Oberpollinger
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The Oberpollinger is a well known department store in the Neuhauser road in Munich . It is run by The KaDeWe Group GmbH (formerly Karstadt Premium GmbH) and is the largest department store in terms of area in southern Germany. The building was built in 1905 by Max Littmann in the style of historicism in the form of the neo-renaissance and is a listed building.
history
In the plan of today's building there were originally five narrow medieval town houses and on the eastern corner the building of the princely customs office, as can be seen from Sandtner's city model from 1570. In 1837 the customs office was converted into the ducal salt office. The neighboring house had been a brewery since 1556, which changed hands several times until it was taken over by the brewer Christoph Pollinger in 1584. His family, an established brewery dynasty, owned a second brewery near the Angerkloster , near Sendlinger Strasse. Soon the people of Munich made a distinction between the “lower” and the “upper” Pollinger. This is how the name "Oberpollinger" came about. In 1850 a master brewer from Kulmbach named Heiss bought the brewery, which had also been a Tafernwirtschaft since 1842 , and in 1853 he bought the salt office to the west. Since 1861, the two neighboring houses to the east with the Oberpollinger brewery and economy were also united in one hand.
The architecture, which is still essentially medieval despite all the renovations in the meantime, was replaced in 1891. The "Hôtel Oberpollinger" in the style of late classicism took over the name of the brewery and spanned the formerly four properties. The hotel was unsuccessful. It was sold in 1899, 1901 and 1903 and was foreclosed in late 1903 . The Hamburg department store company MJ Emden Söhne acquired the property and had the building demolished. The city made a point of widening the adjacent Herzog-Max-Straße (today Maxburgstraße) to the west. The company also bought the two medieval buildings to the east. In return for leaving part of the city as street space in the west, it was given the right to combine the formerly six plots and to develop a department store throughout.
The Oberpollinger GmbH department store was founded for this purpose. In 1904, the architect Max Littmann presented a design that he had to revise several times and had the new department store built on Neuhauser Strasse in just ten months and opened on March 14, 1905.
The Rudolph Karstadt AG took over in 1927 with the entire company MJ Emden Söhne also the Munich department store Oberpollinger; the traditional name was deliberately retained in order to signal continuity to customers. In 1931 the building was expanded and partially rebuilt by the architect Philipp Schaefer .
The department store was badly damaged in an air raid on January 8, 1945, but was partially reopened in 1947.
In 2005 and 2006 the department store was completely rebuilt and an area of 13,600 m² was added to the north with an extension to the north. After the complete reopening in October 2006, the Oberpollinger together with the "Karstadt Haus Oberpollinger am Dom", which was structurally separated from the main store and just under 200 meters away, now comprised a sales area of 53,000 m² and was thus shortly after the KaDeWe the second largest department store in Germany .
Since 2007, the former "Haus am Karlstor" no longer appears as "Karstadt Oberpollinger", but as "Oberpollinger Munich", until 2010 with the significantly smaller addition "Karstadt Premium Group". This addition has also been removed in order to clearly differentiate the brand from Karstadt branches. The former “Karstadt Haus Oberpollinger am Dom” was renamed “Karstadt Haus am Dom” at the same time. The sports store connected to “Oberpollinger” by a transition on the first floor and the basement was renamed from “Karstadt Oberpollinger Sport” to “Karstadt sports” at the beginning of 2008. At the end of March 2010, the “Haus am Dom” was finally closed.
In June 2011, a 50/50 joint venture between the Düsseldorf project developer Centrum (Uwe Reppegather) and Innsbruck-based Signa Holding (René Benko) acquired the properties in Oberpollinger and the neighboring Karstadt sports store from the Highstreet consortium for 250 million euros .
In September 2013 Signa Holding bought 75.1% of the shares in Karstadt Premium GmbH (Oberpollinger, KaDeWe in Berlin and Alsterhaus in Hamburg) and Karstadt Sports GmbH. In November Signa passed half of its stake, i.e. 37.55%, on to the Israeli entrepreneur Beny Steinmetz .
