Oberpostdirektion Augsburg
The Oberpostdirektion in Augsburg was established in 1905 in place of the old Royal Bavarian Oberpostamt on the Grottenau after it had become too small. The new building initially housed the technical equipment for telegraphy and telephony , and later also transmission systems for the low-frequency wire radio network . After the postal reform , the building was taken over by the successor company Deutsche Telekom AG and mainly used as an office building.
Old building (1756–1905)
On September 21, 1850, the first Augsburg telegraph station in the Markgrafenturm at Fronhof on Peutingerstrasse was put into operation. This was then subordinated to the Royal Bavarian Upper Post Office in Augsburg in 1880 and relocated to a rear building of the old Upper Post Office in Grottenau on May 3rd and 4th, 1885. The old post office building existed since 1756 as the post office of the Kaiserlich Taxi'schen Post and was handed over to the Royal Bavarian Post in 1808. On October 19, 1885, the General Directorate of the Royal Bavarian Transport Authority responsible for rail and mail ordered the construction of the first state telephone system, which was also put into operation on July 3, 1886 in the old upper post office building with 111 subscribers connected.
New building
Construction work
After the old building became too small, it was demolished and the new building was erected in the same place from 1905 to 1908. A four-storey building complex in the neo-baroque style was built according to the plans of the state building officer Wicklein . On a base from Nagelfluh , only the lower two floors were clad with natural stone, the upper floors were plastered. The main building is structured by pilasters , the entrance portal is emphasized by a balcony above it. Inside the building there was a glass-roofed counter hall and an arcade gallery. In the arcades, a painting by the fresco painter August Brandes showed the first Augsburg post house on Pfannenstiel (1513–1632) and the demolished previous building. Today the painting has been painted over and is no longer visible.
Use and alterations
During the construction period, on April 1, 1907, the postal service was reorganized and renamed “ Oberpostdirektion Augsburg”. At the same time, the first female workers were employed in the telegraph service. For the rapidly growing telephone traffic in Augsburg , the first automatic dialing system was put into operation in 1924, in addition to the existing manual exchange . As early as 1925, the building on the Grottenau was too small and the construction of another building on Langenmantelstraße, which was completed in 1928, began. The remote office was outsourced there, the hand-held switchover point remained in the building on the Grottenau. As development progressed, new technical equipment for various telecommunications services was continuously installed in the building. From 1927 the first low-frequency wire radio network in Bavaria was operated from there until 1945. In 1930 there were already 6 switching centers in Augsburg, but the central Augsburg center in Grottenau was not automated until the beginning of 1935 and 5,000 connection units with rotary dial technology were put into operation on the third floor .
In 1939 a reorganization was carried out and initially a telephone exchange was established, which was later renamed the telecommunications office . During the Second World War , the building was damaged by an Allied air raid in early 1944 and an emergency operation was set up in the basement. The gable and the striking hipped roof were destroyed. The damage was only repaired in 1949 and 1950 with the construction of a fifth floor. From 1973 to 1975 the top floor was redesigned, giving the building its current appearance. It was still used by the telecommunications service of the Deutsche Bundespost and was constantly being rebuilt and expanded. The first Telekom store in Augsburg was set up there, but it soon had to move due to lack of space. Most recently, offices of the successor companies Deutsche Telekom and the business customer area T-Systems were located there.
Today the building is largely empty, with a Deutsche Post AG branch and a Postbank finance center on the ground floor . The building has belonged to the city of Augsburg since 2011. Part of the Leopold Mozart Center at the University of Augsburg is planned to move into the future . The previous location on Maximilianstrasse will then be given up. Extensive renovation work will take place between 2014 and 2017, including a concert hall with 150 seats on the top floor. The wall that previously existed in the south and east of the building is to be removed, making the existing inner courtyard in the direction of Ernst-Reuter-Platz accessible. In addition, employees of the municipal youth welfare office and traffic monitoring will move into part of the building. The post office that already exists today is to be retained.
Oberpostdirektoren or presidents of the Oberpostdirektion / Reichspostdirektion
- 1912–1930: Anton Arndt
- 1930–1938: Wilhelm Feineis
- 1938-1945: Robert Simm
literature
- Senioren-Monitor Augsburg , February 2009, information for pension recipients of the former Telekom branch Augsburg, pp. 1–2
Web links
- Article about the Oberpostdirektion in the Augsburger Stadtlexikon
- https://verwaltungshandbuch.bayerische-landesbibliothek-online.de/register-v#x11
Individual evidence
- ↑ augsburger-allgemeine.de: The renovation of the Grottenau will begin next year. December 12th 2013
Coordinates: 48 ° 22 ′ 11 " N , 10 ° 53 ′ 40" E