Old Post Office (Flensburg)

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The old post office with the Hermes statue, which commemorates the former use of the post office (photo 2011)

The Alte Post ( Danish Den gamle Post ) in Flensburg is a former post office from the 19th century, registered as a cultural monument in the city center . From there, in May 1945, the Reichsender Flensburg broadcast a program with statements by the Dönitz government . After being used as a post office and converted into a passage, the Hotel Alte Post opened there in 2015 .

history

Beginnings

The post office was built and opened in 1880/1881 at Rathausstrasse 2, where the Hotel du Nord previously stood. According to drafts by the construction department under August Kind in the Reich Post Office and under the senior construction management of the Post Building Council and master builder Ernst Hake , Hamburg and the local management of the architect Hildebrandt, a building in the neo-renaissance style was built that initially served as the imperial post office . Together with the neighboring houses, the former train station hotel in Rathausstrasse 1. and the Hotel Flensburger Hof , Norderhofenden 1., the Post formed an ensemble of Wilhelminian architecture that exuded a metropolitan flair. Since its construction, at the corner of the post office building, above, at the level of the first floor, there has been a statue of Hermes with the attributes of a postman : a slung mail bag, a post horn and a few parcels waiting for delivery. In 1900 the building was expanded a little later.

Provisional studio for the Reichsender Flensburg

In early May 1945 to the end of the Second World War , when four kilometers in Flensburg- Mürwik under Grand Admiral Karl Doenitz , the last government of the German Reich settled, parked in the courtyard of the former post office building a broadcast van of the Navy . The Flensburger Nachrichten publishing house also moved into a post office at the time. The Reichsender Flensburg broadcast propaganda broadcasts from the OB van to the transmission mast on the Ostliche Höhe in Jürgensby , from which they were broadcast nationwide.

The program of the "last mouthpiece of the collapsing Nazi regime" next to Prague consisted of appeals and speeches, news and music programs as well as Wehrmacht reports . While messages were being read from the OB van and records were being put on, the radio speeches by Dönitz (May 6th and 8th) and his cabinet colleagues Albert Speer (May 3rd) and Johann Ludwig Graf Schwerin von Krosigk (May 7th) were in attendance Refreshment room for female postal workers has been converted into a makeshift studio.

On May 8th, Dönitz announced in his speech the "unconditional surrender for all fighting troops". On May 9, 1945 at 8:03 p.m., the tank scout operator Klaus Kahlenberg read the last report of the High Command of the Wehrmacht (OKW) on the Flensburg transmitter , in which the "unconditional surrender for all fighting troops" is again declared.

On May 13, 1945 , an intelligence officer of the 159th British Infantry Brigade put an end to the ten days of broadcasting from the Post Office, in which British specialists took over the catenary from May 5, 1945 .

On May 23, 1945, the British arrested the government in Mürwik . Speer, Dönitz and Alfred Jodl were presented to the world press on the same day at the neighboring police headquarters in Flensburg to document the end of the Third Reich. In view of the history of the post office building and the neighboring police building, which served as the headquarters of the local Gestapo , the Schleswig-Holstein Minister for Justice, Culture and Europe, Anke Spoorendonk , unveiled a memorial in front of the Alte Post on September 1, 2013 commemorates the victims of the National Socialist tyranny.

After the end of the war until the Neue Post was built in 1981

After the war ended, the Deutsche Bundespost took over the building and used it as a post office . The name “Alte Post” remained because in 1981 the “Neue Post” (now also called “Hauptpost”) was built near the train station .

Conversion to a passage and a hotel

After its use as a post office in 1988, the Alte Post was converted into a small passage from 1992 to 1994, with shops, restaurants and offices moving into its rooms. With the renovation, however, a badly damaged part of the old post office was demolished. This part has been replaced by a new building that only roughly imitates the old design language of the original building. An access road to the police headquarters was set up there.

In 1994 the party music bar Pupasch moved to the Passage, where it stayed until 1999, until the move to the Zombeck Tower (Streinstrasse). In the early 2000s, the Roxy disco found a new location in the Alte Post for a short time after it closed in Norderstrasse, and on February 27, 2013 the Wok In , a restaurant with Asian cuisine and space for 190 guests, opened here . In the last of vacancy affected house - the Old Post GmbH & Co KG was in 1997 in the bankruptcy - remained as the last tenant until the next remodeling in 2014 a branch of the Sparda-Bank Hamburg .

When the house was converted into a hotel in 2014/2015 and a total of 5.7 million euros was invested, the state of Schleswig-Holstein supported the renovation with around 800,000 euros. The “Alte Post” hotel opened in 2015.

  • Entrance area

  • Handball themed hallway

  • Themed hallway transport

  • Staircase

Hotel "Alte Post"

Hotel "Alte Post"
Hotel chain Figaro
city Flensburg
address Rathausstrasse 2
24937 Flensburg, Germany
Website www.ap-hotel.de
Hotel information
opening 2015
management Simon Damkiær-Classen
Furnishing
room 77
Restaurants Steak and burger
restaurant "Restaurant & Bar - Alte Post"
Bars Hotel bar with lounge area
Photo of the hotel

Coordinates: 54 ° 47 '12.3 "  N , 9 ° 26' 10.2"  E

The hotel "Alte Post" , which opened at the beginning of 2015, has five conference rooms for ten to 100 participants and 75 rooms for 111 overnight guests, which are between 15 and 36 m² in size. These include four themed rooms: one from the Flensburg brewery , one from the erotic company Orion , one from SG Flensburg-Handewitt and one from the disposal specialist Nord-Schrott . The Copenhagen architect and designer Helle Flou designed the interior , which is under the motto "Nordic Life & Style" . The hotel belongs to the Figaro hotel group , which was founded in 2007 by a Danish investor and which also includes the beach hotel in Glücksburg .

The open gastronomy area encloses the steak and burger restaurant & bar "Alte Post" with space for 150 guests and beefeater . The first time after it opened, the burger restaurant was called 1871 - Grill & Buns . According to a report by the Flensburger Tageblatt , the name of the restaurant should refer to the year of construction of the Alte Post , but according to various publications by the preservation authorities and the Society for Flensburg City History , which works with the Flensburg City Archives , construction and opening did not take place until around 1880/1881. The most famous events of 1871 are the end of the Franco-German War in 1870/1871, which followed the German-Danish War in 1864 and the war against Austria in 1866, as well as the imperial proclamation in Versailles in 1871.

See also

Web links

Commons : Alte Post (Flensburg)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

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