Oberpostdirektion Konstanz
The Oberpostdirektion Konstanz was an intermediate authority of the postal administration, which was created on January 1, 1872 , was responsible for the southern part of Baden and was dissolved in 1934.
history
The Oberpostdirektion (OPD) in Konstanz started its service in a building on Bahnhofsplatz in 1872. These rooms were already too small for the rapidly growing authority in the early 1880s. In February 1884, in Reichspostamt by Heinrich von Stephan the construction of a service building for the OPD decided to come into force and the post office, the telegraph office and the railway post office. Then August Kind , head of the Reichspost building administration, began working out the building plan. On November 28, 1885, the general plan was sent to Constance for examination, and the draft was revised after the space requirements had been submitted. In February 1887 the super-revision took place without objection, and the Reichstag approved the funds for the necessary land purchase as a prerequisite for the new building. In the following year, construction under Karl Buddeberg (1856–1934) and the management of post office building officer Ludwig Arnold (1826–1905) began. The building was opened for business on April 25, 1891.
As a result of efforts to simplify administration, five upper post offices were dissolved in 1934, in addition to Constance also Darmstadt, Minden (Westphalia), Halle (Saale) and Liegnitz. The area of responsibility of the OPD Konstanz was transferred to the Oberpostdirektion Karlsruhe , which thus included all of Baden. At the same time the designation Oberpostdirektion was changed to Reichspostdirektion . After 1945 the French military government set up its own Oberpostdirektion Freiburg im Breisgau in its zone of occupation, which in its final form no longer included Karlsruhe . In 1988 their district consisted of the following allocated area: Freiburg administrative district, the Bodenseekreis, Ravensburg, Sigmaringen and Zollernalbkreis districts (Tübingen district) as well as the Baden-Baden district and the Freudenstadt and Rastatt districts (Karlsruhe district).
The post office building used by the OPD Konstanz until 1934 was rebuilt in 1986–1987 while preserving the historical appearance. In 1997 the building was sold to the newly founded Sparkasse Bodensee as its headquarters in Konstanz next to the one in Friedrichshafen.
President of the OPD Konstanz
- 1872–1895: Eckardt
- 1895– ?: Dehn
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Alt-Konstanz.de - City Chronicle . Retrieved August 13, 2013.
- ^ Dehio-Handbuch der Deutschen Kunstdenkmäler, Baden-Württemberg II. The administrative districts of Freiburg and Tübingen. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 1997, p. 382.