Imperial Post Office Elsterwerda

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Former Imperial Post Office
Carl Weiland memorial stone at the level crossing between Prieschka and the Zeischa forest pool .

The listed building of the former imperial post office in the small town of Elsterwerda in southern Brandenburg is located on the corner of Elsterstrasse and Poststrasse opposite the municipal building of the “Sparkasse Elbe-Elster”.

history

In the city of Elsterwerda there was already a border post office in 1685. For a long time the building of today's town hall in the main street was used as a post office. The horses for the stagecoaches were unhitched and unhitched at the neighboring diamond ring . In 1879 the post office building was acquired by the city of Elsterwerda for 26,400 marks from the post office keeper Mittag in order to use it as a town hall and district court in the following years . Ultimately, the first post office in the city of Elsterwerda was established, which was located in the current building of the leather and toy shop at Markt 3 from 1879 to 1885 . Then there was an imperial post office in the building that was demolished in 1994 on the property at Langen Strasse 8 opposite the former Galle department store . A new residential and commercial building has been located here since the 1990s.

At the turn of the century it became necessary to build a new post office due to the steadily increasing population growth in Elsterwerda. For comparison: in the years from 1875 to 1910 alone, the number of inhabitants in Elsterwerda rose from 1793 to 4,224, which means that the city's population more than doubled. The Liebenwerda Royal Commissioner and building contractor Carl Weiland therefore had a post office built by the Elsterwerda master mason Friedrich Jage according to his own plans in 1904, which was rented on April 1, 1905. The annual rent was 3,252  marks . The postal inspector Rehse from Lyck was the first postal director in the new building. In 1925 the Oberpostdirektion bought the building for 53,000  Reichsmarks . Two years later, a renovation and extension took place. The remote office was put into operation on March 3, 1928.

Ten years after the fall of the Wall , the post office in Elsterwerda was closed in 1999 and a post office was set up in Packhofstrasse. It was then used for some time by a local educational institution for training and further education. After the building had been empty for several years, it is currently undergoing extensive expansion.

Web links

Commons : Kaiserliches Postamt Elsterwerda  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ List of monuments of the state of Brandenburg: Elbe-Elster district (PDF) Brandenburg State Office for Monument Preservation and State Archaeological Museum
  2. ↑ Historical municipality register of the state of Brandenburg 1875 to 2005. Elbe-Elster district . Pp. 14-17
  3. ↑ 2016
  4. ↑ Flyer: Imperial Post Office. A house with tradition. ( online as a PDF file )
  5. ↑ Eberhard Matthes, Werner Galle: Elsterwerda in old views . European Library, Zaltbommel 1992, ISBN 90-288-5344-8 , pp. 43 .

Coordinates: 51 ° 27 ′ 31.1 ″  N , 13 ° 31 ′ 11.1 ″  E