19 stores · curated ORBIS register
German vintage is memory with a price tag: West Berlin furniture, Hamburg retro fashion, loopwheel tees knitted on 1920s machines. Kantstrasse Antiques gathers vintage furniture, art and curiosities in West Berlin. Stilbruch sorts retro fashion carefully in Hamburg's Schanze. Merz b Schwanen knits loopwheel tees on 1920s machines. Age shows first in the hardware: zippers, clasps, seams, the parts nobody photographs. Vintage rewards patience; the piece that finds you is usually the right one, and the one you hunted rarely is.
Aachen (Altstadt, Germany)
In Aachen's old town, Cafe van den Daele serves Aachener Printen, Reisfladen and traditional pastries among antique-furnished rooms. The cafe and confectioner also sends its specialties out through its own online shop.
Best for Historic café, Printen and Reisfladen
Berlin — Kreuzberg
Avenir is a Berlin label associated with contemporary German fashion and a Kreuzberg base.
Best for Curated vintage
Mitte (Heckmannhofe)
In the Heckmann courtyards off Oranienburger Strasse, the Bonbonmacherei boils and cuts old-fashioned hard candies by hand in front of visitors, using antique moulds and traditional recipes. Its signature Berliner Maiblatter, a woodruff-flavoured leaf sweet, revives a local Berlin specialty.
Best for Handmade traditional boiled sweets
Kantstrasse, Charlottenburg, Berlin
Kantstrasse Antiques brings together West Berlin shops and galleries selling vintage furniture, art, books and curiosities.
Best for Vintage furniture, art, books, and curiosities in West Berlin
Kastanienallee, Prenzlauer Berg, Berlin
Kastanienallee is a Prenzlauer Berg street lined with boutiques, cafés, bars and vintage shops. It is an area itinerary, not one merchant, so individual doors need separate records.
Best for Boutiques, cafés, bars, and vintage shops on Berlin's 'Casting Alley'
Kreuzberg / Online
Voo Store is a Kreuzberg concept space that filters Berlin through local and international fashion, modern design and visual culture. The Oranienstraße complex also includes Voo Deli for natural wine and food, Voo Space for gallery collaborations and an archive project mixing past-season and vintage pieces.
Best for Multi-brand fashion, books and design objects
Krämerbrücke 10, Erfurt
Furniture restorer Christian Wetzel has run this antiques shop at Krämerbrücke 10 since 1997, dealing in Lauscha glass, Thuringian porcelain and Art Nouveau and Art Deco pieces. Alongside jewellery, antique linens and lighting, the owners also buy in select older pieces.
Best for Lauscha glass, Thuringian porcelain and period antiques
Freiburg im Breisgau
Founded in 1842 as the estate of the State Wine Institute, this working winery farms 37 hectares across Freiburg and the Kaiserstuhl and pioneers disease-resistant PIWI grape varieties. Its Vinotheken pour Baden Rieslings, Pinots, rosé and Sekt alongside the institute's research vintages.
Best for Baden wine and PIWI varietals
Sternschanze
Karoviertel is a Hamburg neighbourhood of vintage shops, independent boutiques, bars and creative businesses. It is an area itinerary, not one merchant with a common inventory or checkout.
Best for Vintage shops and bars between Sternschanze and the Elbe
Sternschanze
Marktstraße is a Trendy shopping street in the Schanze with independent fashion, vintage shops, and design stores. At Sternschanze, the range centers on independent fashion, vintage shops, and design stores along the Schanze's Marktstraße.
Best for Independent fashion, vintage shops, and design stores along the Schanze's Marktstraße.
Sternschanze
Schanzenhöfe Market is a weekend market in the Schanzenhöfe with artisan food, crafts, and vintage goods. At Sternschanze, the range centers on artisan food, crafts, and vintage goods at this weekend Schanzenhofe market.
Best for Artisan food, crafts, and vintage goods at this weekend Schanzenhofe market
Sternschanze
Stilbruch is a vintage and second-hand clothing store in the Schanze with carefully curated retro fashion.
Best for Carefully curated retro fashion in the Schanze
Sternschanze
Secondhand department store run by Hamburg's municipal sanitation service, Stadtreinigung Hamburg; rescues furniture, clothing, books and electronics daily from bulky-waste collections and donations for resale, with an in-house repair workshop.
