Post office Bremen 5
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The Post Office Bremen 5 , also known as the main post office 5 , was the central building of the Oberpostdirektion Hannover near the main train station in Bremen and for many years one of the largest buildings in the Hanseatic city. It has been a listed building since 1993. From 1996, large parts of the house stood empty for a long time and were only partially used.
construction
The purchase contract for the building plot directly at the train station was signed on July 8, 1915. After that, however, the schedule fell behind due to the First World War . In 1922 an architecture competition was held, from which the architect Carl Rotermund emerged as the winner. The second-placed design by the Bremen architect Rudolf Jacobs was then implemented from 1923 onwards . Richard Kuöhl , who was famous at the time, was won over to design the coat of arms with the shield bearers above the entrance porch . Construction took three years and was completed in 1926. In the late 1980s, the building was completely gutted and the facade rebuilt. For the connection to the railway, a new hall was built behind the listed building section.
history
The Post Office Bremen 5 was the central building of the Hanover Post Office in Bremen. It was owned by the Reichspost for 70 years , then by the Deutsche Bundespost and, after the reunification, by the Deutsche Post . From 1939 (with interruption) to 1945 the central field post office was here. In 1944 it became the central mail collection point and mail control center for the Post. Even after the war it was, among other things, a mail center , warehouse and post office. The name Hauptpostamt 5 was therefore common for a long time. Because of its proximity to the main train station, a parcel center with a siding was planned and built in the 1990s . However, in the course of the privatization and rationalization of the post, this location was given up.
The postal company initially withdrew from the building in 1996. After four years of vacancy, Deinböck Capital-Management AG from Munich took over the former post office 5 in June 2000. One year later, the post office opened a branch there again. Since then, Deutsche Post AG and Postbank have been offering their services to customers there.
There were numerous plans for the future of the building. Demolition was out of the question, as the facade is listed. Shortly after the sale, consideration was given to converting it into a shopping and service center, and it was also under discussion as the headquarters of an Internet operator. In 2012 a supermarket was opened on the ground floor.
Currently, the house is also used by a photo studio for advertising (since 2005), a decoration company with a shop, a hostel, several dance studios, an architect's office, a fitness center, a training center for gastronomy including a restaurant and other businesses.
Other uses
At the end of the 1990s, several exhibitions took place in the former Post Office 5, for example:
- September 1998 to December 1998: Insects - The secret rulers
- March 1999 to June 1999: 4 million years of human existence
- February 2010 to May 2010 Body Worlds - A matter of the heart
Plans from 2006/2007 that a Protestant grammar school should move in here were not implemented.
Until May 2007, many empty rooms were used as rehearsal rooms for around 48 music groups . From May 2007, parts of the house were used as an office by the Evangelical Church to plan the German Evangelical Church Congress , which took place in Bremen in 2009.
From November 2010 the Senator's Office for Labor, Women, Health, Youth and Social Affairs and its office were temporarily in the building due to a construction project, and rooms were also rented by other Bremen authorities.
In 2011 the State Archeology of Bremen got its new location here.
The construction of 300 apartments for students is planned in the adjacent track hall, which was only built in the late 1980s and closed in 1996.
literature
- Chamber of Architects Bremen, BDA Bremen and Senator for Environmental Protection and Urban Development (ed.): Architecture in Bremen and Bremerhaven , Example 28. Worpsweder Verlag, Bremen 1988, ISBN 3-922516-56-4 .
Individual evidence
- ^ Monument database of the LfD
- ↑ http://www.weser-kurier.de/bremen/vermischtes2_artikel,-Ein-Supermarkt- sucht-ins-Postamt-5-_arid, 418589.html
- ↑ Social department in motion. senatspressestelle.bremen.de, October 29, 2010, accessed on May 9, 2011 .
- ↑ Elke Gundel: Transitional quarters in the old post office 5 at the train station - registry office renovation should start in March , Weser-Kurier, January 10, 2012.
- ↑ New location for state archeology. senatspressestelle.bremen.de, May 6, 2011, accessed on May 9, 2011 .
- ^ Weser-Kurier, March 8, 2014.
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Coordinates: 53 ° 4 ′ 54 ″ N , 8 ° 48 ′ 56 ″ E