Imperial Post (Flensburg-Mürwik)

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The "Imperial Post" in Flensburg - Mürwik
Relief of the imperial eagle with the year of construction

The Imperial Post in Flensburg - Mürwik dates back to 1910 and is located on the edge of the old Mürwik center , near the Flensburg-Mürwik base with the Mürwik naval school . It is not to be confused with the “ Alte Post ” in the city ​​center . The building of the “Imperial Post” in Mürwik is one of Mürwik's cultural monuments today .

history

In 1910, the year the villages Engelsby, Fruerlund and Twedt were incorporated into Flensburg, the brick building was built as a residential and postal service building for the Imperial Post Office . The building was created according to plans by the Flensburg architects Magnus Schlichting (1850-1919) and Max Schlichting in a style mix of neo-baroque and heritage architecture . The post office was set up on the ground floor , while the upper floors were used for residential purposes. At that time there was a front garden in front of the building. The post office also served as a stagecoach - relay station , replacing in this respect, the Brickyard Mürwik . There was a stable or shed for the horses. To commemorate the Mürwiker brickworks mentioned , a relief was placed above each of the two house entrances, one of the " Osbeck brickworks" and one of the "Osbeck-Hof".

The building is said to have been built by Peter Iwersen, who himself was a post office worker and who ran the post office as postal inspector from 1910 until his retirement in 1954. The money for the construction of the house is said to have come from the sale of the Osbeck brickworks on which Peter Iwersen grew up. The city of Flensburg bought the brickworks and also the adjacent Osbeck-Hof, which also belonged to a branch of the Iwersen family, in order to donate the land to the German Reich as agreed so that the naval school could be built on this site . Peter Iwersen was a well-known personality in Mürwik as a " postmaster ", among other things he was a church elder and arbitrator. He was married to Marie, b. Poerksen, from Hoyer . The family had three sons who died early, the last of which fell on August 31, 1941 in Russia near Cholm . The only daughter Anna married the naval doctor Karl Baecker.

Kaiser-Wilhelm-Strasse, on which the post office was located, was renamed Mürwiker Strasse after the Second World War , at the request of the Control Council . The house numbers did not change. A few years after the war, Karl Baecker ran his practice in the post office. In 1969 the front garden was removed when Mürwiker Straße was widened. Anna Baecker died in 1994 in the post office, which was then sold by her five children.

The ground floor, in which the post office was located, is now used as a doctor's practice, the shed for the horses has been converted into a bicycle shed. Otherwise the building now serves as a residential building. As a replacement, a new Mürwiker post office was built on the Osteralle 10 property after the Second World War , but this was closed in the early 2000s. The district's central post office is now on Twedter Plack . There is also a post office at the Schottweg Center in Wasserloos .

Web links

Commons : Imperial Post  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ See historical picture postcard in which the post office in the city center is called "Imperial Post". Retrieved March 31, 2015
  2. ↑ 100 years ago: Four villages for the city. In: Flensburger Tageblatt of April 1, 2010; accessed on: March 31, 2015
  3. ↑ a b c Lutz Wilde : Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany, cultural monuments in Schleswig-Holstein. Volume 2, Flensburg, page 542
  4. ↑ a b c private homepage of Kerstin Rundfeldt and Dr. med. Hans Rundfeldt , accessed April 4, 2015
  5. ↑ a b c private notes by Thomas Baecker "Rückblick"; inserted on: July 11, 2017
  6. ↑ View of the annual rings of the growing city. In: Flensburger Tageblatt of August 11, 2012; accessed on March 31, 2015
  7. ↑ 100 years of incorporation. The gray donkey and the emperor's slope. In: Flensburger Tageblatt of May 6, 2010; accessed on March 31, 2015
  8. ↑ private homepage of Kerstin Rundfeldt and Dr. med. Hans Rundfeldt , accessed December 1, 2014
  9. ↑ See Flensburg Mobil, Osterallee / Post bus stop (direction: Solitüde) and Osterallee Post playground and playground, ball court, Alte Post, Osterallee 10 , each accessed on April 4, 2015
  10. ^ Das Örtliche, Postfiliale (Famila) , accessed on April 4, 2015

Coordinates: 54 ° 48 ′ 29.2 ″  N , 9 ° 27 ′ 36.5 ″  E