Royal Post Office (Marienberg)

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Royal Post Office (Marienberg)
Royal Post Office

The Royal Post Office is a listed building in the historic city center of Marienberg, which is a World Heritage Site .

history

Friedrich Wilhelm Heinrich von Trebra ; House owner of the building at Freiberger Straße 6 next to the mining office from 1774 to 1780

The house is likely to have partially survived the great fire damage of the 17th century. A large part of the building fabric dates from the 18th century. Until the 19th century, mainly traders and scholars were house owners. Johann Christoph Hasper, Magister, Marienberg pastor and headmaster of the Marienberg Latin School, married to the merchant's daughter Johanna Maria Jahn, took over the former home of his wife on May 25, 1731. His portrait is in the Annaberg town church not far from the altar. He was the author of various theological and humanistic writings.

Friedrich Wilhelm Heinrich von Trebra , Saxon chief miner and friend of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe , was the house owner of the building at Freiberger Str. 6 next to the building at Freiberger Str. 4, which was open to the public from October 22, 1774 to September 27, 1780. The Bergamtsstube was already in 1767 in the private apartment of Friedrich Wilhelm Heinrich von Trebras, in the building at Freiberger Strasse 6 (OLN 308), which he finally acquired in 1774 from the house owner Johann Friedrich Christ. He moved into this house on December 1, 1767, which was previously inhabited by the previous Marienberg miner Carl Ernst Schmid.

“The now lonely house, rented from the former Bergmeister, who had already moved to Schneeberg with his numerous family for several weeks, took me and my servant into its total emptiness, with all the good decisions and hopes from which I until Was crowded "

A renewed rise in mining in the mining town made it necessary to set up a separate, public mining office. This was set up in 1771 on the ground floor of the adjacent building, Freiberger Strasse No. 4 (OLN 309). He acquired citizenship by owning building no. 6, next to the later mining office . After Friedrich Wilhelm Heinrich von Trebras left Marienberg in 1780, the Marienberg Montanist, Mining Office Scopist and shift supervisor Johann Friedrich Gotthelf Buchner acquired the building. From 1826 to 1866 the house served as a post office and is now a privately owned residential and commercial building.

Royal Post Office

From 1833 to 1866 the building Freiberger-Str. 6 a post office with a passage to Marienstraße 13. Rittmeister Friedrich Alexander Just, since December 3, 1833 royal. Saxon. Postmaster zu Marienberg, acquired the two consecutive house plots Freiberger Straße 6 and Marienstraße 13 for the postal expedition and the post office. The latter has been a desolate construction site since the Swedish invasion in 1639. A garden that Friedrich Wilhelm Heinrich von Trebra had laid out in front of the building at Freiberger Strasse No. 4 above and which existed at this point until 1863, became the cause of repeated differences with the new owner of the post office building.

Gottlob Leberecht Heidel, previously postmaster in Hohnstein, was hired for the Marienberg postal service in June 1847. The Marienberg post office with mail expedition and post office was still located on the property just acquired. The postage stamp was introduced during the official activity of Heidel in 1850 . The previously widespread wooden mailboxes thus gained greater importance. On September 19, 1850, Heidel announced in the Marienberger Wochenblatt that it was best to make use of the mailbox placed in the entrance hall of the post office on the left for posting franked letters.

Post holder Theodor Eugen Francke (1859–1864) established iron mailboxes in the villages .

On February 1, 1866, the Chemnitz-Annaberger Railway went into operation near Marienberg. The post office later moved from Freibergerstrasse 6 to Zschopauer Strasse 10 and - in order to be closer to the newly built train station, the new post office was built on Poststrasse.

1945 to 1989

Otto Burckhardt, descendant of the trading family who had lived and worked in the house since 1881 and operator of a retail trade in tobacco goods and a trade in wine and health food products, committed suicide in his business premises in 1946 in the period following the expropriations of the Soviet occupation zone. On November 15, 1948, the trade organization was founded, which took over the business in the house.

