Brunswick post offices
The focus of this article is on the history and the historical and current locations of the postal services in the area of the city of Braunschweig . The inner-city Brunswick post offices are followed by the post offices in the incorporated places.
On January 1, 1868, the establishment of the Braunschweig Oberpostdirektion was announced, which existed until 1977.
Postage stamps and postmarks from Braunschweig are an independent and separate area of Old Germany within philately .
The inner-city Braunschweig Post Office
Preliminary remark
The history of the Duchy of Braunschweig begins in 1235: “Emperor Friedrich II (1194–1250) wanted to decide on the reorganization of the entire country (reformatio tocius terre status) in league with the imperial princes in August 1235 at the Mainzer Hoftage . An old quarrel between the fathers was to be settled at the solemn meeting, the reconciliation between the Staufer emperor and his Welf relative Otto von Lüneburg be brought about. That is why the ruler founded the Duchy of Braunschweig in league with the princes, elevated the new Duke Otto to the top group of the nobility and made him imperial prince. "
The historical sources of the postal history are limited: “There is only limited information about the origins of the Brunswick postal facilities, since the postal files that can provide information about this were published in 1808 on the orders of King Jérôme Bonaparte , who was sent by his brother Napoleon to the Battle of Jena had been appointed regent of the Kingdom of Westphalia , all had to be delivered to the general administration in Kassel . When, after the Wars of Liberation, the Kingdom of Westphalia was dissolved again in 1814 and Braunschweig demanded its postal files to be returned from Kassel, almost nothing of the files was left. For this reason, the official documents for research into Braunschweig's postal history up to the end of the 19th century are very poor. "
Early traffic routes
Very little is known about the early postal connections. It is certain, however, that such postal services must have existed at all times. There was no other way of administering domains, trade and, last but not least, warfare.
Hellweg , for example, was one such Völkerstraße . It began on the Lower Rhine, led along the low mountain range to the Weser, crossed the river near Hameln, continued along the Deister and reached the middle Elbe. Branches form early on. Rivers were good connections between the coast and the inland.
The Romans used the rivers as a gateway to Germania, made moors passable and built military roads . Such roads can be proven between the Ems to the Weser and Elbe. The trade later largely took over these streets. Such a road leads from the Ems to Minden around the Deister to Peine, Braunschweig to Magdeburg. Another led from the Ems via Verden, Soltau and Uelzen to the east.
Traders from the Danube countries tried to expand their trade to the north. Old roads ran through Franconia, Thuringia, Saxony, etc. For the area described here, a road led via Goslar to Gandersheim, Hildesheim and Hanover to Celle.
At the time of the Hanseatic League , trade routes were formed between Lübeck along the coast via Hamburg and Bremen to Lingen an der Ems in the Netherlands. Between Hamburg and Bremen there were roads to Lüneburg and from there via Minden to Cologne as well as to Hanover and on via Hameln or Göttingen to Frankfurt.
First messengers
As trade grew, a courier service naturally had to develop. In the long run, it was not acceptable for the merchant to exclusively offer his goods to the customer when he was traveling. Once customers were won, they could also be supplied by messengers. It also made sense to supply these customers with trucking businesses. Guilds and guilds had their own messengers. The rulers operated their messenger system in no other way. Monastery messengers wandered from one monastery to another and sometimes only returned to their starting point after years.
The messengers entrusted with precious goods were taken under oath. In the long term, this meant that messengers were taken under oath and duty as soon as they were hired, and this for all errands. The messenger masters and entrepreneurs came with several messengers who could organize errands more economically. In the larger cities such as Braunschweig, rulers and sovereign messengers can be found early on.
The administration of the duchy required an errand, which over time took on a regular course. But these services only served the sovereign, even if private letters were occasionally sent.
In Prussia, a route was laid out from Küstrin to Ansbach. This connection was connected to the route from Ansbach via Langensalza and Seesen to Wolfenbüttel, the residence of the Duke of Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel . In Küstrin, Ansbach and Wolfenbüttel there were always messengers ready to go all the way. From Wolfenbüttel there were connections to the headquarters of the Guelphs of the Lüneburg-Cellischen line in Celle. From Celle there was the Cours Halle – Leipzig, there it met the Cours Küstrin – Ansbach. At times there was a cours to Herzberg to the residence of the Braunschweig-Lüneburg dukes of the Principality of Calenberg . But it was always messengers who traveled the whole way - without being replaced.
First orderly errands
Duke Heinrich the Younger set up an “ordinari post”, which was provided by individual, specific messengers, twice a week to Ringelheim, Schöningen and Steinbrück.
Duke Julius (1528–1589) issued a large chancellery regulation in 1575, according to which the messengers had to leave immediately after the letters had been processed, without first collecting private letters. Private letters were not allowed to be sent without the prince's knowledge. They had to be handed in to the messenger master and the answers picked up. The sworn messenger and the messenger as well as the mail riders, mostly princely servants, were subordinate to the messenger master. Less important letters could also be given to the messengers passing through. Servants of the rulership usually went into the vicinity. The messenger wages were paid by the messenger master; there were penalties for defaulting orders. The wage was calculated according to the number of miles and was determined by tax regulations. Under Duke August (the Younger 1579–1666) it was 3 Mariengroschen (mgr) for 1 mile within the national borders and 4 mgr outside the country. If an overnight stay was unavoidable, 6 mgr came. or 9 mgr. for crediting. If, on the other hand, he received free boarding, he only got 4 mgr. If the messenger did not perform his duties properly, he received a reduced wage. Misappropriations of between 50 and 100 thalers were punished with "staining and perpetual reprimand"; if more than 100 thalers were misappropriated, they should be “directed from life to death with the rod”.
At the time of the Hanseatic League, the messenger system was continuously expanded. From the beginning of the 14th to the middle of the 17th century, the duchy found its way into the big world with the course from Nuremberg via Braunschweig, Celle to Hamburg. For one centner of freight to Nuremberg, freight wages of 8 thalers had to be paid. A traveler paid 20 thalers from Nuremberg to Hamburg, including food and drink.
In the middle of the 17th century, the sovereigns set up their national postal system, with the result that the private messenger lines were now suppressed in favor of the new institutions. Only the Hamburg-Nürnberger Cours could, due to its old existence, hold up into the 18th century.
It turned out that messengers and carters stopped by certain hostels. The landlord then arranged for other people to take mail with them. Neighboring cities shared the cost of messengers. Hildesheim offered the Braunschweig residents the opportunity to share a connection between the Archbishop of Cologne, who was also the Bishop of Hildesheim, and Cologne via Paderborn.
The connections were particularly extensive during the Thirty Years' War. The Swedes set up a regular post run, a so-called field post, in northern and central Germany. Other troops will have acted the same way.
In Braunschweig-Lüneburg, Duke Georg (1582–1641) had a connection from his residence in Hildesheim to his brother in Celle in 1636. Two soldiers were stationed in Burgdorf who transported the arriving things to Celle or Hildesheim. Very little has appeared so far about the messenger and freight system of the Middle Ages. A worthwhile task for historians.
First regular, generally accessible post offices
The development of the mail volume, promoted by inventions and discoveries, promoted a further development of the postal system. The first to recognize and practice this was the Italian courier family of taxis (actually Tasso ). They offered courier services in Italy from the 15th century. Initially operated only for political reasons, the "letter traffic institute" was restructured economically. The Roman-German king and later Emperor Maximilian I (1459–1519) had Janetto , Franz and Johann Baptista von Taxis take over the courier service in his hereditary lands. Janetto von Taxis organized and operated the courier service between Innsbruck and Linz, between the emperor's residence and whereabouts, during Maximilian's conflict with Hungary. At the same time, since 1490, the Dutch course existed between Innsbruck and Mechelen as well as with the French and Spanish courts. There were no fixed routes yet. With the change of the respective court, the endpoints of the lines also changed. This facility ultimately did not last.
Emperor Rudolf II (1552–1612) appointed Leonhard I von Taxis postmaster general in the German Empire in 1595 and declared the postal system to be an imperial shelf without the consent of the imperial princes. The following son Lamoral von Taxis received the postal system in 1615 as an inheritance, which was extended to the female line by Emperor Ferdinand II (1578–1637).
