Luxury and leather goods store Albert Rosenhain

The Leipziger Straße was the shopping mile of Berlin around 1900. Due to the construction of the splinted horse-drawn tramway and the introduction of electric lighting, it had developed into a booming shopping street in the growing metropolis since the 1880s. It was home to department stores as well as numerous specialized and well-run retail stores that sought to satisfy the consumer desires of Berlin's and international clientele and vied for their favor. Almost the entire Leipziger Strasse was completely destroyed in a bombing raid in 1943. Today, nothing there reminds us of the flourishing Berlin retail trade before the war. Some of the stores of Jewish owners, which were located in Leipziger Straße until the 1930s, we present here.