Imperial Post Office Directorate (Bremen)

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The building in 2006
Seal of the Imperial Post Office Directorate (Bremen)
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The former Kaiserliche Oberpostdirektion is a building in the old town of Bremen , located at Domsheide 15.

The Imperial Oberpostdirektion Bremen was as Safety Authority from 1 January 1874 to 1,919 a Oberpostdirektion (OPD) of the imperial post . In 1919 this became an OPD of the Reich Post Ministry and from 1934 to 1945 a Reichspostdirektion (RPD) and from 1945 an OPD of the zone and from 1950 to January 1, 1995 an OPD of the Deutsche Bundespost , which was dissolved and became Deutsche Post AG . In the course of privatization, Post AG initially named all OPDs as the Postal Service Directorate ; In 1999 the directorates ceased to exist.

prehistory

In the first years of the 19th century there were post offices in several states in Bremen, interrupted by the Napoleonic era , of which the Prussian one was located in Eschenhof an der Domsheide from 1805 to 1819 and then on the ground floor of the town hall .

After the founding of the North German Confederation (as a civil institution on July 1, 1867) with Bremen's participation, the postal system in its territory was standardized to form the North German Post District under Prussian administration. There was a post office in Bremen and the other two Free Hanseatic Cities . After the establishment of the empire in 1871, the north German post and telegraph system merged with that of the empire. From now Imperial Oberpostamtszeitung in 1874, the Imperial Oberpostdirektion whose space the premises of the post Comptoirs in the Stadthaus by far exceeded.

The Bremen Senate made the Eschenhof available as a piece of land, which had housed the Prussian post office between 1805 and 1819 (see above). The name of this property goes to the baron Alexander Ersken , who became president of the Swedish duchies of Bremen and Verden in 1653 and lived here from the year until his death. With the Reichsdeputationshauptschluss 1803 the property was transferred to the city of Bremen. The secondary school has been housed here since 1819 .

building

The three-storey four-wing complex on Domsheide and four-storey on Dechanatstrasse was built from 1875 to 1879 according to a design by Carl Schwatlo and extensive redesign in the newly created building department in the Reich Post Office by August Kind for 1.89 million marks and under the construction management of Reg.Builder Ernst Hake built to concentrate the distributed parts of the postal service. The representative building was created in the style of the German Neo-Renaissance construction forms that are common throughout the Reich for this type of building . On October 1st, 1878 the inauguration of the Oberpostdirektion took place in the presence of the general postmaster Heinrich Stephan .

The remarkable portal from the 16th century, which today stands on the extension from 1979, has been preserved from the Eschenhof. The Kaisersaal , originally part of the chief postal director's apartment , is particularly richly decorated . On the walls are the busts of Kaiser Wilhelm I and Crown Prince Friedrich as well as Empress Augusta and Crown Princess Victoria . The five wall paintings in the style of the historicism are early works by Arthur Fitger . The hall was restored in 1970 by Georg Skrypzak. Amenities of the room include an originally non-existent here Murano - chandeliers , otherwise the original device is not obtained.

The building was rebuilt from 1972 to 1977 according to plans by Ernst Hake. In 1979, the building was expanded with a new building in the eastern area, with the 16th century portal of the previous building being added.

In 2000 another five-month renovation took place in order to concentrate the post office here, whereby the use of the post office at the train station was to be further reduced.

Monument protection

Eschenhof portal on Dechanatstrasse

The building of the former Imperial Post Office Directorate and the portal from Eschenhof (probably 1565–69) inserted into the new building have been under the protection of Bremen monuments since 1973 .

use

The Bremen branch of Norag had its first seat in or on the post office at Domsheide 15. Until the end of the privatization of the German Federal Post Office , the building was the seat of the main post office 1 in Bremen. The post office on the mezzanine floor is still one of the busiest in Bremen. The German Post AG and Postbank offer you comprehensive services for customers.

The building also served as a location for exhibitions. B. 1991 there “Treasures from the Trumpet Museum Bad Säckingen ” shown. In 2004 it was decided to sell to the Catholic community association, which wanted to use part of the old building as a school location.

Directors and presidents of the Bremen Post Office

The Reichspostdirektion and Oberpostdirektion Bremen headed directors until 1920 and then presidents.

