Imperial Post Office Bad Homburg
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The Imperial Post Office Bad Homburg is a listed building in the Louisenstrasse 65 in Bad Homburg vor der Höhe , inaugurated in 1893 , which was used as a post office until 1972 .
After the previously rented post office building at Louisenstrasse 70 had become too small (from 1876 to 1889, for example, the number of parcels had increased by 86%), General Post Director Heinrich von Stephan visited the spa town in 1886 to inspect various buildings that were used as the new post office in Question came. The favorite was the town hall, which was moved into in 1884, the former "Hessischer Hof" hotel. After these plans were dashed, the Imperial Post acquired the "Europäische Hof", a hotel at Louisenstrasse 65, in 1890 for 130,000 marks . The "European courtyard" was demolished and the post office was built from 1891 to 1893.
The construction was carried out according to a design by the government master builder Max Ludewig directly opposite the second Kurhaus . The representative building in a mixture of Renaissance and Baroque is based on classic palace facades and reflects the taste of the Wilhelmine era. The air raids on Thursday March 8, 1945 resulted in the loss of the hip roof and the frontispiece .
In 1972 the post office moved into its new building at the train station . Today the old house is used by the retail chain Butlers .
literature
- Heinz Grosche: History of the city of Bad Homburg in front of the height . Edited by the Magistrate of the City of Bad Homburg vor der Höhe; Part 3. The Imperial Era, 1986, ISBN 3-7829-0334-X
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Heinz Grosche: History of the city of Bad Homburg in front of the height , part 4, pages 363-364
- ↑ State Office for Monument Preservation Hesse (ed.): Formerly Imperial Post In: DenkXweb, online edition of cultural monuments in Hesse
Coordinates: 50 ° 13 ′ 35.8 ″ N , 8 ° 37 ′ 0.3 ″ E