KaDeWe | |
Industry | Retail |
Genre | Department store |
Founded | March 27, 1907 |
Founder | Adolf Jandorf |
Headquarters | |
Owner | KaDeWe Group |
Website | kadewe |
The Kaufhaus des Westens (German for 'Department Store of the West'), abbreviated to KaDeWe, is a Thai owned department store in Berlin, Germany. With over 60,000 square meters (650,000 sq ft) of retail space and more than 380,000 articles available, it is the second-largest department store in Europe after Harrods in London. It attracts 40,000 to 50,000 visitors every day.
The store is located on Tauentzienstraße, a major shopping street, between Wittenbergplatz and Breitscheidplatz, near the heart of former West Berlin. It is technically in the extreme northwest of the south Berlin neighborhood of Schöneberg.