Main Post Office (St. Gallen)
The main post office of the city of St. Gallen is located on Bahnhofsplatz opposite the train station . It was built between 1911 and 1915 as the city's third post office building.
history
Along with the redesign of the station district, the desire arose to build a new main post office that could meet the demands of the growing city. In 1907 a "competition to obtain drafts for the uniform architectural design of the facades of the post office building and the new reception and administration building of the SBB in St. Gallen, as well as the reception building of the narrow-gauge station and the connecting corridor to the latter" was announced. 25 drafts were received, whereby no 1st place was awarded. Three designs came in second place: the design by Pflegehard and Haefeli, Zurich, the design by Curjel and Moser, St. Gallen, and the design by Kuder and Senger from Zurich. Two designs came in 3rd place. The design by Montando & Odier, Geneva and the design by Yonner & Grassi, Neuchâtel. The Federal Department of the Interior entrusted Pflegehard and Haefeli with the execution of the post office building, while the SBB entrusted Alexander von Senger with the further processing . This did not result in a uniform design like the project competition had intended. Nevertheless, the definitive plans by Pflegehard and Haefeli were adapted to the project by Kuder and von Senger. The construction management was entrusted to Ernst Kuhn and Muth. Construction on the marshy site began in 1911 and the structure was completed in 1915.
building
It is a construction made of reinforced concrete, which was clad with St. Margrether sandstone. The closed building block has a strict objectivity. There are arched openings in the base, above there are three upper floors, which are covered by a hipped roof. On the northwest side there is a striking clock tower with a tent roof.
literature
- INSA inventory of newer Swiss architecture 1850–1921 . Volume 8. Orell Füssli, St. Gallen / Sarnen / Schwyz / Schaffhausen 1996, ISBN 3-280-02410-2 , pp. 108-109a.
- Kunstverein St. Gallen and Peter Röllin (ed.): Embroidery time. Culture and art in St. Gallen 1870–1930. VGS, St. Gallen 1989, ISBN 3-7291-1052-7 , pp. 130-133.
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Schweizerische Bauzeitung 50 (1907), page 246
Coordinates: 47 ° 25 '21 " N , 9 ° 22' 12.3" E ; CH1903: 745729 / two hundred and fifty-four thousand two hundred and three