Wertheim (Department Store) (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Wertheim was a large department store chain in pre-WWII Germany. It was founded by Georg Wertheim and operated four stores in Berlin, one in Rostock, one in Stralsund (where it had been founded), and one in Breslau.The chain's most famous store, on Leipziger Platz in Berlin, was constructed in 1896. It featured 83 elevators and a glass-roofed atrium, and was one of the three largest department stores (Warenh user) in Berlin, the others being Hermann Tietz and Kaufhaus des Westens. Brian Ladd called it "the crown jewel of the main shopping street." 1] The building was badly damaged in WWII and fell in the no man's land betwewen East and West Berlin after the division of the city. The ruins were demolished in the 1950s.