Company type | Department store |
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Industry | Retail |
Founded | 1863 Vienna, Austria |
Founder | August Herzmansky |
Fate | Renamed (1998) |
Headquarters | Vienna, Austria |
Key people | August Herzmansky Johann Herzmansky Eduard Herzmansky Johann Falnbigl Wilfried Falnbigl Max Delfiner |
Products | Clothing, footwear, bedding, furniture, jewelry, beauty products, and housewares |
Herzmansky was a department store in Vienna. It was founded by the Austrian Jewish merchant August Herzmansky in 1863.[1] The department store was located at Mariahilfer Strasse 26–30 / Stiftgasse 3 in the 7th district of Vienna, Neubau. A branch of the Peek & Cloppenburg chain has been in its place since 1998.
The store became the largest drapery/department store in the Austro-Hungarian Empire by 1892. After August's death, his nephews and later other relatives took over the management, with various expansions and renovations taking place over the years. The store was "Aryanized" during the Nazi period but was later returned to its rightful owner, Max Delfiner, in 1948. After several changes in ownership, mergers, and modernizations, the Herzmansky department store closed in 1997. The site was sold to the Düsseldorf fashion chain Peek & Cloppenburg in 1998, ending the Herzmansky department store's long history. The original building on Stiftgasse still stands, preserving its exterior appearance.