  1. Belge (1821–1994), 1874 to 1876
  2. Rudolf Schmidt (1829–1915), 1876 to 1885
  3. Emil Borgmann (1839–1923), 1885 to 1906
  4. Paul von Schlichting (1855–1945), 1906 to 1912
  5. Paul Richter (1861–1937), 1912–1919
  6. Josef Jung (1857–1936), 1919–1923
  7. Paul Klauke (1868–1946), 1923–1924
  8. Ernst Berg (1868–1945), 1924–1933
  9. Dr. Karl Schneider (1887–1969), 1933–1937
  10. Friedrich Hubrig (1881– ??), 1937 to 1938
  11. Johannes Schröder (1878–1948), 1938 to 1945
  12. Dr. Karl Schneider (1887–1969), 1945 to 1949, 1951 to 1953 State Secretary in the Federal Ministry for Post and Telecommunications
  13. Dr. Franz Weber (1894–1955), 1949 to 1951, 1954 to 1955 State Secretary in the Ministry of Post
  14. Dr. Kurt Wiesemeyer (1906–19 ??), 1952 to 1961
  15. Dr. Alexis Wegener (1907–1981), 1961 to 1972
  16. Joachim Ueckert, 1972 to 1978, then Head of Post Office Karlsruhe

literature

  • Klaus Rademacher and Jörg Reimar Jäkel: Bremen Post Office 1st commemorative publication for the inauguration of the rebuilt and expanded main post office on Domsheide , 1977.
  • Carl Schwatlo : Imperial General Post Office in Berlin . In: Zeitschrift für Bauwesen No. 25, 1875.
  • Rudolf Stein : Classicism and Romanticism in the Art of Architecture in Bremen I , pp. 175–181: The main post office building and the Eschenhof . 1964.
  • Werner Guddat: One hundred years of the Bremen Post Office . Ed .: Oberpostdirektion Bremen, Bremen 1974.
  • Oberpostdirektion Bremen in a house , Ed .: Oberpostdirektion Bremen, Bremen 1985.
  • Rust (senior post office man a. D.): The postal history of the district of the Reichspostdirektion Bremen for the war years 1939-1945 . Ed .: Oberpostdirektion Bremen, Bremen 1949.
  • Postal history sheets or booklets Weser-Ems (magazine) for 1955 to 1959, 1960 to 1971 and for 1972 to 1994

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ William Küsgen, Paul Gerbeth, Heinrich Herzog, Laurenz Schneider, Gerhard Raabe (ed. Reprinting): Hand dictionary of the postal service , Berlin / Frankfurt (O.) 1926, reprinted Springer-Verlag - Business & Economics, Nov. 21, 2013, Letter O, p. 387 (Google Book Search March 5, 2015)
  2. ↑ Hans Hermann Meyer: The Bremen old town: Walks into the past . (Ed. Jörn Christiansen). Ed. Temmen, Bremen 2003, ISBN 3-86108-686-7 , p. 8
  3. ↑ Weser-Kurier of December 6, 2010, p. 9
  4. ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original dated December 23, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / rosige-zeiten.blogspot.com
  5. ↑ Timo Nobis: Post opens on Domsheide - and closes at the train station. In: welt.de . November 1, 2000, accessed October 7, 2018 .
  6. ^ Monument database of the LfD
  7. ↑ http://www.radiobremen.de/unternehmen/chronik/norag102.html
  8. ↑ http://standorte.deutschepost.de/Standortsuche → Search: Bremen Domshof
  9. ↑ http://www.tarr-online.de/publikationen_ed_de.htm
  10. ↑ http://www.senatspressestelle.bremen.de/detail.php?id=15124
  11. ^ S. Orth, Heinz Deppe lists of the higher officials of the Deutsche Bundespost
  12. ^ Postgeschichtliche Hefte Weser-Ems , Volume IV - Issue 3 from 1973, p. 55.
  13. ^ Postgeschichtliche Hefte Weser-Ems , Volume II - Issue 6, pp. 117–120.

Coordinates: 53 ° 4 ′ 27.4 "  N , 8 ° 48 ′ 34.4"  E