Ministry of Transport (Munich)
The building for the Bavarian Ministry of Transport was located in Munich at Arnulfstrasse 9. Parts of the wings of the building that still existed after the destruction of the Second World War are used by a branch of the Federal Railway Office .
building
The elongated, slightly concave neo-baroque tuff stone building with a rich plastic structure was built between 1906 and 1913 on both sides of Arnulfstraße, the two wings of the building were connected by a gate extending across the street. The extensive northern part of the building was grouped around a 72 meter high dome, the tallest in the city. The architect was Carl Hocheder . The representative building should also demonstrate Bavaria's right to reserve its own railroad and post office in the German Empire . The sculpture The Mourners has been located in the domed hall since 1927 .
In the course of the reconstruction after 1945, individual tracts of the heavily war-damaged complex were removed: In 1959, the dome, visible from afar, disappeared, and in 1966 the gate construction also fell victim to the increasing volume of traffic on Arnulfstrasse .
use
In addition to the ministry, other facilities were housed in the building complex. In the northeast, the railway post office, which was built about 1910 and about 350 m long was post-Munich subway to the main train station was connected. In the south-east corner was the Munich 2 post office, which was named Hopfenpost after the adjacent Hopfenstrasse .
On March 30, 1924, Bayerischer Rundfunk started broadcasting its first broadcast, heralding the age of broadcasting in Bavaria: it was broadcast from the broadcasting hall of the Ministry of Transport and wirelessly into the Auditorium Maximum of the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich .
From 1924 the Bavarian group administration of the Deutsche Reichsbahn was housed in the building of the Ministry of Transport . After the group administration was dissolved, the Reichsbahndirektion Munich moved into the building in 1933 .
Hop mail
Only the southern part of the Hocheder building on Arnulfstrasse with the Federal Railway Authority and the western wing of the northern part have been preserved. It is rented out as an office building under the name "Alte Hopfenpost". A modern business building, also named Hopfenpost, was erected on the central and eastern part of the property. It combines retail with office space.
literature
- Karl Hocheder: The new service building of the Bavarian Ministry of Transport in Munich. In: Zentralblatt der Bauverwaltung , vol. 33, 1913, pp. 206–210 ( digitized version of the central and regional library in Berlin ) and p. 218–220 ( digitized version ).
- Carl Hocheder: The new building of the KB Transport Ministry in Munich. Wasmuth, Berlin 1916.
Web links
- Hopfenpost.de
- Monument protection entry under the number D-1-62-000-404 (Arnulfstraße) and D-1-62-000-2834 (Hopfenstraße) (geodaten.bayern.de)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Klaus-Dieter Korhammer, Armin Franzke, Ernst Rudolph: Turntable of the South. Munich railway junction . Ed .: Peter Lisson . Hestra-Verlag, Darmstadt 1991, ISBN 3-7771-0236-9 , p. 138 .
Coordinates: 48 ° 8 ′ 31.1 ″ N , 11 ° 33 ′ 18.2 ″ E