Wertheim department store (Wroclaw)
The Wertheim department store is a former commercial building in downtown Wroclaw . Today it is run as the Renoma department store and is located on Ulica Świdnicka at the corner of Plac Tadeusza Kościuszki .
history
The Wertheim Group built the department store from 1928 to 1930 according to plans by the architect Hermann Dernburg on Schweidnitzer Strasse and Tauentzienplatz . It had the first escalators in Silesia and was considered the largest department store in the city. In the course of Germany-wide aryanization, the National Socialists smashed the group in 1937. The department store went into the hands of the Allgemeine Warenhaus Gesellschaft (AWG). During the Battle of Wroclaw in 1945, the interior of the house burned out, with the facade and steel structure being preserved.
The department store was reopened in 1948 as a “General Department Store” (Polish: Powszechny Dom Towarow , or PeDeT for short ) for the “Exhibition of the Regained Territories” . A grocery store was located on the first floor. Later, the Polish newspaper Słowo polskie held a competition to rename the department store. The department store was then given its current name Renoma . The department store, which was listed in 1977, was privatized in the late 1990s and modernized and rebuilt between 1998 and 1999.
Another renovation between 2005 and 2009 was combined with a modern extension to the east. The new department store was able to reopen on April 25, 2009.
Web links
- Renoma Department Store Website (Polish)
- History of the department store
- Historical recordings (Polish)
literature
- Klaus Klöppel: Breslau - Lower Silesia and its millennial capital . Trescher Verlag, Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3-89794-256-1 , p. 135
Coordinates: 51 ° 6 ′ 13 ″ N , 17 ° 1 ′ 52 ″ E