Herzmansky

Herzmansky

Company type	Department store
Industry	Retail
Founded	1863 Vienna, Austria
Founder	August Herzmansky [de]
Fate	Renamed (1998)
Headquarters	Vienna, Austria
Key people	August Herzmansky Johann Herzmansky Eduard Herzmansky Johann Falnbigl Wilfried Falnbigl Max Delfiner
Products	Clothing, footwear, bedding, furniture, jewelry, beauty products, and housewares

Herzmansky was a department store in Vienna. It was founded by the Austrian Jewish merchant August Herzmansky [de] in 1863.^[1] The department store was located at Mariahilfer Strasse 26–30 / Stiftgasse 3 in the 7th district of Vienna, Neubau. A branch of the Peek & Cloppenburg chain has been in its place since 1998.

The store became the largest drapery/department store in the Austro-Hungarian Empire by 1892. After August's death, his nephews and later other relatives took over the management, with various expansions and renovations taking place over the years. The store was "Aryanized" during the Nazi period but was later returned to its rightful owner, Max Delfiner, in 1948. After several changes in ownership, mergers, and modernizations, the Herzmansky department store closed in 1997. The site was sold to the Düsseldorf fashion chain Peek & Cloppenburg in 1998, ending the Herzmansky department store's long history. The original building on Stiftgasse still stands, preserving its exterior appearance.