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The Geschwister Knopf department store was a department store group based in Karlsruhe and further branches in the Baden cities of Bruchsal , Mannheim , Pforzheim and Rastatt as well as in Luxembourg . Family members of the founder opened up other button department stores in southern Germany and Switzerland , including the S. Knopf department store in Freiburg im Breisgau . The group of companies existed until the forced " Aryanization " in 1938.
history
The button department store group emerged from a linen , linen and white goods shop in Kaiserstraße 147, the main shopping street in Karlsruhe. After Max Knopf and his sister Johanna took over the family business, he was able to add four more department stores to the main building in Karlsruhe by 1905.
From 1912 to 1914, a larger new building with Art Nouveau elements and a neoclassical gable was built by the architect Wilhelm Kreis at the corner of Kaiserstraße 147 / corner Lammstraße, the old company headquarters .
In the course of the Nazi persecution of Jews and the Aryanization of Jewish businesses, the Knopf family was expropriated in 1938 . On September 4, 1938, Friedrich Hoelscher KG took over the department store. In 1953 the building was bought by Karstadt .
literature
- Heinz Schmitt (Ed.): Jews in Karlsruhe. Contributions to their history up to the Nazi seizure of power. (= Publications of the Karlsruhe City Archives. 8). Badenia-Verlag, Karlsruhe 1988, ISBN 3-7617-0269-8 . Revised special edition: ibid. 1990, ISBN 3-7617-0268-X .
- Rolf Schmitt: From “Knopfe Eck” of the Knopf siblings to “Kaufhaus Schardt” to “Schneider” and now to “Jost”. In: bruchsal.org. September 18, 2010, archived from the original on February 1, 2016 .
- Thomas Frei: Looking for a specific button. In: Pforzheimer Zeitung . April 1, 2011 .
- John F. Müller: When the department store came to Rastatt. In: Badisches Tagblatt . January 29, 2011 .
- The Knopf family established a department store tradition. In: Baden's latest news . April 13, 2011.
- John F. Müller: "'s Knopfe-Eck" - documents and contemporary witnesses valuable for doctoral theses. In: The courier . September 15, 2011 .
- Susanne Räuchle: The rise and fall of a department store empire . In: morgenweb.de . February 9, 2011, archived from the original on December 18, 2015 (also as image file , 1.3 MB).
- Philipp Richter: Expropriated: button department store was Jewish. In: Schwäbische Zeitung . April 4, 2011 .
- Eberhard Grunsky: The former button department store (today Karstadt) in Karlsruhe. (pdf, 10.1 MB) In: Monument Preservation in Baden-Württemberg. 8th year 1979, issue 2, pp. 57-64 , archived from the original on December 12, 2013 .
Web links
- John F. Mueller: button department store. In: kaufhausknopf.blogspot.com/.