- In the concise dictionary of the postal system in 1927, the term post is defined as follows: “Post is a permanent state institution intended for the common good for the transport of people, messages and small goods as well as for the processing of money transactions and documentary transactions, which anyone can set up against prescribed conditions of use Provides traffic plans and using all means of transport used to accelerate operations. "
The post comes to Braunschweig
Duke Julius (1528–1589) issued the first chancellery rules in 1535, which also governed the messenger system. That was the beginning of the state post office, which was built on the model of the taxic post office.
In 1570, Duke Heinrich Julius von Braunschweig (1564–1613) had agreed a postal connection with the Elector of Saxony (1526–1586) from Wolfenbüttel via Halberstadt to Leipzig and Dresden . The daughter of August of Saxony, Dorothea (1563–1587) was married to Heinrich Julius von Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel (1528–1589).
Since May 28, 1589, a post went from Wolfenbüttel via Seesen , Herzberg , Gotha , Coburg , Bamberg to Ansbach , where the daughter Sophie of Braunschweig (1563–1639) was married to Georg Friedrich the Elder of Brandenburg-Ansbach. There was also a postal connection with Kassel.
In 1651 the city council of Braunschweig set up a kind of “post office” in the old town hall . Four messengers had to deal with the city (council) messengers. In the appointment it says: "... so that now everyone knows where to put the letter and what else everyone knows how to give, hand over and recover from ..."
According to the ordinance of April 13, 1659, the management and expansion of the post office was entrusted to the postmaster Rütger Hinüber in Hildesheim and Hilmar Deichmann in Braunschweig. Postmaster Deichmann in Braunschweig took over the postal courses: Braunschweig - Celle - Lüneburg - Hamburg , from Celle - Nienburg - Verden , as well as Braunschweig - Wolfenbüttel - Goslar - Osterode and further to the Harz and Braunschweig - Helmstedt - Magdeburg and additionally Braunschweig - Halberstadt.
In addition to this Brunswick regional post office, there was the Thurn and Taxis post office. Other posts that made their way through Braunschweig and were also processed here were the Hamburg-Nürnbergische Post, which also ran in the Altstadtrathaus, then the Kurbrandenburgische Post, which existed here from 1649 to 1682 and was processed in the house of its postmaster Caspar Pröven at Südklint 5 became and finally the so-called Braunschweigische Küchenpost, the "Hochfürstlich Braunschweig-Lüneburgische Post".
Thurn and Taxis
The Imperial Post Office operated by taxis came to Braunschweig in 1616. She delivered the post intended for Braunschweig and received the post intended for transport. She did not have the right to collect or deliver mail within the state of Braunschweig. The dispatch of the Taxis'schen Reitpost was done in 1645 in the house of the postmaster Kluge in the Breiten Straße 2. In 1693 the general manager and Drost Peter von Lautensack took over the Taxis'sche Post and relocated the post office to his property at Poststrasse 7 (today Karstadt furniture store).
The Dukes of Braunschweig did not oppose this foreign mail, but on the other hand the Braunschweig princes never gave their express permission to set up Taxis' postal routes through the state of Braunschweig. They always took the position that postal sovereignty was a sovereign right. The princes also recognized that good and many postal connections can only be beneficial to trade and traffic.
Long-standing disputes between the Taxis'schen Posten and the Landespost led in June 1790 to Duke Karl Wilhelm Ferdinand requesting the Prince of Thurn und Taxis to close or close his existing post offices and postal lines in the state of Braunschweig. The Taxis postmaster from Münchhausen did not close his post office on Breite Strasse. Early in the morning on July 2, 1790, the court administrator Wilmerding, a master locksmith and his journeymen met in front of the post office. Despite violent protests from the postmaster of Münchhausen, the postcards were removed and the Taxis post office closed.
The Taxis riding posts arriving after July 2, 1790 were stopped at the gates of the city and taken to the Hofpostamt in Poststrasse. There they had to hand in the fur irons with the letters.
| "Thurn and Taxissche Post" (office in Braunschweig from 1645 to 1790) | ||
| date | Location | ladder |
|---|---|---|
| 1645-1693 | Breite Strasse 2 (Ass. 771) |
1645 Johann Kluge, 1660 Hilmar Deichmann, 1665 Diedrich Schünemann, 1680 Hilmar Deichmann. |
| 1693-1748 | Poststrasse 7
( Kohlmarkt , |
1693 Johann Peter von Lautensack, 1719 Ludolf August von Lautensack, 1735 Ferdinand von Münchhausen. |
| 1748-1790 | Breite Strasse 19 (Ass. 882) |
1763 Jacob Ulrich Henneberg, 1780 Franz Carl von Münchhausen. |
| 1790 | closed | |
Kitchen mail
The Hamburg-Nürnbergische Botenpost was included in the kitchen mail in 1706. In that year, Duke Anton Ulrich commissioned the post office clerk Heinrich Georg Henneberg to set up a driving post for the Princely State Post between Braunschweig and Hamburg. It was called kitchen mail because it was supposed to help supply the farm with products from the Hamburg market, such as fish and imported goods. The administration and handling of the post was initially in the old town hall and since 1712 in the house of the post office clerk Heinrich Georg Henneberg, at Gördelingerstraße 44. Later the police department was there and later the company Pfeiffer & Schmidt.
Through a contract with the secret secretary Heyland from August 29, 1717, the kitchen mail was carried out up to the court of Duke Ludwig Rudolf in Blankenburg.
When Heinrich Georg Henneberg died on December 19, 1717, the widow took over the official duties.
Until the end of March 1732, this kitchen mail was a private company of the Hennebergs and the Prussian Post Commissioner Wolff in Hamburg. Then it was converted into a Princely Kitchen Post. The post office has now moved to Breite Straße 19 (now the school). It was identified by a large shield with the ducal coat of arms. The city's messenger system gradually had to give way to the state post office.
In Hamburg, a Princely Brunswick post office was set up in the building at Grosse Johannesstrasse 10 and placed under the post of Post Commissioner Borgaest. This post office was not closed until 1838.
Thurn und Taxis carried out his riding mail, more was not allowed, from the Kohlmarkt. The property was too big for that. However, the Princely Post Office on Breite Strasse continued to expand and there was no space. The Taxische Post therefore sold its property to the Fürstliche Landespost in 1748, which remained there until 1835. Today's Poststrasse was previously considered to be part of the Kohlmarkt. The Taxissche Post was continued from Breiten Straße 2.
| "Princely Court Post Office" | ||
| date | Location | ladder |
|---|---|---|
| 1706-1712 | Old Town Hall | 1706–1717 Post office clerk Heinrich Georg Henneberg, founder of the "Kitchen Post". |
| 1712-1722 | Gördelingerstrasse No. 44 (Ass. 86) | 1717–1722 Regina Margaretha Henneberg, b. Vasel, widow of H. G. Henneberg; Agent of the Landespost until 1719, then agent of the "Kitchen Post".
1722–1732 Heir-General Postmaster Ernst August von Platen, who leased the kitchen post on April 2, 1722. |
| 1720-1748 | Breite Strasse No. 19 (Ass. 882) | 1732–1763 August Jacob Ulrich Henneberg, son of H. G. Henneberg, agent of the "Kitchen Post" later of the Communion Post. |
| 1748-1835 | Kohlmarkt (Ass. 300) today Poststrasse 7 | 1763–1776 Sophie Louise Henriette Henneberg, b. Sellschopp, widow of A. J. U. Henneberg, agent of the Communion-Post.
1776–1808 Georg Conrad Albert Henneberg, son of A. J. U. Henneberg, inspector of the moving mail in the Kgr. Westphalen.
1814–1822 Johann Philipp August Henneberg, son of A. J. U. Henneberg
1822–1828 Carl Henneberg, cousin of Ernst Henneberg, prov. Head of the Brunswick postal system from 1822 to 1828. 1828–1831 August Henneberg, cousin of Carl Henneberg.
1832–1849 Post Director Ernst Salzenberg |
| 1735-1867 | Poststrasse 7 | 1849 Post Director Friedrich Karl August Rippentrop
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| 1843, September 15th | 1. Railway station | Post expedition |
| 1845, November 18 | 2. Railway station | 1851 Ferdinand Albrecht
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Royal Westphalian Post
On February 11, 1808, King Jerome placed the entire posts of his kingdom under a “general administration of posts. Relays and messengers ”in Kassel, its capital. During this time the postal service received a postmark.
After the Wars of Liberation in 1812/13, the Napoleonic occupation ended.
