Grain and mountain
The bookstore Korn & Berg was founded in 1531 by Hans and Elsbeth Ott in Nuremberg on the Herrenmarkt, today's main market .
history
In 1793 the bookstore was taken over by Ernst Christoph Grattenauer , the publisher of the newspapers Neue Nürnbergische learned Zeitung and Theatralisches Wochenblatt .
In 1834 Christian Heinrich Korn took over the business at Hauptmarkt 9 from his predecessor and named it Friedrich Kornsche Buchhandlung in honor of his father . In 1884 Juliane Wilhelmine Korn inherited her father Daniel's bookstore. In 1909 her son Alfred Korn took over the business which his sister Julia ran during the First World War . In 1919 Oskar Berg joined the bookstore, which from that point on has operated as the Korn & Berg OHG bookstore .
In 1945 the commercial building was completely destroyed by the effects of the war, in 1952 Alfred Korn's widow Tilly Korn and Oskar Berg reopened a shop on the main market, which was taken over by Wolf Dietrich Berg from 1960.
In 1974, the bookstore was University of Erlangen-Nuremberg for university bookstore named.
In 2004 Thomas and Irene Kistner, the owners of the Edelmann bookstore in Nuremberg (also a bookstore with a long tradition), bought Korn & Berg.
Four employees are permanently employed in the traditional bookstore, which was extensively renovated in 2006. Reproductions of Dürer's paintings can be seen on the ceiling .
literature
- Marion Voigt (Ed.): Lust for books - Nuremberg for readers , Nuremberg: Verlag Tom Deuerlein 2005. ISBN 3-9807486-1-8
- Elisabeth Bauer: The history of the Korn & Berg publishing house in Nuremberg (Master's thesis in the Philosophical Faculty I of the Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg), Großhabersdorf 1990.
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Coordinates: 49 ° 27 ′ 13.7 " N , 11 ° 4 ′ 36" E