Alsberg department store (Bochum)

The Alsberg department store, today called Kaufhaus Kortum, is built in the years 1913-1921 by the Cologne department store company of the Jewish Alsberg brothers. The department store opened in 1921 and was at that time the first department store in Bochum with 31 shop windows and 64 sales departments.
. In the course of the Aryanization in 1933 the name Alsberg disappeared from the public. The department store was now named after the doctor and poet Karl Arnold Kortum. The house remained in the ownership of the Alsberg family until 1938.
During World War II, the exterior facade of the department store was severely damaged, which was reconstructed after the war. Today the house still stands and provides office and retail space in the city.