Braunschweigische Landespost
The whole area between the Leuenturm (corner of Kohlmarkt / Hutfiltern ) and the Gewandhaus was previously assigned to the Kohlmarkt. The street was named "Poststraße" around 1850.
In 1881, after the old post office had been abandoned, the Kommerzienrat W. Götte bought it from the post office to leave it to the city for demolition. This created today's Brabantstrasse.
The old post office building on Poststrasse extended over the site of today's furniture store and, beyond today's Brabantstrasse, to the houses of the cookshop. These houses disappeared in 1911 when the Chamber of Commerce was rebuilt. There was a narrow passage to the stables and wagon sheds, which could also be reached from Steinstrasse.
On December 1, 1838, the first state railway between Braunschweig and Wolfenbüttel was put into operation. The first train station, as well as the post office set up in it, were not sufficient for the increasing traffic. The construction of a second station (Alter Bahnhof) began in 1843 on the same site and in November 1845 the postal expedition was able to move into the west wing of the new railway building.
From 1850 to 1867, under the leadership of the Amsberg Finance Council, the railway and post office were combined to form an authority called the “Ducal Railway and Post Office”.
With the accession of the Duchy of Braunschweig to the North German Confederation in 1868, the Oberpostdirektion Braunschweig was established on January 1, 1868 .
After the proclamation of the empire in 1871, the "Imperial German Reichspost" was created. Its activities began on May 4, 1871, the day the constitution of the German Empire came into force.
German Reichspost 1871
With Official Gazette 3 of May 23, 1871, on April 16, 1871, the Deutsche Reichspost introduced the following classifications for its postal services: post office, postal administration , postal expeditions , postal agencies .
In the city of Braunschweig in 1871 the Imperial Post Office was located in Poststraße (today Karstadt furniture store), the postal expedition in the train station and the postal agencies in Fallersleber Straße 27 at Hermann Salge, colonial and material goods store and distillation, as well as at Alte Waage 21 at Friedrich Holzberg, material goods store.
Due to the rulings of the Reichspost administration of February 13th and May 22nd, 1875, the first standard stamps and thus the postal authority numbers were introduced on July 1st of the same year. “In places where there are two or more post offices themselves, these post offices should only be distinguished in the stamps by adding a number in Arabic form to the place name. The main post offices are given the number 1 everywhere, any other post offices that are still in operation that extend their operations to the whole town are designated with the next following numbers, and the other city and train station post offices in consecutive numbers. "
The post office in Poststrasse became "Braunschweig 1" and the post office at the station became "Braunschweig 2". The postal agencies got the numbers 3 and 4. In the area of the OPD Braunschweig there was then only in Göttingen such a distinction between the post office "Göttingen 1" and the city postal agency "Göttingen 2".
When post and telegraphy were merged on January 1, 1876, new names for the post offices were proposed and introduced on January 8, 1876. There were now three classes of post offices. The terms postal administration and postal expedition were dropped. The postal agencies kept their names.
After more than 130 years, Post Office 1 in Poststrasse was no longer able to cope with the demands of the steadily increasing mail traffic. When the later Friedrich-Wilhelm-Strasse was built in 1876 as a connection between the train station and Münzstrasse, the Reichspost acquired a plot of land for a larger new building for 140,000 marks according to August Kind's planning by the construction department in the Reichspostamt, which began in May 1878. On March 29, 1881, the new Reichpost building, which then housed Post Office 1, was opened at Friedrich-Wilhelm-Straße 3.
The opening took place without the general postmaster Stephan . Stephan had arrived, but he refused to enter the post office through a "side entrance" because the entrance is not arranged symmetrically.
| Post Office 1 Main Post Office (Poststrasse 7 - Friedrich-Wilhelm Strasse 3 - Berliner Platz) | ||
| date | Location | comment |
|---|---|---|
| 1871 | Poststrasse 7 | |
| 1875, July 1st | Poststrasse 7 | Lietz, Post Director |
| 1881, March 29 | Friedrich-Wilhelm-Strasse 3 | Post director Lietz
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| 1966, November 14th | Berliner Platz 13 | December 1, 1970 Chief Postal Director Dr. Dony
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| 1986, June 18 | Berliner Platz 13 | Temporary outsourcing due to new building and renovation at Berliner Platz 1 (Ring Center) letter acceptance and letter delivery service |
| Post office 31 - Friedrich Wilhelm Strasse 3 | ||
| After the main post office had been relocated to the train station at Berliner Platz 13, the post office facility in Friedrich Wilhelm Strasse remained as Post Office 31 | ||
| date | Location | Remarks |
|---|---|---|
| 1966, November 14th | Friedrich Wilhelm Strasse 3 | Walter Kraschewsky
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| Post office 2 (rail post office - each in the station) | ||
| After the introduction of the railway and the commissioning of the station building, a rail post office was set up in the west wing in November 1845, after one had existed in the first station building since September 15, 1843 | ||
| date | comment | |
|---|---|---|
| 1838, December 1st | Opening of the first state railway Braunschweig - Wolfenbüttel | |
| 1843, September 15th | Post expedition, still in the first old train station | |
| 1845, November 15th | Post expedition in the new station - 1851 Ferdinand Albrecht
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| 1875, July 1st | Post office II class | |
| 1944, March | Bombed out, no operation | |
| 1944, October 15th | makeshift plant in ruins | |
| 1945, June 18 | Postal service resumed | |
| 1946, November 24th | Post office II, at PA 1, independent station service point | |
| 1962, May 3rd | Berliner Platz 13 (new train station) | |
| 1966, November 14th | slammed to the main post office | |
| Post Office 3 (Fallersleberstrasse 5 - Wendenstrasse) | ||
| date | Location | comment |
|---|---|---|
| 1871 | Old scales 21 | Friedrich Holzberg postal agency, dealer |
| 1871 | Fallesleberstrasse 27 | Post agency, Hermann Salge, dealer |
| On October 16, 1879, the two post offices were closed and Post Office 3 was opened at Fallersleber Strasse 5 | ||
| 1879, October 16 | Fallersleberstrasse 5 | Post Office 3 |
| 1890, December 15 | Wendenstrasse 32 | Post Office 3 |
| 1935, December 15th | Wendenstrasse 36 | Post office II |
| 1944, December 15th | Wendenstrasse 32 | Bomb damaged, no operation |
| 1946, October 15th | Wendenstrasse 36 | New opening |
| 1953, December 14th | Wendenstrasse 36 | Post Office 3 |
| 1966, November 14th | Wendenstrasse 36 | Post Office 33 |
| 1993, October 15 | Closed | |
But by the nineties, the main post office was no longer up to the operational requirements. A neighboring property was bought and a side wing was added. In 1904 further plots of land were bought at Kattreppeln and Johannishof . By 1912, three more branch post offices were set up and opened in Helmstedter Strasse, Celler Strasse and Hagenring.
| Post office 4 (Helmstedter Strasse) | ||
| date | Location | comment |
|---|---|---|
| 1891, November 1st | Helmstedter Strasse 79 | Hoffmann |
| 1898 | Helmstedter Strasse 111 | |
| 1935 | Helmstedter Strasse 167 | |
| 1944, October 15th | Helmstedter Strasse 167 | Bomb damaged, no operation possible |
| The post office was temporarily at Memeler Straße 1 | ||
| 1946, September 1st | Memeler Strasse 1 | Post acceptance point "Braunschweig 1 H" |
| 1946, October 15th | closed | |
| 1946, December 2nd | Helmstedter Strasse 167 | |
| 1966, November 14th | Helmstedter Strasse 167 | Post Office 34 |
| 1968, January 13th | Helmstedter Strasse 167 | 3300 Closed |
| Post Office 5 (Celler Strasse 87) | ||
| date | Location | comment |
|---|---|---|
| 1891, November 1st | Celler Strasse 87 | |
| 1910 | Celler Strasse 125 | |
| 1944, October 15th | Celler Strasse 125 | Bomb damaged, no operation possible |
| 1950, June 3 | Celler Strasse 96 | Post office 5, new opening |
| 1966, November 14th | Celler Strasse 96 | Post Office 35 |
| Post Office 6 (Hagenring 37) - Post Office 36 (Jasperallee 40) | ||
| date | Location | comment |
|---|---|---|
| 1912, May 15 | Hagenring 87 | Mrs. Fricke |
| 1944, October 15th | Hagenring 37 | Bomb damaged, no operation possible |
| 1944, November | Korfesstrasse 34 | opened on a trial basis |
| 1946, December 2nd | Korfesstrasse 34 | New opening |
| 1947, October 30th | Korfesstrasse 34 | the branch post office was closed |
| 1949, December 5th | Jasperallee 40 | New opening as a post office 6 |
| 1966, November 14th | Jasperallee 40 | Post Office 36 |
| 1969, December 29th | Jasperallee 35a | Post Office 36 |
The urgently needed new building of a main post office was thwarted by the First World War, inflation and the subsequent economic crisis.
