Department store - Ury Brothers

The brothers Moritz and Julius Ury founded the "Warenhaus Gebrüder Ury" on March 24, 1896. A comprehensive reconstruction in 1913/1914 turned the building into a magnificent six-story building with an atrium. The assortment of haberdashery, white goods and woolen goods was extensively expanded. Already in 1937 the brothers Moritz and Julius Ury were forced to leave the company. As a result of the so-called "Aryanization", in 1938 the Gebrüder Ury department store became the Textilmessehaus II with a flower store and a tax office. Moritz Ury died in exile in Switzerland in 1939. His brother Julius Ury fled to France and died a year later. The building at Königsplatz 15 and other buildings on the east and west sides of Königsplatz were destroyed in 1943 during World War 2.