Main Post Office Dresden 6

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Post office in Königsbrücker Strasse with postal advertising from GDR times:
"- in all the world - from all over the world +"
Post office Koenigsbrücker Strasse
former ticket hall
Post logo
The main post office Dresden 6 on a postage stamp from 1982
The Dresden-Neustadt post office during the renovation, clearly recognizable the vertical (left) and horizontal (right) structure.

The former main post office Dresden 6 is a post office at Königsbrücker Straße 21 in Dresden . It is an example of Dresden Modernism in the 1960s.

description

The building complex, consisting of a high main building followed by a low extension, was built by Wolfram Starke and Kurt Nowotny from 1962 to 1964 .

The main building has five floors. While the facade emphasizes the horizontal, the vertical, narrow concrete struts of the stairwell emphasize the vertical. Red and blue window squares hide the stairwell. The elaborate face design is remarkable. This shows a mosaic-like facade design with cut natural stones. Special attention is paid to the effect of the natural stone material used: "In the mosaic-like treatment of the facade with small-cut natural stones, the concept of post-war modernism is reflected less in a decorative application than in the quality of the facade material."

The two-storey extension with a blue-tiled front contained the counter hall and canteen. The building has one facade facing Lößnitzstrasse and another one facing Königsbrücker Strasse. While the façade facing Lößnitzstrasse is characterized by a large, large-scale, cantilevered dining room, the other façade is set back from Königsbrücker Strasse.

The building is a typical example of the "Eastern cult of the sixties". Despite the usual reinforced concrete skeleton construction , the “effort to create a representative and appealing design can be recognized.” The main entrance of EG Clauss has been decorated with a white, pink, light blue, turquoise green and dark blue, geometric tile mosaic made from Meissen porcelain .

Michael Müller from the State Office for the Preservation of Monuments, who added the counter hall to the list of monuments in 1995, said that the building was “of high artistic and design quality; it is in no way inferior to modern architecture in Western Europe. No trace of material shortages and prefabricated building standards: natural stone and glass were elaborately processed, the steel frame construction and the possibilities of concrete used imaginatively. "

The main building was renovated in 2014. The original vertical structure was replaced by a horizontal structure.

literature

Tile detail
  • Gilbert Lupfer, Bernhard Sterra and Martin Wörner (eds.): Architecture guide Dresden . Dietrich Reimer Verlag, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-496-01179-3 .
  • Siiri Klose: Unused Eastern design. The post office on Königsbrücker Straße is one of the earliest examples of modern building in Dresden. In: Sächsische Zeitung of May 4, 2004.
  • Holger Gantz: 100 buildings in Dresden: A guide to buildings of historical and architectural importance . Schnell and Steiner, Regensburg 1997, ISBN 3-7954-1111-4 .
  • Walter May , Werner Pampel and Hans Konrad: Architectural Guide GDR, Dresden District . VEB Verlag für Bauwesen, Berlin 1979.
  • Wolfram Starke , Kurt Nowotny , Lothar Heinrich, Günter Biermann: "Main Post Office Dresden 6", in: Deutsche Architektur , Vol. 14 (1965), Issue 2, pp. 90f. ISSN  0323-3413

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Gantz, pp. 50f., No. 44
  2. ↑ a b c das-neue-dresden.de
  3. ↑ Lupfer et al., P. 115, object no. 167.
  4. ↑ May et al., P. 39, image no. 39.

Web links

Commons : Postamt Dresden Neustadt  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Coordinates: 51 ° 4 ′ 2.3 "  N , 13 ° 44 ′ 48.7"  E