Old Post Office (Graz)
The Alte Post (also Neuhof ) on Jakominiplatz is a former pomp and post office building in downtown Graz , which is now used as a residential and commercial building.
History and design
The Alte Post is a castle-like three-storey block that the architect Benedikt Withalm built in 1786 for the landowner Kaspar Andreas von Jacomini , after whom the Jakomini district was named. The prominent building separates Jakoministraße from Klosterwiesgasse and has a large inner courtyard, which is now used as a guest garden. In 1825 the structure was renewed. After it was built, the Alte Post served as the seat of its builder and later as a post office.
After the Second World War , the reconstruction of the damaged west wing began in 1949. The facade is in the Josephine- Classicist style and originally had a tympanum relief of the frontispiece by Joseph Klieber , which was knocked off in 1953. In its place there is now a stone cast figure depicting a seated Mercury by the artist Erwin Huber , which was installed in 1967. The inner courtyard is surrounded on three sides by wrought-iron pillar arcades. On the south wall of the courtyard is a fountain with a sandstone figure of a nymph by Joseph Klieber.
literature
- DEHIO Graz. Edited by Horst Schweigert. Schroll, Vienna 1979. p. 79.
Coordinates: 47 ° 4 ′ 0.7 ″ N , 15 ° 26 ′ 33 ″ E