Old Post Office (Neukölln)
The Alte Post is the former main post in the Berlin district of Neukölln . The former imperial post office, an elaborately designed monument , is one of the most striking buildings on Neukölln's Karl-Marx-Straße . Together with the town hall and the district court, it is one of the public buildings that were built shortly after Rixdorf's appointment to the city in 1899 and contributed significantly to the development of a city center in today's Karl-Marx-Straße.
Establishment
Several temporary postal arrangements preceded the imperial post office . When the post office established in 1891 at Bergstrasse 117 (today's Karl-Marx-Strasse 171) became inadequate, the postal administration relinquished its own building on the property acquired in 1900 on Richardstrasse 119/120 (today's Karl-Marx-Strasse 97-99) Establish drafts of the post office building councilor Hermann Struve (1857–1916). The inauguration of the new post office "Rixdorf 1" as the Imperial Post Office I. Class took place in 1906. Between 1923 and 1926, the telephone office designed by Arnold Kayser was built on Donaustraße - adjacent to the post office.
An architecturally closely related post office building is located in Thionville (Diedenhofen) in France , which belonged to the German Empire as part of Alsace-Lorraine from 1871 to 1918. (→ Thionville # buildings )
layout
The main building, which combines elements of the Renaissance style with style quotations from other epochs, was designed as an axially symmetrical two-wing complex at an angle to today's Karl-Marx-Straße. The main facade , crowned by a central gable, faces the corner of the property and is drawn in behind a semicircular porch. The side fronts have mighty gable ends and are oriented towards both streets. Before the Second World War , the design of the building was even more elaborate when an entrance pavilion with a baroque onion dome and a roof tower, also located in the central axis of the building, additionally emphasized the main front.
Extension, restoration and modernization
From 1979 to 1982 extensive construction work was carried out on the listed post office building: An extension was carried out with a new building on the former loading yard, the historicizing exterior, which is important as a "distinctive placemark" in today's urban space and as an urban planning document, was restored and the interior of the building was restored completely modernized, right up to the reorganization of the offices and counter halls. The mail counters and post office box facilities were housed in the original counter hall on the ground floor, while the main counter hall was moved to the first floor.
The Alte Post in 2008
In 2003 the former main post office moved into 44 new premises. Since the new face of Karl-Marx-Straße needs this formative, magnificent building as a lively place, the building will be culturally used in summer 2008 on the way to its future purpose. At the initiative of the Neukölln District Office, exhibitions, theater, school workshops and events will take place there until November 2008. This is the first project of the “Aktion! Karl-Marx-Straße “, in which owners, traders, residents and other groups involved shape the future of the Neukölln business, administrative and cultural center. At the end of 2019, the Spaces co-working chain will move into the building .
literature
- Cornelia Hüge: Karl-Marx-Straße - facets of a living and working space . Edited by Dorothea Kolland, Cultural Office, Neukölln District Office of Berlin. Kramer, Berlin 2001. ISBN 3-87956-271-7 .
Web links
- Alte Post Neukölln , contains the current schedule
- Entry in the Berlin State Monument List
- List of listed buildings of the postal and telecommunications system
Individual evidence
Coordinates: 52 ° 28 ′ 47.6 " N , 13 ° 26 ′ 13.6" E