Object record
This image is a major visual witness to commercial erasure: the recognizable department-store block survives, but the Reichenbach identity has been replaced by HATEX/Mennigen branding. It supports the already documented business succession; it does not independently prove the transaction date, price, legal instrument or ownership of the real property.
SeriesCommercial objects and records
Transcription
HATEX HATEX MENNIGEN & CO. Halberstadt. Am Martiniplan
English translation
HATEX. HATEX, Mennigen & Co. Halberstadt, at Martiniplan.
Working English rendering prepared for the Reichenbach Family Archive from the visible postcard text.
- Archive reference
- RB-PHO-0334
- Date
- Listed as 1943; date not independently verified
- Medium
- Not yet recorded in the public catalog
- Physical dimensions
- Not yet recorded in the public catalog
- Digital image
- 873 × 576 pixels
- Evidence status
- Marketplace-sourced historical postcard lead; visually verified front, date and reverse not independently verified
- Uncertainty
- The seller’s photograph is watermarked and the reverse or postmark was not shown. The companion listing says the card was posted, but that cannot be checked without the reverse. The listing title misspells the company as ‘Meiningen’; the visible façade and the family handbills read ‘Mennigen & Co.’ The stated 1943 date remains a marketplace attribution until the reverse or another catalogued copy is examined.
- Source and provenance
- Public marketplace listing, eBay item 236708640984, viewed 26 August 2026. A companion Oldthing listing describes the card as posted (‘gelaufen’) and dated 1943; only the illustrated front was available for inspection.
- Custody history
- A separate custody history has not yet been recorded; see the source and credit fields.
- Credit
- Marketplace reference image via eBay seller listing 236708640984; postcard creator and publisher not yet identified
- Rights
- Source-linked research access copy of a watermarked marketplace image. Copyright and publication rights are not established; no reuse license is asserted.
- Image treatment
- Seller’s complete watermarked listing image preserved at its available 873 × 576 pixel resolution and converted from WebP to JPEG. No crop, watermark removal, reconstruction or generative alteration.
Read this image beside the administrative record
The postcard supplies visual evidence; the Landesarchiv leaf supplies the official administrative identification of Mennigen & Co. as the Aryanization successor.
Open the source record for HATEX, Mennigen & Co. postcard of the former Reichenbach store
Permanent citation
How to cite this object
Chicago-style suggested citation
Reichenbach Family Archive. “HATEX, Mennigen & Co. postcard of the former Reichenbach store.” Listed as 1943; date not independently verified. RB-PHO-0334. https://www.reichenbacharchive.org/objects/rb-pho-0334.
Permanent URLhttps://www.reichenbacharchive.org/objects/rb-pho-0334