Bauhaus AG is a German pan-European retail chain offering products for home improvement, gardening, and workshop.

[1] It also operates in other 19 European countries, including Austria, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Croatia, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Hungary, Iceland, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and Turkey.

In addition to its range of roughly 25,000 products, which were originally available in self-service, Bauhaus offered customisable sizing for wooden panels, a delivery service and a customer car park directly in front of the entrance.

At the end of November 2013, it was announced that Bauhaus intended to acquire 24 Max Bahr branches,[5] a German home improvement retailer with approximately 1300 employees.

Established as an unlisted stock corporation, Bauhaus was primarily owned by German billionaire Heinz G. Baus until his passing in 2016.

Baus' family relocated from Mannheim to Lake Thun in the 1970s and the group is currently managed from the Swiss canton of Bern.

They are the official Bauhaus logo (the so-called “conglomerate”, from Latin, means “clustered together”) and in many places form the entrance portal of the branches.

The current average sales area of the newly opened branches is 20,000 square meters with a mostly elongated facade shape.

Some of the hardware stores in Germany are located in historic railway workshop halls in cities such as Berlin, Hamburg,[10]Munich.

Subsequently, betriebsratsverseucht was chosen as the German Un-Word of the Year by a jury of linguistic scholars, who thus criticized the presumed inhuman attitude of the Bauhaus management towards its subordinates.