In October 2014, the Karstadt Premium GmbH stores were renamed The KaDeWe Group GmbH in order to separate them from the other Karstadt department stores and to emphasize that they belong to KaDeWe . In June 2015 Signa sold the majority stake (50.1%) to the Italian department store chain La Rinascente , which in turn is part of the Thai Central Group .
Original architecture
The architect Max Littmann had to revise his designs several times at the instigation of the “Munich Artists 'Commission”, which advised the city council, in order not to dominate Neuhauser Straße with its small-scale development and the neighboring citizens' hall . Finally, it was agreed to structure the facade and clad it with natural stone. After around ten months of construction, the new department store on Neuhauser Strasse was opened in 1905. As a reference to the Hamburg origin of the department store operator, there are weather flags in the form of merchant ships on two of the three gables .
Max Littmann designed the department store according to the most modern possibilities of its time. The iron skeleton structure consisted of girders that were aligned with a construction grid. They were clad with concrete for fire protection . The facades are clad with shell limestone , the decorative elements of the facades come from the sculptors Heinrich Düll and Georg Pezold .
Including the ground floor, the department store had four floors with sales areas, above that another floor for administration and a cellar with the staff cloakrooms, storage and loading areas.
Since the exterior had to be adapted to the surroundings, Littmann was unable to install large window fronts. Instead, he designed a central atrium with a glass dome in which the four passenger elevators were also arranged. The volume was 35,292 m³. The cost was given as 1,097,000 marks .
The department store today
The house is bundled together with the KaDeWe in Berlin and the Alsterhaus in Hamburg in The KaDeWe Group GmbH .
In "Oberpollinger" you will find household goods, a toy department, a large perfume and cosmetics area, luggage, watches & jewelry, stationery, clothing and high-priced accessories, and on the 5th floor next to the restaurant with roof terrace there is also a confectionery department with confectionery. In the course of the last few years after the renovation and the new building, the trading-up on a premium level was almost completed. There are now shops for Gucci , Christian Dior , Burberry , Louis Vuitton , Fendi , Prada and miu miu on the ground floor of the house .
literature
- The two new department stores in Munich. II. The Oberpollinger department store. In: Deutsche Bauzeitung , Volume 39, 1905, No. 56 (from July 15, 1905), urn : nbn: de: kobv: co1-opus-21528 , pp. 337–339. (with eleven pictures)
- Bavarian Architects and Engineers Association (Hrsg.): Munich and its buildings. Bruckmann, Munich 1912, p. 316 f.
- Oberpollinger. One name, one story. In: Karstadt Oberpollinger (Ed.), Uwe Faltermeier (Red.): Oberpollinger. 100 years of the Munich way of life 1905–2005. Chronicle on the occasion of the 100th anniversary. Munich 2005, p. 11.
- Heinrich Habel, Johannes Hallinger, Timm Weski: State capital Munich - center (= Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation [Hrsg.]: Monuments in Bavaria . Volume I.2 / 1 ). Karl M. Lipp Verlag, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-87490-586-2 , p. 690 f .
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Individual evidence
- ↑ The building history goes back to: Stadtarchiv München (Ed.): Häuserbuch der Stadt München, Volume II: Kreuz-Viertel. R. Oldenbourg Verlag, Munich 1960, pages 154-162.
- ^ Munich: Real estate sold by Oberpollinger and Karstadt-Sport , textilwirtschaft.de, June 8, 2011
- ↑ Focus: Cartel Office approves sale of Karstadt luxury and sports stores , October 29, 2013
- ↑ Spiegel online: Department store chain: Diamond billionaire joins Karstadt , November 21, 2013
- ↑ textilwirtschaft.de: Karstadt Premium becomes The KaDeWe Group ( Memento of the original dated December 30, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) 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.
- ^ Thomas Thieme: KaDeWe Group - Karstadt owner forges premium alliance. In: Stuttgarter Zeitung (online), June 9, 2015.
- ↑ New co-owner also wants KaDeWes in Vienna and Prague - half of KaDeWe is sold to Italian group. Rbb-online.de, June 9, 2015.
- ↑ Bavarian Architects and Engineers Association (ed.): Munich and its buildings. Bruckmann, Munich 1912, pages 316 f.
Coordinates: 48 ° 8 ′ 21 ″ N , 11 ° 34 ′ 3 ″ E
