Historischer Friseursalon Altenburg, Historic barber shop in Altenburg, Germany

The Historischer Friseursalon Altenburg is a preserved barber shop at Pauritzer Strasse 2, entered on the left beside a shop window. Its two connected rooms, a women's salon and a men's salon, retain complete 1920s furnishings: marble dressing tables, wall panelling, mirrors, barber chairs, lamps, hair clippers, hot-wave machines, a water boiler, advertising signs and an old illuminated sign.

The building was originally constructed in 1537 and received a baroque facade and an additional floor during the 18th or 19th century. The barber shop itself operated from 1926 until 1966 under the ownership of Arthur Grosse.

Arthur Grosse bought the house in 1926 and set up a salon with a women's room and a men's room connected by a door, one behind the other. The shop is entered on the left, next to a display window. Grosse deregistered his business in 1966, and the salon then survived a "Sleeping Beauty" slumber of over 35 years.

The salon is located at Pauritzer Strasse 2 and allows visitors to step into an authentic hairdressing setting from the 1920s. The interior is fully preserved, making it easy to understand how the shop operated on a daily basis.

The salon gained wider fame through an April 2010 feature in Playboy magazine, decades after Arthur Grosse closed the shop in 1966. The complete 1920s inventory, from marble dressing tables to an old illuminated sign, survived because the premises stayed shut for over 35 years. When the last owner died in 2001, heirs wanted to clear the contents, but the lower heritage authority alerted the Altenburg hairdressers' guild, which secured their survival; the guild bought the property on 7 March 2002.