When the rural postal service was reorganized in 1881, post offices were created as a new, subordinate type of postal service to support the rural postal service.
With the increase in postal traffic in the country, the administration created a new class of postal agencies in 1923 , the so-called postal agencies with a simpler operation.
The classification of post offices was abolished in the Official Gazette of July 25, 1924 (Ed. 470). In their place there was a distinction between offices with larger, medium and low business volume, and accordingly the grades of their heads of office.
In order to improve and simplify the postal service in the cities, the administration converted independent city post offices into branch post offices .
Post offices have been set up since April 1, 1927 . At the beginning they had rubber stamps in a rectangular shape with the place name of the post office and as an addition the name of the main post office and the additional addition "LAND". They were usually not used for cancellation. They were to be placed next to the postage stamp on the mail item. Only when a letter remained in the local delivery area of his post office was the stamp given the rubber stamp. These stamps were not standardized.
In addition, there were "Post Offices II City" to improve delivery options in the outskirts of large cities. In the stamp they had the official name of the post office to which they were assigned, followed by a capital letter. These post offices labeled their shipments themselves.
On November 1, 1928, five mail acceptance points were opened. The city acceptance points each had a rubber stamp with the designation “Braunschweig” and the consecutive numbers 7 to 10. The stamp of the state acceptance point was labeled “Ölper / Braunschweig-Land”.
The stamps were changed in January 1929. The stamps now bore the designation "Braunschweig 1". A capital letter has been added to the number “1” to differentiate between the acceptance points. The stamp "Ölper / Braunschweig-Land" was not changed.
On November 1, 1928, five mail acceptance points were opened. The city acceptance points each had a rubber stamp with the designation "Braunschweig" and the consecutive numbers 7 to 10. The stamp of the state acceptance point was labeled "Ölper / Braunschweig-Land"
| Post Office II City (Siegfriedstrasse - receiving post office ) | ||
| date | Location | comment |
|---|---|---|
| 1928, November 1st | Siegfriedstrasse 67 | Frame stamp "Braunschweig 7" |
| 1929, January | Siegfriedstrasse 67 | One-liner stamp "Braunschweig 1 A" Wilhelm Müller |
| 1929 | Siegfriedstrasse 100 | Erich Kieselhorst |
| 1931 | Middle ground 137 | Theodor Staats |
| 1939, November 2nd | Kielerstrasse 15 | Mrs. Westphal (?) |
| 1941 | Wilhelmshavener Strasse 6 | Mrs. Daum |
| 1944, December 15th | Wilhelmshavener Strasse | closed |
| 1946, July 1st | Beethovenstrasse 66 | closed |
| Post Office II City (Riedestraße 2a - receiving post office ) | ||
| date | Location | comment |
|---|---|---|
| 1928, November 1st | Riedestrasse 2a | Frame stamp "Braunschweig 8", Paul Schrader |
| 1929 | Riedestrasse 2a | One-liner stamp "Braunschweig 1 B" |
| 1942 | Riedestrasse 2a | Hedwig Schrader |
| 1949, January 24th | Wolfenbüttler Strasse 38 | Merkel |
| 1952, March 20 | closed | |
| Post office II city (Madamenweg 152 - receiving post office ) | ||
| date | Location | comment |
|---|---|---|
| 1928, November 1st | Madamenweg 152 | Frame stamp "Braunschweig 9", Albert Rexhausen |
| 1929 | Madamenweg 152 | One-liner stamp "Braunschweig 1 C" |
| 1939 | Altstadtring 29 | Richard Brandes |
| 1944, December 31 | closed | |
| 1946, June 24th | Madammenweg 152 | newly opened |
| 1946, December 31 | closed | |
| 1951, March 16 | Hamburger Strasse 211 | opened, paper goods Holzhausen |
| 1951, December 28th | closed | |
| Post Office II City (Rudolfplatz 8 - receiving post office ) | ||
| date | Location | comment |
|---|---|---|
| 1928, November 1st | Rudolfplatz 8 | Frame stamp "Braunschweig 10", Hugo Brandes |
| 1929 | Madamenweg 152 | One-liner stamp "Braunschweig 1 D" |
| 1931 | Rossstrasse 1 | Koch, Karl |
| 1934 | Ernst-Amme-Strasse 30 | Otte, Ewald |
| 1938 | Rossstrasse? | Otte, Berta |
| 1946, August 15th | Ernst-Amme-Strasse 11/12 | |
| 1947, April 1st | Post office 1st class, "Braunschweig 10" | |
The stamps were changed in January 1929. The stamps now bore the designation "Braunschweig 1". A capital letter has been added to the number “1” to differentiate between the acceptance points. The stamp "Ölper / Braunschweig-Land" was not changed.
| Post Office II Land (Celler Heerstraße 30 - receiving post office ) | ||
| date | Location | comment |
|---|---|---|
| before 1888 | Celler Heerstrasse 34 | Braunschweig Post Office 1 |
| 1888, April 28th | Celler Heerstrasse 34 | Post agency, Heinrich Duderstadt
|
| 1923, April 1st | Celler Heerstrasse 34 | Post agency with simple operation |
| 1924, February 1st | Dorfstrasse 34 | Post agency with simple operations Hermann Förster |
| 1928, November 1st | Celler Heerstrasse 30 | Post office I. Otto Kassel
|
| 1934 | Ölper was incorporated | |
| 1939 | Celler Heerstrasse 30 | "Braunschweig - Ölper / about Braunschweig" |
| 1948 | Celler Heerstrasse 30 | Post office I. "Braunschweig - Ölper" |
| 1966, November 14th | Celler Heerstrasse 30 | "Braunschweig 16", 1967, January 1st Christa Arnold (born Kassel) |
| 1976 | Celler Heerstrasse 30 | Post office I. "Braunschweig 12" |
| 1947 | 1st class post office | |
| 1948, April 1st | Braunschweig 10 | |
The form of the place name was changed by Official Gazette No.47, Order No.266, of May 26, 1933. The stamp now contained the name of the place via the Leitpostamt, ie "... / via Braunschweig".
Country post offices had been set up at the Leitpostämter (LPA). Her job was to handle the post office, cash transactions, accounting and correspondence with the post offices. Shipments from the post offices were only made ready for post, booked, labeled and stamped at these rural post offices. For this purpose, the rural post offices received their own day stamps with the addition "LAND" to the name of the main post office. Initially, there were single-circle stamps in different shapes with the 24-hour counting introduced in 1927. After the postal service introduced the two-circle stamp as the stamp standard in 1931, these gradually came into use at rural post offices. Machine stamps were also used at larger control post offices. On October 1, 1937, the guidelines for the assessment of services at the Deutsche Reichspost (assessment guidelines) came into force. She also issued on April 14, 1938 guidelines for the evaluation of posts in the area of the DBP (evaluation guidelines). As a result of these guidelines, all departments were divided into two large groups of offices and agencies. With Official Gazette No.56, Order No.175 of June 6, 1944, the insertion of the postal area code into the stamps was prescribed. Since the rubber stamps were not standardized, there were a variety of shapes and sizes.
