Karstadt München Bahnhofplatz

The Karstadt Munich Station Square is a department store Karstadt department store GmbH in Munich.

It was built in the years 1904 to 1905 to designs by the Munich architect Max Littmann for the department store chain Hermann Tietz opposite the main station. In the design of the building itself Littmann, the historicist tastes served following, elements of the German Renaissance. The building was significantly expanded in the postwar period, with nearly 40,000 square meters of retail space, it is one of the largest department stores in Germany.

The building belonged to Hertie and was following the takeover of the company continue to be managed as such, especially since the Karstadt Oberpollinger is near. Since the company Hertie GmbH (formerly Karstadt Kompakt ) has revived the name " Hertie " on March 1, 2007, which is part of the Karstadt GmbH house in " Karstadt Munich Station Square " had to be renamed. The name change came gradually to a complete name change on September 27, 2007.