Department store Stiasny

The property on Salomonstra;e in the city center of Görlitz was built around 1883 with a residential and commercial building including a rear building. The cloth manufacturer Louis Stiasny had the rear building rebuilt in 1893. He used it as a salesroom for the scarves, bags, neckerchiefs and other accessories for ladies that he produced. Because of the building situation, only the courtyard side could be provided with windows, Stiasny had a glass-roofed atrium designed. This is or was surrounded on the first and second floors by galleries with wrought-iron railings with geometric and floral motifs. The gallery-like design of the upper floors, the glazed atrium and the elaborate staircase are reminiscent of the building of the G&aumlitz Strauss department store, the larger of the two Art Nouveau department stores on Demianiplatz. Both are outstanding testimonies of upscale sales culture from the imperial era