In 1939 the construction of a new train station was approved. Then came the Second World War and again the end of the effort. Many offices of the Oberpostdirektion had to be housed in rented buildings and rooms. Due to building damage after air raids in the last years of the war, housing became increasingly difficult.
| Post Office 9 (Südstadt) | ||
| The "Südstadt", originally "Südstadtsiedlung Mascheroder Holz", was created as one of the settlements built in the 3rd Reich in the years 1936–1939 | ||
| date | Location | comment |
|---|---|---|
| 1937 | Hohenstaufenstrasse 5 | Postal agency |
| 1939 | Maurerweg 2 | Postal agency |
| 1940 | Jagdstieg 2 | Postal agency |
| 1941 | Dachsweg 11 | Post agency, Martha Diekmann |
| 1947, March 1st | Dachsweg 11 | "Braunschweig 1 E", branch post office "Braunschweig 9" |
| 1947, September 10th | Korfesstrasse 34 | "Braunschweig 1 E" after the closure of PA 6 |
| 1950, June 30th | Korfesstrasse | "Braunschweig 1 E", now PSt I. closed |
| 1959 | Karrenkamp 5-6 | Post Office 9 |
| 1966, November 14th | Karrenkamp 5-6 | Post Office 39 |
| 1970, February 16 | Steinsetzerweg 25 | Post office 39, Wolfgang Schmidt
|
| Post Office 7 (Siegfriedviertel) | ||
| The Siegfriedviertel was the first closed settlement in Braunschweig | ||
| date | Location | comment |
|---|---|---|
| 1939, February 8 | Nibelungenplatz 9 | Rental contract 8./13. February 1939 |
| 1966, November 14th | Nibelungenplatz 9 | Post Office 37, May 1971 Manfred Diebel
|
| 1999, July | Nibelungenplatz 9 | closed |
With Official Gazette No.56, Order No.175 of June 6, 1944, the inclusion of the postal area code in the stamps was prescribed. Since the rubber stamps were not standardized, there were a variety of shapes and sizes.
The post offices of the districts incorporated in the 1930s
The municipality of Veltenhof was incorporated into the city in 1931. In 1934 the communities Gliesmarode , Lehndorf , Melverode , Querum , Riddagshausen and Rühme followed . In addition, districts such as the "garden city" Rüningen , the settlements Lehndorf , Mascherode and am Lindenberg emerged in the thirties . While post offices already existed in the municipalities before they were incorporated, post offices were set up in the new districts.
| Post office 15 (Veltenhof) | ||
| date | Location | comment |
|---|---|---|
| 1895, April 1st | Post agency, Hugo Brennecke | |
| 1923, April 1st | Post agency with simple operation | |
| 1949 | Stamp "Braunschweig-Veltenhof" | |
| 1966, November 14th | Pfälzerstrasse 40 | Post office class I 18 |
| 1971 | Waller way 105 | |
| 1976, January 1st | Post office 1st class 15 | |
| 1983, October 1st | Unter den Linden 21 | Supply by a post bus |
| 1985 | Pfälzerstraße 34 | Post office 1st class 15 |
| Post office 12 (Gliesmarode) | ||
| date | Location | comment |
|---|---|---|
| 1900, April 1st | Berliner Str. 13 | Post agency, Wilhelm Cordes
|
| 1906, October 30th | Berliner Strasse 110 | Paul Prahl |
| 1919, June 25th | Berliner Strasse 13 | Hermann Henkel
|
| 1949 | Stamp "Braunschweig-Gliesmarode" | |
| 1964, October 1st | Berliner Str. 31 | Post agency, Rudolf Berger |
| 1966, April 1st | Berliner Str. 31 | Post office 12, Ernst-Dieter Nolte
|
| 1966, November 14th | Berliner Str. 31 | Post office 42, 1970 Ursula Böttger
|
| 1993, October 15 | closed | |
| Post office 8 (Lehndorf) | ||
| date | Location | comment |
|---|---|---|
| 1897, April 1st | Grosse Strasse 26 | Post agency, Friederich Wedderkopf
|
| 1937 | Sulzbacherstrasse 42 | Post agency, Ferdinand Böhmer |
| 1938 | Sankt-Ingbert-Strasse 26 | Post agency, Fritz Piltz |
| 1940 | Sankt-Wendel-Strasse 25 | Post office 8, Franz Kreisel, - Alvin Prätzer |
| 1966, November 14th | Sankt-Wendel-Strasse 25 | Post office 38, 1966, August 1st, Hans Georg Strohschein |
| 1978, November 1st | Sankt-Wendel-Strasse 25 | Post office 38, Helmut Wode |
| 2007 | Sankt-Wendel-Strasse 25 | Postplus branch |
| Post Office 23 (Melverode) | ||
| date | Location | comment |
|---|---|---|
| 1914 | Post helpline, Bernhard Burchard | |
| 1929, October 1st | Leipziger Str. 46 | Post agency, Max Helgermann |
| Post office II. Class, BS - Melverode / ü BS | ||
| 1948, December 1st | Post office 1st class, "Braunschweig-Melverode" | |
| 1953 | In the long fields 41 | Karl-Georg Ludwig |
| 1964, March 1st | Leipziger Str. 46 | Post office I. 23, Christa Stoffregen |
| 1966, November 14th | Leipziger Str. 46 | Post office 22 |
| 1972, January 31 | Leipziger Str. 46 | closed, supply by Heidberg post office |
| Post Office 45 (Querum) | ||
| date | Location | comment |
|---|---|---|
| 1889, March 1st | Post office, Heinrich Langheim
|
|
| 1894, May 1st | Post agency, Heinrich Langheim
|
|
| 1920 | Eichhahnweg 6 | Post agency, Gustav Gerecke |
| 1929 | To Wiesental 2 | Post agency "Braunschweig - Querum", Gisela Horn |
| Branch Post Office (M) | ||
| 1957, October 1st | Branch Post Office (K) | |
| 1959, October 1st | Westfalenplatz 14 | Post office |
| 1966, November 14th | Westfalenplatz 14 | Post Office 45, 1978, June 19 Elke-Ernestine Schwuchow |
| Postplus branch | ||
| Post office 19 (Riddagshausen) | ||
| date | Location | comment |
|---|---|---|
| 1889, April 1st | Nehrkornweg | Post helpline, Karl Grund |
| Nehrkornweg, coffee garden | Post helpline, Karl Grund | |
| around 1900 | Johanniterstraße 4 | Manegold's Coffee Garden |
| 1914 | Johanniterstraße 4 | Friederike Wöhlte |
| 1929, October 1st | Ebertallee 66 | Post office 2nd class, Rolf Schünemann |
| 1960, January 15th | Ebertallee 59 | "Braunschweig-Riddagshausen", Charlotte Brünner |
| 1963, January 1st | Johanniterstraße 2 | |
| 1966, November 14th | Johanniterstraße 2 | Post office I. 25 |
| 1976, January 1st | Johanniterstraße 2 | Post office I. 19, September 1, 1982 Rita Müller |
| 1985, September 26th | Ebertalle 66 | Post office I. 19, Edith Lorenz |
| 1995, May | Ebertalle 66 | closed |
| Post office 16 (Rühme) | ||
| date | Location | comment |
|---|---|---|
| 1887, September 15th | Post office white | |
| Osterbergstrasse 12 | Heinrich Hintze | |
| 1929, October 1st | Osterbergstrasse 12 | Post office second class, Heinrich Hintze |
| Osterbergstrasse 2 | "Braunschweig - Boast / About Braunschweig", Paul Wedemeyer | |
| 1932, April 1st | Gifhorner Strasse 75 | Hermann Lages |
| 1939, April 1st | Osterbergstrasse 2 | Paul Wedemeyer |
| 1952, April 1st | Gifhornerstrasse 80 | Post office 1st class, Johann Mess |
| 1955, August 8th | Mark-Twain-Strasse 3 | Mail room 1st class, Willi Voges
|
| 1961, April 1st | Osterbergstrasse 37 | Mail room 1st class, Sonja Trelewsky |
| 1966, November 14th | Osterbergstrasse 37 | Post office I. 17 |
| 1976, January 1st | Osterbergstrasse 37 | Post office I. 16 |
| 1985, April 1st | Osterbergstrasse 37 | Birgit Neumann |
| 1985, April 15th | Löhrstrasse 17 | Post office I. July 16, 1988 Ingeborg Schlimme |
| 1993, October 15 | Löhrstrasse 17 | closed |
On October 1, 1937, the guidelines for the assessment of services at the Deutsche Reichspost (assessment guidelines) came into force. She also issued on April 14, 1938 guidelines for the evaluation of posts in the area of the DBP (evaluation guidelines). As a result of these guidelines, all departments were divided into two large groups of offices and agencies. With Official Gazette No.56, Order No.175 of June 6, 1944, the inclusion of the postal area code in the stamps was prescribed. Since the rubber stamps were not standardized, there were a variety of shapes and sizes.
