“Chic” No More

Founded in 1839 Rudolph Hertzog turned his small Manufactur-Waaren-Handlung store via mail order business for carpets, furniture and dress fabrics into Berlin’s biggest and most popular department store.

This landmarked building from the early 1900’s on Brüderstraße and Scharrenstraße is the only piece left of the complex. In 1949 Hertzog’s heirs lost the building to disposession.

Chic zu dritt, a typical Jugendmode youth fashion store in GDR times, and a shop for wedding apparel, closed in 1990.