Old Post Office (Oberursel)
The Alte Post is a listed building in Oberursel .
history
In Oberursel, the post was initially housed in the house of the respective post holder . In 1895 the first post office was rented at Oberhöchstädter Straße 10. With a contract dated February 20, 1911 between the city of Oberursel and the Reichs-Post- und Telegraphenverwaltung it was agreed that the city should set up its own post office and that the Oberpostdirektion Frankfurt am Main would rent it.
The foundation stone was laid on July 25, 1911. The construction plans came from the Frankfurt post office building officer Höfig, the construction management was carried out by the Oberursel architect Carl Runkwitz . Earthwork, bricklaying and carpentry work was carried out by the Oberursel company JJ Meister, the roofing work by the Pforzheim company Meschede. The new imperial post office in Oberhöchstädter Strasse was moved into the following year.
When it opened, the house was found to be too small. The city could have built bigger too, but the post office was not prepared to pay more than 4,000 marks in rent. In 1957 the Deutsche Bundespost acquired the building from the city. From 1961 the post office was moved to a barrack on Ebertstrasse and the old post office was used for telecommunication purposes. In 1964 the post office opened at Berliner Straße 89, which is still a post office today.
The Alte Post has been used as a training building by the adult education center since 1987 .
Building description
The old post office is built on a square floor plan. The cubic structure is crowned by a dormer-covered tent roof. Both sides of the street front are emphasized by decorative elements. On the right side this is a shingle on the upper floor. The left side is covered with house stones and bears the inscription "Imperial Post Office". A bay window is integrated through the facing facing the house. There are six arched windows on the ground floor. Originally the window was on the far left, the entrance and accessible via stairs. The entrance was later relocated and the lower part of the entrance walled up to align the windows.
literature
- Eva Rowedder: Hochtaunuskreis . Ed .: State Office for Monument Preservation Hessen (= monument topography Federal Republic of Germany , cultural monuments in Hessen ). Konrad Theiss Verlag, Darmstadt 2013, ISBN 978-3-8062-2905-9 , pp. 461 .
- Christine Šarac: When the post office was still imperial. In: Taunus Zeitung. October 1, 2012, accessed April 14, 2017 .
Coordinates: 50 ° 12 ′ 1.8 ″ N , 8 ° 34 ′ 53 ″ E