Schwerin main post office

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View of Mecklenburgstrasse
Post office, courtyard, Pfaffenteich

The former main post office in Schwerin , also known as the old post office , in the Altstadt district , Mecklenburgstrasse 4/6, is a monument in Schwerin . The building housed the Post and Postbank, an event and exhibition room, and offices. In 2019, the state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania decided to purchase the vacant building to revitalize Mecklenburgstrasse for 4.5 million euros.

history

1962: Post on National Unity Road
West side with tower
Clock and coat of arms

From the 14th century a building of the bishop's residence stood here. From 1821 to 1843 it was the location of the staff of the artillery battery and a prince's court. From 1846 to 1892 the three-story old post office was here , which soon became too small for the increasing mail traffic.

The three-storey main post office in the historicizing neo-renaissance style , in L-shape with two wings in what was then Kaiser-Wilhelm-Strasse , was built between 1892 and 1897 according to plans by the secret post office building officer Ernst Hake together with the architect Daegert. It has a rectangular, dominant seven-storey clock tower with an octagonal top, with a lantern and a pointed bell dome . Nine risalite gables in Baroque style structure and shape the two wings facing the street and courtyard. The banding emphasizes the corners and integrates the windows creatively.

The representative counter hall with the double columns and a cross vault has been preserved. Heinrich von Stephan , State Secretary in the Reich Post Office had applied for building funds for the project and also accompanied the implementation. The construction cost around one million marks.

It was the main post office for Mecklenburg , i.e. for the two grand duchies of Mecklenburg-Schwerin and Mecklenburg-Strelitz . The seven-field Mecklenburg coat of arms on the front of the clock symbolizes this.

The architect and post office building officer Hake managed and planned u. a. Post and telegraph offices as well as directorates such as the Oberpostdirektion Bremen , in Dortmund , in Chemnitz , Post- und Telegrafenamt Flensburg , Oberpostdirektion Hamburg , as well as in Greifswald , Thorn , Lübeck , Oldenburg and Oberpostdirektion Strasbourg

Monuments

Monument to Heinrich von Stephan
  • In front of the post office is the marble monument to Heinrich von Stephan , 1898 by Wilhelm Wandschneider ; Implemented in 1998, originally on the north bank of the Pfaffenteich , relief renewed after destruction; von Stephan became an honorary citizen of Schwerin in 1896.
  • Memorial plaque for the victims of the Kapp Putsch, to the right of the main entrance. In 1920, during the Kapp Putsch against the Weimar Republic , there was a base of the putschists in the post office. From here they opened fire on demonstrators in March 1920. On the board are the names of 15 people from Schwerin who died in this attack.

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Web links

Commons : Post office building (Schwerin)  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Schweriner People's Newspaper of September 27, 2019: Schwerin: Green light for purchase of the post office building.

Coordinates: 53 ° 37 ′ 48.4 "  N , 11 ° 24 ′ 45.4"  E