Brann department store

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Brann department store in Zurich, part of 1912, later expanded and stocked

The department store Brann was a department store in Zurich that had other Swiss branches. Its assets now belong to the insurance group Swiss Life .

history

Julius Brann, then twenty years old, former managing director of a Zurich branch of the button department stores , founded his own department store there in 1896. A branch in Basel followed in 1897 and another in St. Gallen in 1899 .

In 1900, the Brann department store in Zurich was relocated to a larger new building on Bahnhofstrasse , which was created by the architect Richard Kuder . In 1908 the company was transformed from the previous legal form of a limited partnership into a stock corporation. 1910–1912, the Zurich department store was expanded considerably with a new building by Pflegehard and Haefeli . By 1929, other Brann department stores were also expanded several times and new branches were established in Switzerland. The Julius Brann AG was from the mid-1930s to the largest Swiss retail company with approximately 2,200 employees.

Oscar Weber took over the company in 1939 and renamed it Oscar Weber AG in 1941 . Between 1956 and 1966, further branches were opened in German-speaking Switzerland. In the mid-1970s, the group owned twelve Weber department stores and several subsidiaries under different names, such as the “Regina” department store in Dietikon . Together with the new Warenhaus AG (in German-speaking Switzerland under EPA and in the Romandie under UNIP was the corporate name) Oscar Weber AG under the umbrella of Zurich-based Oscar Weber Holding combines (OWH).

At the beginning of the 1980s, the Oscar Weber department stores disappeared from the townscape, mostly due to the conversion into EPA department stores. Another solution was found for the Brann house in 1983: the building was renovated and rented for 30 years to Maus Frères Holding , which opened the first Manor department store in Zurich, Vilan , in 1984 .

The department store was spared the following turbulence at the OWH for a long time: The owner families Buhofer, Weber and Stöckli separated the holding again in 1995: Neue Warenhaus AG became the owner of the EPA properties, while EPA's department store business was spun off again into EPA AG who was now formally only the tenant of the property. In the Oscar Weber AG , all properties have been combined, not by EPA were occupied. Due to close ties to the Schweizerische Rentenanstalt , OWH was sold to Rentenanstalt in mid-2001, which kept the real estate division, while the Buhofer family took over the EPA department store business and wanted to continue it on its own.

On February 1, 2002, Coop took over 40% of the share capital of EPA AG and announced in autumn that it wanted to convert the EPA department stores with the Coop department stores ( St. Annahof ) into uniform Coop City department stores . At the beginning of 2004, Coop also took over the remaining 60% of EPA's share capital and announced in mid-2004 about further closings of former EPA department stores.

The sale of Weber properties to today's Swiss Life also caught up with the Brann house in 2014. With the expiry of the original Weber-Maus lease, Swiss Life demanded roughly three times the rent for a continuation of the lease, with reference to the overpriced local rents on Bahnhofstrasse. In a first-instance ruling, the Zurich rental court held that the so-called offer from Swiss Life was unrealistic and should not be based on arbitrary, local rents, but local rents for department stores. At the end of September 2019, in the absence of an agreement with the landlord, Manor announced the move from its headquarters on Bahnhofstrasse. Manor paid around 6 million francs in rent for the property per year. Manor will move out at the end of January 2020. Swiss Life plans to start the two to three-year renovation in spring 2020.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ gebrueder-duerst.ch: Gang dur Alt-Züri: Names of old and former department stores in the city of Zurich. Accessed July 2, 2011.
  2. ↑ Alarich Rooch: Evaluation of the department store Bahnhofstrasse 75-79, Zurich (Manor) in its architectural and socio-spatial significance. 2014. ( PDF document with 7.2 MB)
  3. ↑ Erwin Denneberg: Concept and history of the department store. Private law relationships in Swiss department stores. Diss. Iur Bern. Zurich 1937, pp. 55–57.
  4. ↑ NZZ Online: Sale of Oscar Weber Holding. July 25, 2001
  5. ↑ Handelszeitung: The Epa is cleared out ( memento of the original from February 3, 2015 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. , July 25, 2001. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.pme.ch
  6. ↑ NZZ Online: Dispute about Manor goes into the next round. January 12, 2015.
  7. ↑ Michael von Ledebur: Manor closes its department store on Zurich's Bahnhofstrasse. In: NZZ online, 23 September 2019.
  8. ↑ Fabio Giger: Manor Bahnhofstrasse: Swiss Life's plans for conversion In: Blick.ch, September 28, 2019.

Coordinates: 47 ° 22 '29.5 "  N , 8 ° 32' 18.5"  E ; CH1903:  six hundred and eighty-three thousand and sixty-three  /  247696