne: The house with the round corner / A facade with a past: Zara is converting the former Otto Werner building on a grand scale. In: Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung of May 6, 2016, p. 15

Web links

Commons : Elsbach & Frank  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

References and comments

  1. ↑ a b c d e Waldemar R. Röhrbein: Elsbach & Frank ... (see literature)
  2. ↑ see this photo
  3. ^ Information from the current managing director of Adamski in Hildesheim; see also Chronicle of Adamski
  4. ↑ Marianne Adamski, Thomas Adamski: Chronicle of Adamski GmbH & Co KG in Hildesheim
  5. ↑ possibly a misspelling; possibly the architect Rudolf Friedrichs is meant, who built several commercial buildings in Hanover around 1910. Cf. Gerd Weiß, Walter Wulf (editor): Business and department stores. In: City of Hanover, Part 2. (= Monument Topography Federal Republic of Germany , Architectural Monuments in Lower Saxony , Vol. 10.2.) ISBN 3-528-06208-8 , p. 22.
  6. ↑ Peter Schulze : Elsbach, Ferdinand. In: Dirk Böttcher, Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein, Hugo Thielen : Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2002, ISBN 3-87706-706-9 , p. 108; online through google books
  7. ↑ according to previously unchecked source : Gustav Schierholz: Geschichte der Herford Industry , Herford approx. 1952, pp. 68–70

Coordinates: 52 ° 22 ′ 23.1 "  N , 9 ° 44 ′ 13.4"  E