Beginning in May 1941, Dresden’s city administration attempted to establish stocks of household goods for those affected by the air raids. As early as the second year of the war the city administration assumed that the furnishings destroyed in the air raids could hardly be replaced by the goods on offer in the shops and that affected persons would therefore require assistance. Beginning in March 1942, the assets belonging to deported Jews were used as one cheap source of supply.
After procurement difficulties were further eased by deliveries of household goods salvaged from the devastated cities of the Rhineland in 1943, the provision of necessary storage space proved to be quite a problem. All suitable storage facilities had been occupied since the beginning of the war and the stocking of household goods was deemed to be a low priority.
Nevertheless, a few hundred sets of household furnishings were able to be stored. The largest of the approximately one dozen storerooms used for this purpose was located on the municipal property at Königsbrückner Straße 117. The 590 m2 storage space which was made available here was used to store a part of the household furnishings salvaged after the air raids.

Marked in 2001