The new branch was completed in 1910 by the architect Johannes Kronfuß in the neo-baroque style and with its sculptural elements it artfully takes up the style of the neighbouring buildings – for example the baroque Martinskirche.
Under the National Socialist regime, the department store had to close and the Tietz family was forced to sell their company. After the end of the war the company was refounded and reopened under the name “Hertie”. This was to commemorate the founder of the HERrmann TIEtz department store chain. The Bamberg branch also opened its doors again in 1951 and is still in operation today – now under the name Karstadt.
18. April 2018
The new branch was completed in 1910 by the architect Johannes Kronfuß in the neo-baroque style and with its sculptural elements it artfully takes up the […]
18. April 2018
Its foundation can be traced back to the institution by the citizen Franz Münzmeister in 1352. The completion of the convent finally took place in 1356. […]
18. April 2018
Each of these curia has its own courtyard, as well as a chapel, after whose patron saint the whole courtyard was named. Most of the preserved […]
18. April 2018
The order could really gain a foothold with the construction of its institute house in 1717. The church was completed almost twenty years later, in 1737. […]
18. April 2018
The building itself is a post-classical town house built in 1871, which was rebuilt in 1906 to serve as an official bank house. The company history […]
18. April 2018
Exceptional are the portraits of Prince Rupprecht and Princess Marie Gabriele, who married in 1900 and thus became the last Bavarian Crown Couple, as well as […]
18. April 2018
Until the 18th century, the monastery served the Bamberg Dominicans as a religious house and for representative purposes. With the secularization the Franciscans also lost their […]
18. April 2018
Until the middle of the 19th century, the area of today’s square was considered as a flood area and therefore contained only comparatively simple houses. Rifle […]
18. April 2018
Apparently the rise of the groundwater had caused the coffins to stand in the water and the deceased did not rot properly as a result. Due […]
