Oberpollinger

In 1850, a master brewer from Kulmbach named Heiss acquired the brewery, which had also been a bar since 1842, and in 1853 he bought the Salzamt to the west.

The Hamburg department store company acquired M. J. Emden Söhne took over the property and had the building demolished.

Because it left a portion of the street space in the west to the city, it was given the right to combine the former six properties and build a department store throughout.

In 1904, the architect Max Littmann presented a design that he had to revise several times and had the new department store built on Neuhauser Strasse in just around ten months of construction, which opened on March 14, 1905.

In 1927, Rudolph Karstadt AG took over the entire company M. J. Emden Söhne also the Munich department store Oberpollinger; The traditional name was deliberately retained in order to signal continuity to customers.

In 2005 and 2006, the department store was completely rebuilt and an area of 13,600 square meters was added with an extension to the north; The architect was Ulrike Lauber.

[2] After the complete reopening in October 2006, the Oberpollinger, together with the Karstadt Haus Oberpollinger am Dom, which was structurally separate from the main building and almost 200 meters away, now comprised a sales area of 53,000 square meters and was therefore briefly behind the KaDeWe is the second largest department store in Germany.

In June 2011, Centrum and Signa Holding acquired the Oberpollinger and neighbouring Karstadt Sporthaus properties for €250 million.

[6] At the instigation of the Munich Artists' Commission, which advised the city council, the architect Max Littmann had to revise his designs several times in order not to dominate Neuhauser Straße with its small-scale development and the neighboring Bürgersaal.

As a reference to the Hamburg origins of the department store operators, two of the three gables have weather vanes in the shape of merchant ships.