In 1939 the construction of a new train station was approved. Then came the Second World War and again the end of the effort. Many offices of the Oberpostdirektion had to be housed in rented buildings and rooms. Due to building damage after air raids in the last years of the war, housing became increasingly difficult.
| Post Office 22 (Lindenbergsiedlung) | ||
| date | Location | comment |
|---|---|---|
| 1958, June 20 | Bunsenstrasse 11a | 1st class post office |
| 1966, November 14th | Bunsenstrasse 11a | Post office 1st class 15 |
| 1976, January 1st | Bunsenstrasse 11a | Post office class I 22, April 1, 1980 Ingeborg Helms |
| 1993, October 15 | Bunsenstrasse 11a | Closed |
Federal Post
With the invasion of the American troops on April 11, 1945 in Braunschweig and the occupation of the main post office, all mail traffic came to a temporary standstill.
Many offices were destroyed in the war years, only the building of the Oberpostdirektion in Friedrich-Wilhelm-Straße, Post Office 7 on Nibelungenplatz and Post Office 8 in St. Wendel-Straße survived the war without any significant damage.
On May 24, 1945, the post office building was opened for refurbishment. The available buildings were not sufficient to accommodate all departments. In 1946, for example, the Oberpostdirektion was forced to accommodate additional offices in rented rooms that were scattered throughout the city.
The Bundespost took over the structure from the Reichspostzeit.
| Post Office 26 (Gartenstadt) | ||
| date | Location | comment |
|---|---|---|
| 1939, January 1st | In the Seumel 8 | Post office "Braunschweig 1 F" |
| 1952, June 1st | Am Turmsberg 23 | Post office, Kurt Probst |
| 1957, October 15th | Post office class I 14, January 1, 1974 Manfred Lüdecke | |
| 1976, January 1st | Post office 1st class 26, Ingeborg Helms | |
| 1980, March 31 | Closed | |
| Post acceptance point 1 G | ||
| date | Location | comment |
|---|---|---|
| 1946, July 5th | Humboldtstrasse 6 | Post office, "Braunschweig 1 G" |
| 1947, March 17th | Jasperallee 32 | "Braunschweig 1 G" |
| 1948, August 31 | Closed | |
| 1949, January 21 | again Humboldtstrasse 6 | Post acceptance point "Braunschweig 1 G" |
| 1949, August 15th | Altewiekring 27a | Stationery child father |
| 1949, December 31st | Closed | Opening of PA 6 (Jasperallee) |
| Post office 44 (Kralenriede) | ||
| date | Location | comment |
|---|---|---|
| 1950, May 1st | Cave 76 | Post office 2nd class, Fritz Nietsche |
| 1950, December 1st | Cave 76 | 1st class post office |
| 1966, November 14th | Cave 76 | Post Office 44
|
In the years up to 1955, post offices 3, 4, 5 and 6 were re-established and post office 10 on Pawelstraße and post office 11 on Salzdahlumer Straße were reopened.
| Post Office 10 (Pawelstrasse) | ||
| date | Location | comment |
|---|---|---|
| 1950, November 16 | Pawelstrasse 9 | Post office 10, corner - Am Hohen Tore 3 |
| 1966, November 14th | Post Office 46 | |
| 1971, December 22nd | Blumenstrasse 1 | Post office 46, Achim Rückert
|
| Post office 11 (Salzdahlumer Straße) | ||
| date | Location | comment |
|---|---|---|
| 1955, June 6th | Salzdahlumer Strasse 193a | Post Office 11 |
| 1966, November 14th | Salzdahlumer Strasse 193a | Post Office 41 |
| 1993, October 10 | Closed | |
| Post Office 13 (Hans Sommer Strasse) | ||
| The student post office | ||
| date | Location | comment |
|---|---|---|
| 1958, December 18 | Hans Sommer Street 6 | Post office 13 (J), Kurt Bergmann |
| 1966, November 14th | Hans Sommer Street 6 | Post office 43, Manfred Mamat,
|
| 1999, May | Closed | Conversion into agency |
| Post office 21 (broken mast) | ||
| date | Location | comment |
|---|---|---|
| 1961, August 7th | Kuxbergstieg 2 | Post office second class, Brendel |
| 1963, October 1st | Reitlingsstrasse 7 | Post office II. Class 20, Herta Heydorn |
| 1966, November 14th | Reitlingsstrasse 7 | Post office II. Class 25, |
| 1976 January 1st | Closed | |
| Post Office 47 (Am Schwarzen Berge) | ||
| date | Location | comment |
|---|---|---|
| 1964, June 1st | Jahnskamp 23 | Post office II. Class 24, Lotte Winninger |
| 1966, November 14th | Jahnskamp 23 | Post office II. Class 23 |
| 1972, November 1st | At the Black Mountains 1 | Post office 47, Ursula Böttger
|
| 1993, October 15 | Closed | |
| Post office 32 (Heidberg) | ||
| date | Location | comment |
|---|---|---|
| 1964, March 1st | Hallestrasse 51 | Post office 1st class, Karl Georg Ludwig |
| 1965, December 31 | Closed | |
| 1966, November 14th | Wittenbergstrasse 12 | Post office 32, Rudolf Berger |
| 1971, June 1st | Jenastieg 18 | Post office 32, Dieter Koch
|
On January 1, 1959, the "Guidelines on the Organization of Post Offices (V)" were reorganized. With the post offices a distinction was made between the post office with administrative service - Postamt (V) - and the post office.
After the organizational guidelines came into force, the post office directorates carried out this reorganization at different speeds. This form of organization is also of great importance for the allocation of postcodes. The designations used in connection with the introduction of these key numbers, such as Leitpostamt, Area Knot Office, etc. have only to do with the position of the postal service within the organizational structure.
On April 16, 1959, the foundation stone for one of the most modern post offices in the Federal Republic was laid at the Braunschweig train station. As the construction phases progressed, the first offices could already be accommodated in the new building on “Berliner Platz” in 1960.
All Braunschweig post offices and post offices were given new post office names on November 14, 1966. The post office at the train station became “Braunschweig 1” and the post office at Friedrich-Wilhelm-Strasse “Braunschweig 31”.
With the introduction of the postcodes in 1961, the rubber stamps were also replaced by normal day stamps at Post Offices II. However, the changeover was not possible as quickly due to the overload of the stamp manufacturers and so an order of April 13, 1962 ordered the replacement of the old rubber stamps with rubber stamps with a new zip code. These stamps were standardized by the Central Post Office in Darmstadt. The exchange of these stamps for metal stamps was carried out in the course of 1963/64.
| Post Office 34 (Broitzemer Strasse) | ||
| date | Location | comment |
|---|---|---|
| 1970, October 20th | Broitzemer Strasse 149 | Post Office 34 (J) |
| 1971 | Traunstraße 2 | Post Office 34, 1979, May 11, Edmund habenstein |
Incorporation from 1974
On March 1, 1974, the area was changed and the following were incorporated into the city of Braunschweig: Bevenrode , Bienrode , Broitzem , Dibbesdorf , Geitelde , Harxbüttel , Hondelage , Lamme , Leiferde , Mascherode , Rautheim , Rüningen , Schapen , Stiddien , Stöckheim , Thune , Timmerlah , Völkenrode , Volkmarode , Waggum , Watenbüttel , Wenden , the municipality-free areas of Buchhorst and Querum as well as parcels of Klein Schöppenstedt and Weddel .
