Hartoch department store

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Düsseldorf, Hartoch department store postcard 1898
Hartoch department store shopping arcade, built by architect Richard Hultsch in 1905

The department store Gebr. Hartoch was a department store in the center of Düsseldorf's old town and branches .

history

The Jewish businessman Salomon Hartoch (1835–1899), born in Aachen, opened his first shop in Düsseldorf in 1872. In the following years the company continued to expand. In February 1894 the company "Gebrüder Hartoch" with the partners Simon Hartoch (1862-1921) and Theodor Hartoch (born 1870), both sons of Salomon and Rebecca, née Russ (1838-1883), were registered in the Düsseldorf register. In 1896 a new building was built by the architects Jacobs & Wehling . The Hartoch department store for short, manufactured and woolen goods was located at Bolkerstraße 19/21. The construction costs amounted to 110,000 marks. The three-story building featured a shop window system extending from the ground floor to the first floor. The 2nd floor was also completely glazed and had blind arcades . A dormer with Blend gables adorned the roof zone.

In 1905 the building was demolished and converted with the neighboring building at Bolkerstraße 17 to Flinger Straße 20 according to a design by architect Richard Hultsch into “a large department store with a through connection between Bolker and Flingerstrasse”. Hultsch designed the Art Nouveau facade and the glass passage. It was one of the "first shopping malls in Düsseldorf". The addresses of the “Gebrüder Hartoch” department store around 1908 were Bolkerstrasse 17, 19, 21, 27, Flinger Strasse 18/26 and Markt (Marktstrasse exit).

The resulting modern department store with Art Nouveau facade and glass passage was one of the largest in Europe at the time with 2500 m². As a result of the global economic crisis , the Hartoch family had to file for bankruptcy in 1932, which could not be averted even through a cooperation with the Woolworth Group.

There were further branches from 1895 at Friedrichstrasse 2 , at the corner of Graf-Adolf-Strasse, and from 1897 at Am Wehrhahn 34–36. The headquarters of the Rheinische Bahngesellschaft moved into the building of the Hartoch branch at Am Wehrhahn 34-36 in 1921 after renovation and remained there until 1939.

Only a few family members managed to flee from Nazi persecution abroad. The building in the old town was destroyed in World War II, creating the Schneider-Wibbel-Gasse, which opened in 1957, between Bolkerstraße and Flinger Straße . Woolworth operated a department store until 2007 on Flinger Strasse, with a new building on lots 22-28, between Schneider-Wibbel- and Kapuzinergasse. On October 12, 2007, a stele was erected at the corner of Flinger Strasse and Schneider-Wibbel-Gasse , commemorating the former owners of the Hartoch department store.

photos

  • Hartoch department store at Bolkerstrasse 19 to 21 in Düsseldorf, built by architects Hubert Jacobs and Gottfried Wehling in 1896

  • Floor plan with planned shopping arcade

  • Advertisement Gebrüder Hartoch Bolkerstrasse 17-19 and new building at Bolkerstrasse 20, 1894

  • Advertisement by the Hartoch brothers, 1902

  • Friedrichstrasse with Hartoch department store (left), after 1900

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Announcement: No. 1699 Company "Gebrüder Hartoch" in the company register, February 6, 1894 , in Düsseldorfer Volksblatt, No. 40, from February 12, 1894
  2. ^ A b Architects and Engineers Association in Düsseldorf (ed.): Düsseldorf and its buildings. L. Schwann, Düsseldorf 1904, p. 351, illustration no. 484 [Bolkerstraße 19/21].
  3. ^ Salomon Hartoch (short, manufactured and woolen goods) and Leopold Hartoch (commis), Bolkerstraße 17/19; Simon Hartoch, (businessman), Bolkerstr. 18 , in the address book of the city of Düsseldorf, 1891, p. 117
  4. ↑ Michael Brockerhof: Düsseldorf as it was , Droste-Verlag, Düsseldorf 2008, ISBN 978-3-7700-1277-0 , p. 42, 43.
  5. ^ Advertisement for department store Hartoch, in Bürger-Zeitung for Düsseldorf and the surrounding area (No. 292), from December 15, 1895 ub.uni-duesseldorf.de
  6. ^ Advertisement for department store Hartoch, 2nd branch Newly opened, in Bürger-Zeitung for Düsseldorf and the surrounding area (No. 212), from September 12, 1897 ub.uni-duesseldorf.de
  7. ^ Gebrüder Hartoch department store , in address book for the municipality of Düsseldorf, 1908, p. 228
  8. ↑ Minutes of the public part of the 4th meeting of District Representation 1 on May 12, 2006: Hartoch department store - oral report - submission 171 97/2006 (PDF p. 10)

Coordinates: 51 ° 13 ′ 33.9 ″  N , 6 ° 46 ′ 23 ″  E