For more than 80 years, the name Lüke has stood for personal advice, individual service and high quality when it comes to shoes. That this is the case is due in no small part to the customers and employees of the shoe store at Schusterstraße 33. The shoe store with its former shoemaker's workshop was founded in September 1938 by Joseph Lüke (master shoemaker) and his wife Emmi Lüke. Shoe models were handmade to measure as well as ski and riding boots goat-sewn. To ensure this high quality of handwork, up to twenty shoemakers were employed in the company's own workshop. In the mid-50s, industrially produced shoe brands were added to the product range. Due to the progressing industrialization of shoe production, there were unfortunately only three employees in 1964 - two master shoemakers who supported Joseph Lüke in the workshop as well as the saleswoman, Mrs. Roswita Spittler (still happy and meanwhile more than 45 years in the business), who took care of the customers together with Mrs. Emmi Lüke and the son of the house and today's managing director Heinrich Lüke. Until the major reconstruction in 1980, only a small room with eight chairs on the first floor of the house was available for sales. The shoe store was located in a back room, the workshop in an annex in the inner courtyard. In today's men's department on the 1st floor of the house was the Lüke family's apartment, which also served as a lounge and "canteen".
For more than 80 years, the name Lüke has stood for personal advice, individual service and high quality when it comes to shoes. That this is the case is due in no small part to the customers and employees of the shoe store at Schusterstraße 33. The shoe store with its former shoemaker's workshop was founded in September 1938 by Joseph Lüke (master shoemaker) and his wife Emmi Lüke. Shoe models were handmade to measure as well as ski and riding boots goat-sewn. To ensure this high quality of handwork, up to twenty shoemakers were employed in the company's own workshop. In the mid-50s, industrially produced shoe brands were added to the product range. Due to the progressing industrialization of shoe production, there were unfortunately only three employees in 1964 - two master shoemakers who supported Joseph Lüke in the workshop as well as the saleswoman, Mrs. Roswita Spittler (still happy and meanwhile more than 45 years in the business), who took care of the customers together with Mrs. Emmi Lüke and the son of the house and today's managing director Heinrich Lüke. Up to the great All this has changed a lot in the course of the past 80 years. After Heinrich Lüke took over his parents' business on March 1, 1980, it was rebuilt and expanded piece by piece. In the same year, frescoes on ceilings and walls from the 15th century were discovered on the first floor. In the present men's department on the 1st floor, further wall frescoes of a knight's society of the Breisgau, starting from the 15th century, were uncovered in 1987. In 1994 the company was renamed to Schuhe Lüke GmbH with the managing directors Angelika and Heinrich Lüke. In 2006, the third generation became part of the management team and continues to keep the company on the road to success with new ideas. The former three employees have grown to over forty, who now work in five different stores and the e-commerce division. The former comfort shoe store has become a "fashion house in shoes", which is known far beyond the borders.
Schuhe Lüke GmbH in Schusterstrasse also includes the Ara Shop across the street, the Paul Green Shop in Schiffstrasse and the LLOYD Shop in Grünwälderstrasse in Freiburg. The focus of the shoe assortment for men and women at Schuhhaus Lüke is on fashionable and classic top qualities in the medium to upper price segment. The men's department with international shoe fashion, welted shoes and a Timberland Shop in Shop, which offers the current Timberland shoe and clothing collection, are located on the 1st floor. In the Ara Shop, which has been in existence since spring 2001, customers will find comfortable women's shoes in fashionable designs, and for men the Lloyd Shop, which opened in September 2001, offers men's shoes for every occasion - from elegant business shoes to fashionable trendsetters, sporty leisure shoes to super comfortable high-tech models. In the fall of 2009, the Paul Green brand store was opened and the LLOYD Shop was converted into a LLOYD Concept Store at a new location. Since 2000, the company has also been very active in the field of e-commerce and here too stands for high quality in footwear.
Through the close, sometimes decades-long cooperation with countless shoe manufacturers, the Lüke family has decided in 2018 for a new step on your business path and relaunched the exclusive own brand Lüke shoes. Only select models, of which the family business is convinced, are allowed to carry the name Lüke Schuhe. Behind these shoes are European shoe manufacturers with all their knowledge and experience. The greatest care goes into every seam and every piece of leather. The models of the new house brand Lüke Schuhe now fit perfectly into the exclusive selection of handmade shoe classics and modern models of selected manufacturers. In this way, the tradition and passion for shoe fashion is continued.