| Bevenrode | ||
| date | Location | comment |
|---|---|---|
| 1889, April 1st | Post office subordinates Wenden, Lütge | |
| 1912, May 1st | Grasseler Strasse 85 | Post helpline reports to Querum, Georg Sammann
|
| 1929, October 1st | Grasseler Strasse 79 | Post office 2nd class, Heinrich Redemann
|
| 1950, November 1st | Grasseler Strasse 87 | Post office second class, Kurt Kämper
|
| 1975, May 31 | closed | |
| Post office 59 (Bienrode) | ||
| date | Location | comment |
|---|---|---|
| 1891, February 1 | Post office to Flechtorf
|
|
| 1933, March 23 | Altmarkstrasse 27 | Post office second class, Hermann Bertram |
| 1938 | Altmarkstrasse 27 | Post office 2nd class, Helene Bertram
|
| 1954, January 1st | Scharenkamp 4 | Post office second class, Fritz Müller |
| 1957, January 15th | Scharenkamp 4 | Post office 1st class, Ingeborg Oppermann, b. Müller |
| 1964, December 2nd | Scharenkamp 4 | First class post office, unmanned |
| 1965, March 1st | Poplar Avenue 5 | Post office, Otto Reichel |
| 1976, January 1st | Poplar Avenue 5 | Post office 59, Frank Daubner |
| Post office 68 (Broitzem) | ||
| In 1919 a post office was set up at Broitzem Airport | ||
| date | Location | comment |
|---|---|---|
| 1888 | Post Agency, Emil Brandes
|
|
| 1903, September 1st | Steinweg 10 | Postal agency |
| 1919 | Broitzem Airfield | Post office |
| 1930 | Brinkstrasse 5 | Post office second class, Heinrich Strube |
| 1945, February 1st | Steinweg 11 | Mail room 1st class, Ursula Beyer |
| 1971, February 1st | Steinbrink 4 | Post office, Hans-Dieter Steinbrink |
| 1976, January 1st | Steinbrink 4 | Post office 68, Hans-Joachim Georg |
| Post office 17 (Dibbesdorf) | ||
| date | Location | comment |
|---|---|---|
| 1883, May 24th | Post office subordinates to Querum, Fricke
|
|
| 1929 | At market 4 | Post office second class, Willi Kresse
|
| 1955, October 1st | In the wooden corner 4 | Gerda Nitsche |
| 1961, October 1st | Wendhäuser Weg 7 | Post office second class, Ingrid Mieter |
| 1964, March 1st | 1st class post office | |
| 1976, January 1st | Post office 1st class 17 | |
| 1977, July 1 | In front of the village 5 | Eleonore Plönnigs |
| 1981, September 1st | In front of the village 2 | Post office 1st class 17, Heidi Heidenreich |
| 1986, December 1st | In front of the village 12 | Post office 1st class 17, Petra Stolze |
| 1993, October 10 | Closed | |
| Post office 24 (Geitelde) | ||
| date | Location | comment |
|---|---|---|
| 1900 | Post office to Leiferde
|
|
| 1933, November 16 | Post office I, is supplied from Wolfenbüttel by the rural power mail course |
|
| 1943, February 21 | Steinberger Strasse 11a | Post office II, of the PA Braunschweig
|
| 1970, July 1 | Emma-Kraume-Strasse 15 | Post office 2nd class, Erika Firl |
| 1976, January 1st | Post office II. Class 24 | |
| 1986, July 1st | Post office II. Class 24, Petra Firl | |
| 1995, November 21 | Geitelder Strasse 26 | Post agency Heide Schönwald |
| Geitelde residential camp | ||
| 1941, July 21 | Post office 2nd class, Ella Buchmann
|
|
| 1943, March 20 | closed | |
| Harxbüttel | ||
| date | Location | comment |
|---|---|---|
| 1910, April 14th | Lagesbüttlerstrasse 2 | Hermann Schaper
|
| 1929 October 1st | Post office 2nd class, Fritz Weber
|
|
| 1937, April 1st | (Village street) | Post office 2nd class, Heinrich Lilie
|
| 1966, October 31 | (Village street) | Post office 2nd class, Johanna Lilie |
| 1974, November 17th | Closed | |
| Post office 62 (Hondelage) | ||
| date | Location | comment |
|---|---|---|
| 1886, April 21 | Shaft drift 2 | Post office, Mr. Brandes |
| 1929, October 1st | Dammstrasse 8 | Post office, Luise Meierhoff |
| 1947 | Dammstrasse 8 | Post office 2nd class, Luise Meierhoff |
| 1962, October 1st | Deep Street 4 | Post office 1st class, Elfriede Goes |
| 1972, October 1st | Deep Street 4 | Post office, Walter Wrehde
|
| 1976, January 30th | Ackerweg 1 f | Post office 62, Bernd Kartheuser
|
| Post Office 11 (Lamme) | ||
| date | Location | comment |
|---|---|---|
| 1897, April 1st | "Pattrup" restaurant? | Post office to Lehndorf
|
| 1923 | "Peine-Paris-Lamme" restaurant | Post office, Emma Neddermeyer |
| 1929, October 1st | later Backhausweg | Post office II class |
| 1948, March 1st | New way, later Backhausweg | Post office second class, Gertrud Geismar |
| 1960, February 1st | Pappelweg 1 | Mail room 1st class, Elfriede Brathering |
| 1976, January 1st | Pappelweg 1 | Post office I. Class 11, 1979, November 1st Rosa Scholz |
| 1980, September 1st | Neudammstrasse 11 | Post office 1st class 11 |
| 1995, November | Closed | |
| Post office 23 (Leiferde) | ||
| date | Location | comment |
|---|---|---|
| 1891 | 1897 Bahnhofstrasse 7 | Post agency, Hermann Bertram
Delivery by postman Haase from Rüningen |
| 1926, April 1st | Bahnhofstrasse 13 | Post office 2nd class, Erich Thiemann
|
| 1950, May 1st | Bahnhofstrasse 7 | Post office 1st class, Heinrich Behrens
|
| 1976, January 1st | Bahnhofstrasse 7 | Mail room 1st class 23
|
| Post office 65 (Mascherode) | ||
| date | Location | comment |
|---|---|---|
| 1933 | At the stone gate 6 | Else Hoffmann |
| 1936, November 1st | Old Rautheimer Weg 3 | Hildegard Jasper |
| 1940, October 1st | At the lime works 15 | Anna Sievers |
| 1946, August 1st | Old Rautheimer Weg 63 | Mail room 1st class, Hildegard Jasper |
| 1959, January 1st | Landwehrstrasse 24 | Post office, Marga Pahlke |
| 1972, September 1st | Old Rautheimer Weg 24 | Post office, Klaus-Dieter Schulze |
| 1976, January 1st | Old Rautheimer Weg 24 | Post Office 65 |
| Post office 64 (Rautheim) | ||
| date | Location | comment |
|---|---|---|
| 1899, April 1st | On city routes | Post agency, later restaurant "New York", Alfred Brandes |
| 1902 | Braunschweiger Strasse 5 | Post agency, Heinrich Knopf |
| 1911, September 29 | Mühlentrift 2 | Post agency, Wilhelm Pilz |
| 1923, April 1st | Mühlentrift 2 | Post agency with simple operation |
| 1944, April 22 | Mühlentrift 2 | Bomb damaged |
| 1944, April 25 | To the Ackerberg | |
| 1946 | (Main road) | Second class post office, 1946 Friedrich Schlubohm
|
| 1955 | Post office 1st class, Margarete, Dölle | |
| 1961, October 1st | Paxmannstrasse | Post office, Karl-Heinz Wilke
|
| 1968, October 21 | Municipal road 2 | –1971, June 14th Günter Schmidt |
| 1976, January 1st | Post Office 64, 1978, January 16, Heinz-Dieter Mönkenmeyer
|
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| Post office 67 (Rüningen) | ||
| date | Location | comment |
|---|---|---|
| 1900 | Post agency, 1900 Haase was a postman
|
|
| 1942 | mail department | |
| Am Westerberge 54 | Post Office (Weststrasse) | |
| 1947, August 15th | Am Westerberge 54 | "Rüningen via Braunschweig", Ernst Brüningk |
| 1964, October 1st | Zollkamp 2 a | Post Office, Kurt Harenberg
from May 1975 Ernst-Dieter Mönkemeyer |
| 1976, January 1st | Zollkamp 2 a | Post Office 67 |
| Post office 18 (Schapen) | ||
| date | Location | comment |
|---|---|---|
| 1905 | Post helpline delivery from Weddel, innkeeper Friedrich Schäfer
|
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| 1929 | Schapenstrasse 13 | Post office, Hogo button |
| 1944, June 26th | Hauptstrasse 13? | Post office second class, Martha Knopf |
| 1957, June 15 | Mail room 1st class, 1966, November 14th Gisela Lindmüller | |
| 1971 | Am Lindenberg 1 | |
| 1976, January 1st | Am Lindenberg 1 | Post office class I 18 |
| 1993, October 15 | Closed | |
| Post Office 28 (Stiddien) | ||
| From December 1, 1940 to April 15, 1942, there was a second class post office in the Stiddien accommodation camp, managed by Hermann Bräutigam |
||
| date | Location | comment |
|---|---|---|
| 1903, September 1st | Post office subordinates to Broitzem | |
| 1929, April 1st | Obere Dorfstrasse 1 | Post office second class, Helene Stüwig |
