We would like to wish all association members, cooperation partners, and interested parties a happy festive season and a good start to 2024. Many people also like to spend the Christmas season visiting Christmas markets. During our visit to the Christmas market in Magdeburg, the Karstadt department store also blended into the bright city center.…Continue readingHappy holidays
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The series of novels about the Tietz family and their department stores is now complete, three books have been published by “Aufbau Taschenbuch”. The important thing is that the facts are correct. The author Andreas Schmidt (Susanne von Berg is his pseudonym) has composed a story around them that allows you to feel the time…Continue readingSeries of novels about the Tietz family completed
The multimedia audio tour on Jewish life and work in Stralsund has been migrated to the successful German platform “SmartGuide”. This means that this tour is linked to the platform’s other information offerings as well as to other Stralsund tours. To use the tour, the SmartGuide app must be installed on one’s smartphone. The tour…Continue readingTour on Jewish life and work in Stralsund migrated
At its location at Stadtbahnbogen 424, 10557 Berlin, the Buchstabenmuseum will be showing the exhibition “FINAL SALE – VOM KAUFHAUS INS MUSEUM” from February 25 to September 17, 2023. The exhibition tells the typographic and city-historical stories of the letters and shows the former importance of the department stores and department stores with their architecture.…Continue readingExhibit for exhibition “Finale Sale
The two advertising stamps depict the department store opened on September 15, 1913 at Ludwigstrasse 24 in Nuremberg, H. Tietz & Co. Nachf. Hermann and Oscar Tietz founded the first department store in northern Bavaria in Nuremberg on March 30, 1886. At the end of 1905, they sold their department store to the entrepreneur Ludwig…Continue readingAdvertising stamps acquired for collection
Starting in March 2023, the Berlin publishing house “Aufbau Taschenbuch” will launch a series of novels about the Tietz family and their department stores. The story of the first volume, “Kaufhaus – Zeit der Sehnsucht” (“Department Store – Time of Desire”), begins in Stralsund in 1879, when the young seamstress Flora and her fiancé Leonhard…Continue readingSeries of novels about the Tietz family published by Aufbau Verlag
On December 15, 2022, the “Cultural Concept STRALSUND 2034” was unanimously adopted by the city council of Stralsund. Our association was involved in the creation of the concept. The cultural concept contains five fields of action. The “Field of Action 1 – The Foundation: Cultural Heritage and Museums” also includes the development of the museums.…Continue readingCultural Concept Stralsund 2034
The friends’ association is participating in Spurwechsel Stralsund, an art and culture event that will take place on August 20 between the old town and the harbor. Several artists will show their works on the upper floor of the Wertheim. We have put together a slide show of historical photographs of the Wertheimhaus and are…Continue readingArt and culture event Spurwechsel Stralsund
The brothers Abraham and Theodor Wertheim opened a “Manufactur- und Modewarengeschäft” at Wasserstraße 14 in Stralsund 170 years ago on April 15, 1852. This store was the forerunner of the later Wertheim empire. Our association is taking this anniversary as an opportunity to once again present the exhibition “The Jewish merchant families in Stralsund”. It…Continue readingExhibition “The Jewish merchant families in Stralsund” at the Kreisvolkshochschule Stralsund
The old basic framework for our association website could no longer keep up with the growth of the content. Therefore, we used a new template and redesigned the site. Most importantly, all pages are now available in English. This is mainly to provide information about the association’s work to the international contacts we have gained…Continue readingNew website