Imperial Post Office (Bad Liebenwerda)

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Former Post Office Bad Liebenwerda

The former imperial post office in the spa town of Bad Liebenwerda is a historic post office in the Elbe-Elster district in southern Brandenburg . It is located here at Schlossstrasse 10 in the city center in the immediate vicinity of the city health clinic. The building is now a listed building .

Building description and history

Schlossstrasse Bad Liebenwerda with the Lubwart Tower in the background

At the beginning of the 19th century there was only one so-called messenger post in Liebenwerda, which the city post had to bring to the nearest post office in Koßdorf. Koßdorf had been a traditional post office since the 16th century , where the Grossenhain - Annaburg post line ran. When the Leipzig – Breßlau post line was set up at the end of the 17th century , it also ran through the town. Despite all its efforts, the city of Liebenwerda only got its own post office with the construction of the Berlin - Dresden road . This road was built between 1815 and 1827 and there was a express mail service that also stopped in Liebenwerda.

The Imperial Post Office of the city of Liebenwerda in Schlossstrasse was finally built in 1893 and 1894 on the site of the former Redslobschen Liberut , which until its incorporation in 1874 belonged to the Liebenwerda suburb of Freiwinkel . Previously, it was located about 100 meters away in a building on Dresdner Strasse. This is a two-story brick building with a hipped roof . On the south side as well as on the east side there are central projections crowned by ornamental gables , which have ornaments made of sandstone. In terms of architectural style, the building is assigned to the neo-renaissance . At that time, the building contractor Carl Weiland (1850–1923) from Liebenwerda, who was the royal commissioner, was responsible for building it according to his own plans. The building, which cost 60,000 marks to build, was opened on August 1st of the same year.

Weiland then left the building to the post office for an annual rent of 3,300 marks. A few years later, the entrepreneur applied a similar business model to the establishment of the Imperial Post Office in the neighboring town of Elsterwerda , which he also had built himself in 1904 and then leased.

The Bad Liebenwerda post office was closed in the 1990s and a post office has been located near the market ever since. After the property was last used by the Deutsche Bundespost as a parking lot or location for their vehicles, it is currently for sale or rental.

  • Historical views

  • The Imperial Post Office in front of the new building on Dresdner Strasse.

  • The Imperial Post Office on a lithograph from around 1895.

  • The Schlossstrasse with the Imperial Post Office around 1900 on a postcard from the Liebenwerda print shop Ziehlke.

  • Schlossstrasse with the Imperial Post Office on a postcard from the Meißner Verlag Brück & Sohn around 1912.

literature

  • Wolfgang Eckelmann, Michael Ziehlke: Chronicle of the city of Liebenwerda. Edited by Association for City Marketing and Economy Bad Liebenwerda eV Winklerdruck GmbH Gräfenhainichen, Bad Liebenwerda 2007, p. 126 .

Web links

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

Notes and individual references

  1. ↑ a b Database of the Brandenburg State Office for the Preservation of Monuments and the State Archaeological Museum ( Memento of the original from December 9, 2017 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. , accessed September 13, 2017.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / bldam-brandenburg.de
  2. ^ A b c Wolfgang Eckelmann, Michael Ziehlke: Chronicle of the city of Liebenwerda. Edited by Association for City Marketing and Economy Bad Liebenwerda eV Winklerdruck GmbH Gräfenhainichen, Bad Liebenwerda 2007, p. 66 .
  3. ^ Friedrich Stoy : Postal matters for Liebenwerda around 1800 . In: The Black Magpie . No.  378 , 1929 (local history supplement to the Liebenwerdaer Kreisblatt ).
  4. ↑ M. Karl Fitzkow : The homeowner registers of the old town of Liebenwerda from 1551 to 1754 . In: The Black Magpie . No.  489 , 1935 (local history supplement to the Liebenwerdaer Kreisblatt ).
  5. ↑ a b Wolfgang Eckelmann, Michael Ziehlke: Chronicle of the City of Liebenwerda. Edited by Association for City Marketing and Economy Bad Liebenwerda eV Winklerdruck GmbH Gräfenhainichen, Bad Liebenwerda 2007, p. 112 .
  6. ^ The post office on the homepage of the city of Bad Liebenwerda , accessed on November 13, 2017
  7. ↑ Flyer: Imperial Post Office. A house with tradition. ( online as a PDF file )
  8. ↑ Frank Hilbert: “When packages make music” in Lausitzer Rundschau , December 22, 2007
  9. ↑ As of 2017

Coordinates: 51 ° 30 ′ 59.3 "  N , 13 ° 23 ′ 46.5"  E