The four-storey corner building, with a high stepped gable in a Renaissance Revival style, was built in 1900 on the site of a 16th century Renaissance building.
The contract for the new building was awarded to Meissen architect Hans Klinke, who then implemented the project.
Of note is the adoption of the gable and oriel form and the original ornamental elements of the oriel from the previous building in the new oriel. In the upper balustrade area, there are medallions with masterful relief portraits of Emperor Karl V and Duke Georg of Saxony, both adorned with the Order of the Golden Fleece. In the lower balustrade area, there are the heraldic shields of Poland and Saxony (Duke Georg's wife being from the Polish royal family). On the narrow sides of the oriel windows are the heraldic shields of Saxony and Hesse and the portraits of Elector Moritz and his Hessian wife.
These reliefs were created in 1533 by Christoph Walter I, the most important sculptor of the early Renaissance in Saxony, commissioned by the building owner at the time, the rich cloth maker and councillor Sigismund Badehorn.
The new building, dating from 1900, was designed as a bank, which is still evident today in the figurative decoration on the façade: under the small, conical canopy at the left corner of the building is the figure of a patrician with a money bag in his right hand. However, the wide balcony and the two-storey loggia constructed at that time have disappeared and the magnificent painting on the gable has also been erased.
In the predecessor Renaissance building, Carl Kröber founded Meissen's first private bank "Bankhaus Kröber & Co." in 1866. In 1907, in the new building, his bank became the "Meissner Bank". He later entered into cooperation with Dresdner Bank and, later still, his house became a branch of the "Mitteldeutsche Privat-Bank". In 1920, the bank traded as "Commerz- und Privatbank AG, Filiale Meissen". Later, a branch of the GDR's state bank was located here until 1990. In 1991, it was reacquired by Dresdner Bank, which in the meantime had merged with Commerzbank.
The Louis bookshop was located at the corner of the building on the ground floor from 1900. It was first established on Leipziger Strasse in 1852 as a book and paper shop. Louis Mosche devoted himself solely to book selling and publishing from 1862 onwards. As old business advertisements reveal, he ran his "book, art and music shop, combined with a journal reading circle and lending library" here. Numerous historical plans, maps, town guides and Meissen address books originate from his publishing house.
After 1991, the building was thoroughly renovated.
