Potsdam department store
The Potsdam department store is a department store in the center of Potsdam , Brandenburger Straße 49-52.
The building was erected in 1905 as a new building for the F. Schwarz department store . Schwarz sold his retail company, founded in 1888 as a manufactured goods store, in 1906 to the merchant Hermann Ploschitzki, who continued the department store under the old name and in 1910 formed an interest group to jointly buy goods with the department store company M. Hirsch, Lindemann & Co. of the merchant Leopold Lindemann (* 1857) merged. Since the conversion to Lindemann & Co. AG in 1922, the Potsdamer Haus was apparently also called the Lindemann department store . In 1928/1929 the house on the adjoining property of the former Senst brewery received a large extension to Jägerstraße 13/14. In 1929 Lindemann & Co. AG merged with Rudolph Karstadt AG , and the Potsdam house had also borne this name since 1931.
Under the influence of the largely anti-modern cultural understanding of National Socialism, the facade of the department store on Brandenburger Strasse appeared to be scale-breaking because of its length and, because of its art nouveau- influenced architectural decorations, unsuitable for the Biedermeier and classicist building culture in Potsdam. While the dimensions of the building could not be reduced without considerable economic damage to the owners and users, at least the façade was cleared of the negatively assessed details: in 1937 all decorative elements were removed and the roof extensions dismantled.
After the end of the Second World War, the Karstadt department stores in the Soviet occupation zone were expropriated; during the GDR era, the Potsdamer Haus housed a department store belonging to the Konsument chain , which was initially operated by Horten AG after reunification before being taken over by Karstadt again. After a roof fire in 1995, the house was closed.
From autumn 2003 the vacant building was renovated for a sum of 50 million euros, with larger parts being demolished and rebuilt. After 16 months of construction, a Karstadt branch opened again on March 10, 2005, the year of the 100th anniversary, under the name Stadtpalais Potsdam . During the renovation, only the listed facade (largely in the simplified version from 1937) and the imposing atrium, which with its color-glazed light ceiling next to the Karstadt department store in Görlitz, are the last building element of its kind from this era of department store architecture is.
literature
- Armin Hanson: Preservation of monuments and cityscape in Potsdam 1918–1945. Lukas Verlag, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-86732-109-9 , pp. 312-315.
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Footnotes
- ↑ Hermann Ploschitzki died in 1932. His wife Hansi Ploschitzki (1887 / 1888–1981) inherited the million dollar fortune that the Gestapo confiscated before emigrating to Hollywood. There she married again and built a doll factory under the name Hansi Share .
Coordinates: 52 ° 24 ′ 3 ″ N , 13 ° 3 ′ 18 ″ E