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The department store company of the family value home has its origins in the Hanseatic city Stralsund.
In the year 1852 "Manufaktur & mode goods business of the brothers opened Abraham and Theodor value home. likewise 1875 created Abraham and IDA value home a small haberdasher's shop in form of a hitting a corner shop (monk route/mill road) in Stralsund. 1884 were opened the first branch in Rostock. 1885 opened son George as well as its brothers Franz, William and wolf the first branch of the in Berlin. 1894 were also opened the first department store to freely laid out commodity and fixed prices in the Kreuzberger Oranienstrasse. It counts as principal firm of the department store company value home. Soon department stores at the Moritzplatz, at the king route as well as at the Rosenthaler road 27 in Berlin followed. 1897 followed the well-known building complex department store value home in the Leipziger road, sketched from the citizen of Berlin architect Alfred Messel (1896), it in the course of the years up to the Leipziger place were developed and were with an effective area of 106.000 m at that time the largest department store of Europe.
With the seizure of power by the national socialists a boycott took place against Jewish business. 1934 transferred George value home by donation its entire fortune of his not-Jewish Mrs. Ursula. But 1935 were classified the company Wertheim as "purely Jewish". 1937 came the expropriation by the national socialists. All Jewish managing directors became to dismiss. From department stores as of Hermann the Tietz "Hertie" became, from those of its cousin Leonhard Tietz "purchase yard", and from value home the "Awag" (general department store society AG). 1944 were destroyed the house at the Leipziger road by allied bombers. After the end of the Second World War, with the division of Germany, the houses were not taken over by the Soviets and late national properties, only at the Moritzplatz.
With a small business in the Wilmersdorfer road (today Karstadt) they started 1952 a new start. 1952 followed the new building in the lock road and 1971 followed the house at the cure prince dam. Center of the 80's was then taken over value home by the Hertie company. Since 1994 Hertie belongs, like also value home to the Karstadt source AG.
For several years the right controversy over the requirements for return on properties between the family value home and the company Karstadt source AG over valuable properties runs in the best layers Berlin. On 24 October 2005 the complaint was rejected with the industrial tribunal in Pennsylvania. Thus the negotiation in the USA certified and is not decided by the Federal Administrative Court in Leipzig probably still this year.
Value home at the cure prince dam and value home in the lock road are the two last still existing value home department stores.
The most beautiful department store of Germany value home Leipziger road, later also, was called Leipziger place a consumer temple, which competed with the later KaDeWe (department store of the west) at the Wittenbergplatz. Value home played Bon in the same league as the in Paris. The department store founders Rudolf Karstadt, E.Jandorf, Hermann Tietz and George value home had gotten the French-American invention of the large department store of the 1850er years to Germany. The house at the Leipziger place exceeded all past German department stores. The emperor supplied with its Cadinener Kachelmanufaktur at value home. The tiles decorated the walls and wells of the summer garden, the emperor to the inauguration of the department store had come. Had built the house Alfred Messel, in the years 1896 to 1912 (I. - iv. section), 1925 to 1926 followed the fifth section. The main front Leipziger road had 240 meters, additionally further 90 meters at the Leipziger place with world-well-known corner building. The department store reached in the depth up to the Vossstrasse on a property surface of 27.000 m It was with 112.000 m effective area and 70,000 m sales area the largest department store of Europe. Up to the today's day it was exceeded in Europe only of the department store Harrods in London. By an allied bomb attack at the end of November 1943 was met it and destroyed partially. It could have been repaired from the built volumes after the war, but were expropriated the value home houses in the east sector of Berlin. The outline of the ruin took place 1955/1956.
Already into the 1920er years acquired G. Wertheim at the lock road/corner Treitschkestrasse in Berlin Steglitz a large property with 30.000 m surface. It reached in the depth up to the Lepsiusstrasse.
Only after the Second World War this department store, which at the same time represents the first department store newly built in Berlin after the Second World War, because of the Steglitzer lock road/corner Treitschkestrasse was, in the time from 1950 to 1952 as viergeschossiger new building one established.
1969 took place a extension building lock road/corner sign horn route in a modern architectural style (lamella front). With this Fassadenverkleidung also the existing house was transformed.
At the sign horn route, in the connection to the extension building, a multi-storey car park was established. To large value home property behind the department store is the Treitschkepark, which is publicly accessible.
According to rumors the department store is to be closed and torn off, in order to create a Karstadt new building place.
Value home at the cure prince dam was built 1969 to 1971. In the eighties the department store with an extension of the front was again-arranged. The house is (after the KaDeWe and Karstadt at the Hermannplatz) third size the department store of the Karstadt source AG in Berlin. It is because of the central point of the cure prince dam close at the Breitscheidtplatz and at the memory church. Property extends over a surface enclosed by the roads cure prince dam, Augsburger road and climbing race. This value home has an effective area of 33000 m and a sales area of 28.500 m on 8 floors.
In the course of the reorganization of the KarstadtQuelle company, this, like also further Karstadt houses in Duesseldorf, is to be classified Essen, Munich, etc. (among other things also Hertie in Munich and the Alsterhaus in Hamburg), under a newer, elevated category, similarly the KaDeWe.
To the topic expropriations see also: Families Neckermann, Schickedanz
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