Old Oberpostdirektion (Koblenz)
The Alte Oberpostdirektion is a building in the old town of Koblenz . The building built in the 1880s for the Koblenz Oberpostdirektion was used as a telegraph office and later as a telecommunications office in 1907 after it moved to the Imperial Oberpostdirektion . The listed building complex is an example of the demands of the Prussian state buildings in the late 19th century.
history
A Oberpostdirektion in Koblenz was set up on January 1, 1850 in the Prussian Rhine Province and existed until January 1, 1995, until the Deutsche Bundespost was dissolved . The building on Clemensplatz, which still exists today, was built for them after 1881. For this purpose, the Lenzsche House built in the same place between 1786 and 1787, together with two neighboring buildings, was demolished in 1881. This formed an urban counterpart with the neighboring Lassaulx House, which was built at the same time and still exists today . The general design was carried out in the building department of the Reichs-Post under August Kind in the period from July 1881 to November 1883 under the supervision of the post office building councilor Carl Cuno according to his design in Frankfurt am Main and by the government builder Richard Kux.
Since the first building on Clemensplatz no longer offered enough space for expansion, the Imperial Upper Post Office was housed in a new and larger building on Kaiser-Wilhelm-Ring (today Friedrich-Ebert-Ring) in 1907. The old building was then used by the Reichspost as a telegraph office.
During the Second World War , the Alte Oberpostdirektion was badly damaged in an air raid on Koblenz in 1945 and burned down completely. After the war, the building was rebuilt in a simplified manner and then took up the telecommunications office 1 of the Deutsche Bundespost. The building has continued to be used by Deutsche Telekom since the telecommunications offices were closed.
At the beginning of 2017, the building was sold to a real estate company that is planning to convert it into condominiums. The historical facade that has been preserved is to be restored and partially supplemented. The plans also envisage renewing the rather provisional roof that was put on after the Second World War in order to gain additional rooms at the original height, but in a fundamentally modern form.
construction
The Alte Oberpostdirektion is a space-defining three-story building, the design of which was influenced by the German Renaissance and the Italian Baroque . The building complex has four wings that enclose a rectangular inner courtyard. Red and white sandstone from Kyllburg was used as building material .
The courtyard side is now covered with plastered brickwork . Access to the inner courtyard is through a gate on Clemensplatz. Above this is a balcony resting on consoles . This central part of the facade facing Clemensplatz is designed like a risalit and framed by square pilaster strips . The corner on Poststrasse also has this risalit-like facade.
The ground floor has a horizontal cuboid with rounded arched windows. The stone layers are alternately smooth and roughly hewn in the Weser Renaissance style . The roofs of the windows on the two upper floors are modeled after the Roman city palaces of the late Renaissance and the Baroque, alternately pointed and rounded.
Monument protection
The Alte Oberpostdirektion is a protected cultural monument according to the Monument Protection Act (DSchG) and entered in the list of monuments of the state of Rhineland-Palatinate . It is in Koblenz's old town at Clemensplatz 1–5 .
The Alte Oberpostdirektion has been part of the UNESCO World Heritage Upper Middle Rhine Valley since 2002 .
literature
- Energieversorgung Mittelrhein GmbH (ed.): History of the city of Koblenz . Overall editing: Ingrid Bátori in conjunction with Dieter Kerber and Hans Josef Schmidt
- Vol. 1: From the beginning to the end of the electoral era . Theiss, Stuttgart 1992. ISBN 3-8062-0876-X
- Vol. 2: From the French city to the present . Theiss, Stuttgart 1993. ISBN 3-8062-1036-5
- Herbert Dellwing (editor): Cultural monuments in Rhineland-Palatinate. Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany. Volume 3.2: City of Koblenz. Downtown. Werner, Worms 2004. p. 108ff. ISBN 3-88462-198-X
Web links
- Koblenz city history - Part 46: The state invests and the city blossoms in: Rhein-Zeitung , July 20, 2012
- List of listed buildings of the postal and telecommunications system
Individual evidence
- ↑ Cf. The opening of the new post and telegraph building in Coblenz, ZdBauverw VII (1887), No. 37, p. 351.
- ↑ https://www.rhein-zeitung.de/region/lokales/koblenz_artikel,-wohnen-im-clemenscarre-investor-steckt-25-millionen-euro-in-frueheres-postgebaeude-_arid,1734536.html
- ↑ General Directorate for Cultural Heritage Rhineland-Palatinate (ed.): Informational directory of cultural monuments - district-free city of Koblenz (PDF; 1.5 MB), Koblenz 2013.
Coordinates: 50 ° 21 ′ 30.4 ″ N , 7 ° 36 ′ 2 ″ E