Telephone office at Schlueterstrasse

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Facade to Schlüterstraße with main entrance (2006)

The Schlüterstrasse telephone exchange in Hamburg-Rotherbaum was built by the Reichspost from 1902 to 1907 as the central telephone exchange for Hamburg. Later that housed brick building , the telephone exchange 1 Hamburg and the post office HH13 . The design in neo-Gothic style comes from the secret building officer Paul Schuppan and the post building officer Willy Sucksdorf. The building has been a listed building since 1998.

Construction and architecture

Main entrance hall (1908)
Telephone office at Schlueterstrasse around 1908

In addition to the telephone connections in Hamburg itself , the neighboring towns of Altona , Wandsbek and Schiffbek , which at that time did not belong to the city and which form an economic unit with Hamburg, were to be connected. Accordingly, the location was chosen so that a circle with a radius of five kilometers around the telephone exchange encompasses the city of Hamburg (within the boundaries before 1937 ) and the aforementioned areas. In 1901 the Reich Postal Administration acquired the building site for the construction of the switching center from the City of Hamburg for a purchase price of 857,000 marks . The plot has a rectangular shape and a size of 11,430 m², so the price per square meter was almost 75 M / m². Since the mark was covered with gold in 1902 , the price per square meter corresponds to the then value of 0.864 troy ounces of gold; in purchasing power parity that is around 514 € / m².

The building is located at Schlüterstrasse 51–55 / the corner of Binderstrasse 26–30 in the Grindelviertel not far from the main southern campus of the University of Hamburg with the Philturm and the Audimax building, both of which were built in the post-war period. To the west, the building borders the site of the Bornplatz synagogue, which was destroyed in 1938, and the Talmud Torah school . To the east is Rothenbaumchaussee , which runs parallel to Schlüterstrasse . At the level of the telephone exchange is the ethnological museum , which was built around the same time as the telephone exchange.

The building has a symmetrically designed main front with a width of 138 m facing Schlüterstrasse.

Usage history

Location of the telephone exchange with populated / unpopulated areas (pale red / white) and distance circles (2.5 / 5.0 / 7.5 km), areas outside the former city limits are darkened. (Hamburg city map from 1900 from the Christian Terstegge collection)

In 1908, the telephone exchange started operations at its new location.

In 1910 the switching offices I and Ia were added for local traffic.

On May 2, 1924, Nordischer Rundfunk (NORAG) was the first North German radio station to go on air in the central telephone office. The actual transmitter was located on the third floor, the machine and accumulator room on the second floor, while the recording room was housed in a side wing. The first broadcasting director Hans Bodenstedt spoke from there with "Here is NORAG" the first words that went on the air. A concert hall for live radio broadcasting was also located in the building on Binderstrasse. In 1931, NORAG, for whom the rented rooms in the central telephone office had long since become too small, moved to the newly built radio house (today NDR radio house) at Rothenbaumchaussee 132.

The building was partially destroyed by bombs in 1943 and rebuilt from 1947 to 1951.

After the end of the war, there were systems and employees in two rooms of Telecommunications Office 1 for eavesdropping on telephone calls by the British occupying forces .

In 2003, Deutsche Telekom sold the building to a fund company of the Wölbern bank because the city of Hamburg did not want to pay the purchase price of 60 million euros demanded at the time. The city was interested in the building for use by the University of Hamburg. In January 2020 it was announced that the city would rent the building for 30 years from 2023 in order to use it as an extension to the neighboring university campus. The total cost should amount to 440 million euros.

gallery

  • Main entrance (1908)

  • Main entrance (2006)

  • Detail, facade to Schlüterstraße (2006)

  • First courtyard

  • View from the 2nd courtyard into the 1st courtyard

  • Second courtyard

literature

  • General draft for the construction of a new central telephone exchange in Hamburg . In: Zentralblatt der Bauverwaltung , vol. XXII, No. 73 (September 13, 1902), urn : nbn: de: kobv: 109-opus-35779 , pp. 445–446. (Report from the Royal Academy of Civil Engineering)
  • History of the telephone exchange 1 in Hamburg , part 1 (1887–1927). Hermann, Hamburg 1927, signature 1931 A 143 at the DNB . (Publication of the telephone exchange, without publisher information)
  • History of the telephone exchange 1 in Hamburg , part 2 (1927–1937). Hamburg 1937, PPN 337867992 at the SUB Hamburg . (Like part 1)
  • Janzen (telegraph inspector): [Technical installation of the Hamburg remote office]. In: Electrotechnical Journal . Vol. 31 (1910), No. 29, 30 and 32, ISSN  0424-0200 .
  • Henry Koehlert: When the people of Hamburg learned to make a phone call: Hamburg's telecommunications office 1 on Schlueterstrasse is 100 years old today : In: Hamburger Abendblatt No. 77/1987 of April 1, 1987, p. 9.
  • Josef Lucke (Lector), Telecommunications Office Hamburg (Ed.): 100 Years Telecommunications Office 1 Hamburg: 1887–1987 . Bergedorfer Buchdruckerei, Hamburg 1987.
  • The new telephone exchange in Hamburg . In: Zentralblatt der Bauverwaltung , Vol. XXVIII, No. 21 (March 14, 1908), urn : nbn: de: kobv: 109-opus-41547 , pp. 150–155.

Web links

Commons : Post building Schlüterstrasse (Hamburg)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ List of monuments of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg , as of April 13, 2010. ( Memento from June 27, 2011 in the Internet Archive ; PDF; 915 kB) Monument Protection Office in the Authority for Culture, Sport and Media, as of April 13, 2010. Hamburg 2010, P. 151, list of monuments no. 1185.
  2. ^ The new telephone exchange in Hamburg . In: Zentralblatt der Bauverwaltung , Vol. XXVIII (1908), No. 21, pp. 150–155.
  3. ↑ 75 years of radio in Northern Germany: 1924–1929: Seven hours of programming daily . For the history of the NDR on the NDR website; Retrieved May 14, 2011.
  4. ↑ Hans-Ulrich Wagner: 80 years of Funkhaus on Rothenbaumchaussee . For the history of the NDR on the NDR website; Retrieved May 14, 2011.
  5. ↑ Executed in lines: telephone surveillance . In: Der Spiegel . No. 40 , 1953, pp. 5-6 ( online ).
  6. ↑ welt.de New trouble at Wölbern Invest Die Welt, May 18, 2013, accessed on March 25, 2015
  7. ↑ Schlueterstrasse: University should rent the Alte Post . In: Hamburger Abendblatt , October 12, 2006.
  8. ↑ Marc Hasse: "A piece of Oxford" - University researchers move into old post office. In: Abendblatt.de. January 27, 2020, accessed on January 29, 2020 (German).
  9. ↑ This is how a telecommunications office becomes a science center

Coordinates: 53 ° 34 ′ 6.5 ″  N , 9 ° 59 ′ 8 ″  E