Bernheimer-Haus

In 1887, he bought a small coffee house with a beer garden, which was owned and run by an Englishman, therefore called the English Café.

The beer garden covered the full width of the property from Lenbachplatz, and this is where the Bernheimer’s commercial building was built.

Bernheimer was well integrated in the highest circles of Munich society, and because of this, the grand opening of his office building was made in December 1889 by Prince Regent Luitpold.

During the Nazi dictatorship, the company was initially protected because Otto Bernheimer was an Honorary Consul of Mexico.

In 1938/39, after destruction and threats during the November Pogrom, the company was aryanized, and the Bernheimer family was initially detained in Dachau and then forced into exile.

The building was purchased by real estate broker Jürgen Schneider, who commissioned architect Alexander von Branca to modernize and remodel the inside, as well as start the extremely complicated restoration of the historically protected exterior.

In 1993, when Schneider's real estate empire collapsed because of massive fraud, Deutsche Bank took over as the main creditor for the Bernheimer Palace and allowed the completion of the renovations.