Görlitz department store
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 Exterior view |
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| place | Goerlitz |
| architect | Carl Schmanns |
| Architectural style | Art Nouveau , steel frame construction |
| Construction year | 1912/1913 |
| Floor space | 10,000 m² |
| Coordinates | 51 ° 9 '10 " N , 14 ° 59' 15.2" E |
The Görlitz department store near the Frauenkirche in Görlitz is one of the best-preserved department stores from the beginning of the 20th century. It is built in Art Nouveau style and was operated as a department store until August 15, 2009. The city and a citizens' initiative tried to revitalize the department store, which in 2012 only housed a perfumery. In 2013, the entrepreneur Winfried Stöcker acquired the building, who would like to open a department store with a full range in it. The planned name Kaufhaus der Oberlausitz (KaDeO) alludes to the Berlin Kaufhaus des Westens (KaDeWe).
description
The department store has a total floor space of around 10,000 square meters, half of which is sales area. The rest is made up of office space (475 m²), storage space (2,750 m²) and other areas (1,160 m²). The lavishly designed interior with its self-supporting stairs and the ornamentally decorated glass dome attracted many visitors. There are also Art Nouveau ornaments on the supporting pillars. Large, richly decorated chandeliers hang from the ceiling.
History of the house
Construction of the first municipal department store in the German Empire
In 1717 the inn "Goldener Strauss" was located at the current location, which was later expanded into a hotel. The Görlitz magistrate wanted a department store at this point , based on the model of the Berlin department store Wertheim on Leipziger Platz . The architect Carl Schmanns from Potsdam provided the construction plans for the “Kaufhaus zum Strauss” . In 1912, after the hotel was demolished, the new building began as a steel frame structure , which was given a façade based on the desired model in Art Nouveau . After nine months of construction, the department store opened on September 30, 1913. The management of the house was in the hands of a small, medium-sized company.
1929 to 2010 with changing owners
Rudolph Karstadt AG acquired the department store in 1929 . The Karstadt owners were expropriated after the Second World War and the house came into the possession of the GDR from 1950 , which had it operated by the state HO . In 1958 it became a Centrum department store and was part of a whole chain of such department stores in several cities in the GDR. In 1984 the HO began restoring the historic facade and interior. After reunification , the Karstadt Group got the department store back. In the following restructuring of the company, it was placed in the Karstadt Kompakt division , which was sold to a British investment group, the Dawnay Day Group, on October 1, 2005. On March 1, 2007, these houses were given the historic name Hertie , as was the Görlitz department store. On May 20, 2009, Hertie owner Dawnay Day announced that it and all other Hertie branches would be closed by the end of July. The city was looking for a new investor for the building. On June 3, 2009, Chancellor Angela Merkel announced that the department store would be released from Hertie's bankruptcy estate and sold individually. A UK investor took it over, but had to give up again in 2010. So the listed building closed its gates. As of February 8, 2010, the building was under compulsory administration at the request of the city in order to solve the problem of continued use more quickly. In addition to reopening as a department store, a use as a museum was also under discussion. The vacant building was repeatedly a victim of vandalism . A citizens' initiative had even formed to save the department store, but found no solution.
range
The department store recently sold clothing, confectionery, furnishings and other product groups besides food. Due to the proximity to the border with Poland , all signage was written in two languages, and some of the sales staff were in two languages.
New start from 2013
Winfried Stöcker acquired the department store in June 2013 . It is to be operated again as a department store with a high quality range including groceries. The reopening was initially planned for October 2015, in August 2017 the building permit for the renovation was still being processed due to incompleteness.
The department store as a film set
The American film director Wes Anderson was looking for a real location for the film Grand Budapest Hotel and found what he was looking for in the Görlitz department store. The film team, including the actress Tilda Swinton and the actors Willem Dafoe and Ralph Fiennes , stayed at the Hotel Börse on Untermarkt for several months of filming . This led to a small economic boom, also for the craft firms that were used to fix the sets.
literature
- Andreas Bednarek, Hans-Jürgen stairs: Karstadt historical department store, Görlitz . 2nd Edition. Schnell and Steiner, Regensburg 2002, ISBN 3-7954-5935-4 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ derhandel.de: Professor Stöcker and his dream of a luxury department store . Retrieved August 18, 2014 .
- ↑ mdr.de: KaDeO - the department store in Görlitz . (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on July 12, 2015 ; Retrieved August 18, 2014 .
- ↑ goerlitz.de: Germany's most beautiful Art Nouveau department store . (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on February 17, 2013 ; Retrieved September 13, 2012 .
- ↑ a b c d e Frank Junghänel: The backdrop city . In: Berliner Zeitung from 25./26. January 2014
- ↑ OB is looking for investors for department store . In: Saxon newspaper .
- ↑ MDR : Görlitzer department store is to be sold individually ( Memento from November 18, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Page no longer available , search in web archives: Görlitzer department store is under forced administration
- ↑ Vandalism threatens Görlitz Art Nouveau department store . ( Page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: Saxon newspaper
- ^ New hope for Görlitz Art Nouveau department store ( memento from February 1, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), mdr.de, accessed on June 27, 2013
- ↑ kaufhaus-goerlitz.eu: All about department stores . (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on October 6, 2014 ; accessed on October 2, 2014 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ https://www.lr-online.de/lausitz/weisswasser/goerlitzer-jugendstil-kaufhaus-vor-sanierung_aid-4840433
