Görlitz Department Store
Kaufhaus Görlitz
An Art Nouveau department store opened in 1913; its glass-domed atrium inspired the lobby of The Grand Budapest Hotel.
The department store opened in 1913. Four storeys of galleries surround a central atrium with a stained-glass roof, making it one of the best-preserved Art Nouveau department stores in Germany. It closed in 2009, and in 2013 the entrepreneur Stecker acquired it with plans to convert it into the Upper Lusatia Department Store. A conversion plan was approved at the end of 2025, but it has not yet reopened. The Grand Budapest Hotel used the building to build its hotel lobby set. Normally only the exterior can be seen, but a guided tour into the atrium is held on a few dates each month; check bookings on the official website kaufhaus-goerlitz.eu.
Opening hours
Exterior open all day; interior only on guided-tour days
Nearby sights
- Senckenberg Museum of Natural History
- Obermarkt & Holy Trinity Church
- Reichenbach Tower
- Kaisertrutz
- Görlitz Synagogue
- Silesian Museum
- Untermarkt & Town Hall
- Baroque House Neißstraße 30