A total demolition down to the foundation walls for the construction of a department store was aimed at by the Marienberg city council in 1980 but not carried out. After a complete renovation from 1980 to 1988, an exquisite store of the trade organization was set up throughout the house, which closed again in 1989. Due to the open property issues of the former GDR, the house fell into the hands of the trust company and was empty until 2014.

architecture

Entrance hall with four cross vaults
Entrance hall with four cross-vaulted fields

The stately baroque building with a mansard roof in the closed development is accessed through a wide central entrance. In addition to the 17 m long hallway with four cross-vault fields without belt arch partitions , you get to the right into the room with three cross-vault fields. The room to the left of the hallway leads into a kitchen vault. Another room with three cross-vaulted fields, which are separated by belt arches, completes the building with the courtyard on the left. In a rear area, a staircase leads to a spacious basement, the structure of which is characterized by a floor carved directly into the rock. With the rock layering, the floor gradually settles down through several barrel rooms and a few branching side passages. Elements from the Wilhelminian style and Art Nouveau can be found on the upper floor of the house . Compared to the neighboring buildings, the building is twice as deep. The courtyard was of adequate size for the use of stagecoaches. The pointed roof was shortened to a mansard roof around 1900 for a second floor .

swell

  • Paul Roitzsch: Marienberger house chronicle and hall history . Volume 16/1, manuscript 1964
  • Erzgebirge news and advertising paper 1824
  • Leipziger Zeitung 1834
  • Werner Wittig: Friedrich Wilhelm Heinrich von Trebra 1740-1819. His life from the perspective of a Marienberger on the 200th anniversary of his death, Freiberger Werkstätten "Friedrich von Bodelschwingh", Freiberg 2019
  • Marienberg / Sa. Historical views . Printing and publishing company, Marienberg 1995
  • Friedrich Wilhelm Heinrich von Trebra, Bergmeister life and work in Marienberg . Graz & Gerlach, VEB German publishing house for basic industry 1818/1990, Freiberg / Leipzig, 1818
  • The postal constitution of the Kingdom of Saxony: According to official sources, illustrated by GF Hüttner . [1]
  • Detailed list of monuments, individual monuments, municipality: Marienberg, city, latitude: 50 ° 39 '4 ", longitude: 13 ° 9' 54" [2]
  • Marienberg and its main building . Hermann Schmidt / Renner u. Ketzschau, Dresden [around 1845] [3]
  • Description: The mountain town of Marienberg in 1860 . Signed by M. Gottschalk, lith. by H. Williard, Dietrich, Marienberg; J. Braunsdorf, Dresden 1860 [4]

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Paul Roitzsch: Marienberger Hauschronik und Flurgeschichte: Volume 16/1 manuscript 1964 . Ed .: City administration Marienberg.
  2. ^ Christian Wilhelm Friedrich Schmid: Fragments for the attempt of a scholarly history of bored Marienbergers . 1806 ( google.de [accessed on February 28, 2019]).
  3. ↑ Elector's Saxon, graciously privileged mountain calendar: to the ... year after the birth of Christ, with the entire Saxon mountain state, the accessible pits and other useful attachments. 1776 . Orphanage, 1776 ( google.de [accessed March 5, 2019]).
  4. ↑ Friedrich Wilhelm Heinrich von Trebra: Bergmeister life and work in Marienberg: from 1. Decbr. 1767 to August 1779 . Craz and Gerlach, 1818 ( google.de [accessed March 5, 2019]).
  5. ^ Paul Roitzsch: Chronicle of houses in the Annaberg district . In: Marienberger Stadtverwaltung (Hrsg.): House Chronicle Marienberg .
  6. ^ Hans Marold: Chronicle of Pobershau Marienberg - Zöblitz 1771 - 1800 . Ed .: Hans Marold. tape 1 . Druckerei Olbernhau GmbH, Olbernhau March 2001, p. 132 .
  7. ^ Paul Roitzsch: Marienberger Hauschronik und Flurgeschichte: Volume 16/1 manuscript 1964 . Ed .: City administration Marienberg.
  8. ^ Paul Roitzsch: Marienberger Postal History according to the files of the city archive in 1925 . Ed .: City administration Marienberg.
  9. ^ Lothar Riedel: Erzgebirgische Heimatblätter . Ed .: Cultural Association of the German Democratic Republic. Sachsdruck Plauen BT Falkenstein / V.
  10. ^ Paul Roitzsch: Marienberger Hauschronik und Flurgeschichte: Volume 16/1 manuscript 1964 . Ed .: City administration Marienberg.

Coordinates: 50 ° 39 '3.8 "  N , 13 ° 9' 53.4"  E