The life discounter Aldi closes its head office in Essen.
The branch number 1 closes on Saturday.
Essen
- After 101 years of grocery trading in the birthplace of
Aldi
* founders
Karl
and
Theo
Albrecht
, the group of companies closes its branch in the Essen headquarters.
The now much too small shop in Huestraße 89 will be closed on Saturday at 4 p.m., said a spokesman for
Aldi
Nord
on Friday.
On December 10th at 7:00 a.m., a new branch that is more than twice the size will open in the immediate vicinity.
The tradition will be pointed out with pictures and texts in the new branch.
The internal name “Branch number 1” will also be transferred to the new store.
Aldi: In the beginning there was a baked goods store
The first shop of the Albrecht entrepreneurial family was initially a bakery store, which the later parents of Karl and Theo opened in 1913 in what is now the Essen district of
Schonnebeck
.
It was located at today's Huestraße 87, in Anna Albrecht's parents' house.
In the spring of 1919, the Albrechts moved their business to the neighboring residential and commercial building number 89, which the couple bought.
They called the new shop “Karl Albrecht's grocery store”.
The sons Karl and Theo were born and raised in the house.
The first discount branch under the name
Aldi
opened in Dortmund in 1962.
It was the cornerstone for the meteoric rise of the company that made the two Albrecht tribes the richest families in Germany.
Aldi Süd only opened its largest store to date at the company's headquarters in Mülheim at the beginning of the month.
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The Aldi branch in the birthplace of Aldi founders Karl and Theo Albrecht in the Schonnebeck district.
The now much too small shop at Huestraße 89 will be closed on Saturday.
© Daniel Koke / dpa
According to the spokesman, the parent company at Huestraße 89 remains in the possession of the
Aldi
Group.
The commercial space should get new users.
(
dpa / utz
)
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