Best for Second-hand retro fashion curated in the Schanze
Stilbruch is Hamburg's secondhand department-store operation, run by the city's own sanitation authority, Stadtreinigung Hamburg, rather than a private vintage retailer. It marked its 25th anniversary in July 2026, putting its founding around 2001. The stores are stocked from what the operation intercepts daily — furniture, clothing, books, bicycles, kitchenware and electronics pulled from bulky-waste collections, recycling drop-off points and direct donations before they reach landfill — and an in-house workshop refurbishes items before they go back on the floor. The two confirmed Stilbruch locations open to shoppers are in Altona (Ruhrstraße 51) and Wandsbek (Helbingstraße 63), both operating six days a week with separate hours for dropping off goods. The model doubles as municipal waste diversion and affordable secondhand retail, funded through the same public sanitation budget that runs Hamburg's household waste collection.
Schwabing
Munich Schwabing gallery and antiques — a sprawling basement treasure trove of chandeliers, mirrors, frames, candlesticks, and collectible porcelain.
Best for Gallery and antiques in Schwabing since 1984
Kunst Oase is an independent antiques and art gallery located in Munich's Schwabing neighborhood at Hohenzollernstrasse, established in its current form in 1984 by owner Manfred Wambsganss. Wambsganss, originally trained as a freelance artist, took over the basement space to create a gallery for colleagues and has since built it into a comprehensive antiques destination spanning two levels. The street-level shop introduces visitors to paintings, candlesticks, decorative tableware, and ornamental pieces. A sprawling basement—accessible by descending past antique mirrors—holds an extensive inventory of vintage and period furnishings: more mirrors, picture frames, glassware, and collectible porcelain. Hundreds of antique lamps, chandeliers, and elaborate crystal lustres from multiple decades hang from the ceiling, creating a densely layered, visually immersive environment. The shop operates on a self-guided browsing model; Wambsganss, often seated on a corner bench, greets visitors warmly but allows customers to explore at their own pace without sales pressure. The space has become known for its abundance and the feeling of discovery.
Glockenbachviertel
Run by stylist Nora Khereddine from Munich's Glockenbachviertel, this concept store mixes vintage furniture, pottery and lifestyle objects — including pieces sourced from her travels in Morocco — with oak shelving and bowls handmade by carpenter Fritz Baumann in his Munich workshop.
Best for Minimalist design objects and locally made woodwork, curated in Munich
Nora Khereddine Objects is a concept store run by stylist and designer Nora Khereddine in Munich's Glockenbachviertel district. Rather than a conventional retail showroom, the space is arranged as a lived-in interior, mixing furniture, ceramics, vintage finds and lifestyle accessories in muted natural tones — beige, grey and broken white — so that fashion, interior objects and fragrance are presented together in one setting rather than as separate departments. Part of the stock comes from Khereddine's own travels in Morocco, brought back and worked into the store's rotating selection of vintage pieces. Alongside the sourced and vintage items, the store carries furniture made specifically for it, including simple oak shelves and bowls handmade by the carpenter and artist Fritz Baumann in his own Munich workshop — one of the shop's few directly commissioned, locally produced product lines rather than curated finds. The store has also hosted pop-up presentations from other independent brands, such as the jewelry label Lutz Morris, reflecting a curatorial approach that treats the shop as an ongoing changing exhibition of objects as much as a fixed retail inventory.
Solingen / Germany
Zafari on Kottendorfer Straße in Solingen-Ohligs sells vintage furniture alongside antiques and design objects.
Best for Vintage furniture and design objects
Flingern / Online
The Flingern showroom occupies old-building rooms and mixes design classics, vintage furniture, lighting and one-off objects. Its team also handles residential and commercial interiors, from colour and lighting plans through renovation and installation.
Best for Unique interior items, design objects; concept store in Flingern's creative district
Germany
The 1911 loopwheel revival — Swabian circular-knit shirts on original machines, Good Originals indeed.
Best for Loopwheel tees, 1920s machines; Loopwheeled Vintage Tees
Rüdesheim / Germany
Weingut Georg Breuer is a Rheingau estate in Rüdesheim known for its dry Rieslings from the Berg Schlossberg vineyard, whose label each vintage is designed by a different guest artist. The winery sells current releases through its vinotheque and hosts an annual Open House where visitors can taste the newest vintage alongside older reserves.
Best for Dry Berg Schlossberg Rieslings with a guest-artist label each vintage
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