| 1965, May 1st | Krokusweg 6 | Post office II. Class 28, Monika Kesselring |
| 1976, February 28 | Closed | |
| Post office 66 (Stöckheim (Klein - Stöckheim)) | ||
| Before 1900 there was already a post office | ||
| date | Location | comment |
|---|---|---|
| 1914 | Gasthaus Großes Weghaus | Post office, Hermann Lambrecht |
| 1929, October 1st | Gasthaus Großes Weghaus | Post office, Walter Lambrecht |
| 1930, January 1st | Albertstrasse 7 | Post office second class, Erich Klie |
| 1945, November 1st | Dorfstrasse 9 | Post office second class, Ida Karas |
| 1949, February 1st | 1st class post office | |
| 1957, December 1st | Leipziger Strasse 3 | Branch post office (M), Turscheck bakery |
| 1959, March 13th | Albertstrasse 10 | Post Office (L), |
| 1969, April 1st | Edmund habenstein | |
| 1976, January 1st | Post Office 66, 1979 Otto Walkerling
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| 1999, September | Branch, Wolfgang Wurche | |
| Post office 27 (Thune) | ||
| date | Location | comment |
|---|---|---|
| 1910, April 14th | Restaurant, Willi Peters | Post office subordinates Wenden |
| 1931 | Meinestrasse 12 | Post helpline, Robert Wichmann |
| 1945, October 1st | At Grefenhoop 8 | Post office second class, Friedrich Peyse
|
| 1976, January 1st | Post office II. Class 27 | |
| 1993, October 15 | Closed | |
| Post Office 25 (Timmerlah) | ||
| date | Location | comment |
|---|---|---|
| 1903, September 1st | "Lages" restaurant | Post office, Heinrich Lages |
| 1938 | Nettlingskamp 13 | Post office 2nd class, Ida Lüddecke |
| 1941 | Nettlingskamp 10 | Post office second class, Auguste Mohrmann |
| 1948, December 1st | Nettlingskamp 10 | Post office 1st class, Otto Mohrmann |
| 1967, October 1st | Post office II. Class 25, Helmut Maasberg | |
| 1976, January 1st | Post office II. Class 25 | |
| Post office 13 (Völkenrode) | ||
| In Völkenrode there was a second class post office each for the "Joint Research Institute" and for the "Agricultural Research Institute" | ||
| date | Location | comment |
|---|---|---|
| 1887, September 1st | Pottgerbrink 50 | Post office, Marie Fricke |
| 1947, March 1st | Peiner Strasse 120 | Post office 2nd class, Helene Kaufmann,
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| 1965, October 1st | In the meadows 13 | Post office 1st class, Bärbel Kampmann
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| 1976, January 1st | Mail room I class 13 | |
| 1977, November 30th | Closed | |
| "Community camp research institute above Braunschweig" | ||
| 1937, June 28th | In the farm building | Post office second class, Karl Bartz
|
| 1945, June 1st | Closed | |
| "Agricultural Research Institute Braunschweig" | ||
| 1949, May 5th | In the administration building | Post office second class, Christel Leske, Marianne Stendel, 1951 Ernst Kassel, Tilly Schönerstedt |
| 1952, March 16 | In the administration building | 1st class post office |
| 1971, December 31st | Closed | Ursula Maass |
| Post Office 63 (Volkmarode) | ||
| date | Location | comment |
|---|---|---|
| 1883, May 1st | Post office, Carl Eickenberg, E. Schönian | |
| 1969, April 1st | In Remenfeld 5 | Post office, newly established in 3301 |
| 1976, January 1st | 3301 Post Office 63 | |
| 1999, June 14th | Closed | |
| Post Office 61 (Waggum) | ||
| From 1936 to 1938 there was a post office at the airport | ||
| date | Location | comment |
|---|---|---|
| 1912, May 1st | "To the Green Forest", later "Im Schühfeld 13" |
Post helpline, Erwin Jordan, Ernst Weber |
| 1935 | Heinrichstrasse 13? | Otto Lily |
| 1945 | Bienroder Strasse 18 | Post office 2nd class, Otto Behrens |
| 1957, July 15th | Bienroder Strasse 18 | Mail room 1st class, Ursula Schmitz |
| 1971, June 1st | Waggum Post Office | |
| 1976, January 1st | Post Office 61, 1981, September 1, Hans-Peter Staack | |
| Waggum Airport | ||
| 1936, June 15 | mail department | "Waggum Airport / via Braunschweig" |
| 1938, December 20th | End of flight on August 26, 1939 | Closed |
| Post office 69 (Watenbüttel) | ||
| date | Location | comment |
|---|---|---|
| 1887, September 1st | Post office, Heinrich Behrens
|
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| 1910, November 1st | Peiner Strasse | Post agency, Berta, later Friedrich Neddermeyer |
| 1952, May 1st | At grass place 2 | Post office 2nd class, Martin Mäder |
| 1958, November 1st | At grass place 2 | Post office 1st class, Elfriede Mäder |
| 1972, October 1st | Celler Heerstrasse 302 | Post office 1st class, Ingeborg Helms |
| 1976, January 1st | Post office class I 14 | |
| 1977, December 1st | Peiner Strasse 10 | Post Office 69 |
| Post Office 58 (Wenden) | ||
| date | Location | comment |
|---|---|---|
| 1887, September 1st | Karl Bark restaurant | Post Agency, Heinrich Lillie |
| 1896 | Old Postweg 1 | Post agency, Fritz Hoppmann |
| 1907 | (Ackerweg) | Post Agency, Karl Hansen
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| 1920, December 20th | Hauptstrasse 30 | Post agency, Otto Hennecke |
| 1939, April 1st | Hauptstrasse 30 | 1st class post office |
| 1939, July 1st | Hauptstrasse 30 | Post office |
| 1946 | Old Postweg 1 | Branch post office (J), Arnold Krügener
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| 1962, December 15th | Veltenhöfer Strasse 3 | Branch Post Office (J) |
| 1970, April 1st | Veltenhöfer Strasse 3 | Post office (J), 1970, April 1st to (H)
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| 1976, January 1st | Veltenhöfer Strasse 3 | Post Office 58 |
See also
- Duchy of Brunswick
- Postal history and postage stamps of Braunschweig
- Braunschweiger Poststempel An overview of the forms of the Ducal Braunschweig-Lüneburg postmarks
- Brunswick coin history
- Brunswick finance laws
literature
- Rudolf Knackstedt: The history of the post offices in the city of Braunschweig. Self-published, Braunschweig 1988.
- Mr. Wolfgang Zinecker made his knowledge and collection available for evaluation without restriction.
- Horst-Rüdiger Jarck , Gerhard Schildt (ed.): The Braunschweigische Landesgeschichte. A region looking back over the millennia . 2nd Edition. Appelhans Verlag, Braunschweig 2001, ISBN 3-930292-28-9 .
- Heinrich Bernhards: On the development of the postal system in Braunschweig-Lüneburg, especially the younger line Calenberg-Celle. Inaugural dissertation to obtain a doctorate from the high philosophical and natural science faculty of the Westphalian Wilhelms University in Münster iW, Ernst Geibel, publishing house, Hanover 1911.
- Richard Schucht: The postal system in Braunschweig. In: Braunschweigisches Magazin. from No. 18 ff. 1897 to 1902. with some copies of important files.
- Wilhelm Schrader: The Braunschweigische Landespost was abolished 75 years ago. In: Braunschweigische Heimat, magazine for nature and homeland care, regional and folklore, history and literature of Eastern Falcons. Issue 1, 1943.
- Henri Bade: 333 years of Braunschweigische Post, 1535–1867. Verlag Karl Pfankuch & Co, Braunschweig 1960.
- Werner Steven: The postal servants in Braunschweig, 1868 to 1907. in issue 2001 of the regional center of the German Society for Post and Telecommunication History eV - staff of the OPD, the Hof post office to the city post office.
- Evaluation of the "District Gazette of the Oberpostdirektion Braunschweig" 1948–1970.
Individual evidence
- ^ Michel Germany catalog 1999/2000. Schwaneberger Verlag, 1999, ISBN 3-87858-028-2 .
- ↑ Bernd Schneidmüller: The new home of the Guelphs (1225–1252). In: The Braunschweigische Landesgeschichte, a millennium review of a region. Appelhans Verlag, Braunschweig 2000, ISBN 3-930292-28-9 , p. 177 (The foundation of the Duchy of Braunschweig).
- ^ Wilhelm Schrader: The Braunschweigische Landespost was abolished 75 years ago. In: Braunschweigische Heimat. Issue 1, 1943.