Upper Post Office Münster
The Oberpostdirektion Münster was a higher administrative unit of the post in Münster in Westphalia . It was established by the Kingdom of Prussia as one of the first Oberpostdirections on January 1st, 1850 . From 1868 it belonged to the postal administration of the North German Confederation and from 1871 to the Reichspost . From 1950 it continued to perform its duties until the dissolution of the Deutsche Bundespost on January 1, 1995.
Buildings on Domplatz
1878–1880 a large new building for the post office, the telegraph office and the head post office was built on the property of the former canon curia, Domplatz 6/7 - including office apartments for the three office managers. In view of the special structural character of the city of Münster and the location of the property on Domplatz opposite St. Paulus Cathedral , the facades of the new building should be designed in the neo-Gothic style with a combination of exposed brickwork and sandstone. The conceptual preliminary draft prepared in the office of the Reichspost building administration under the direction of August Kind was handed over to the freelance, renowned architect Julius Raschdorff for further artistic development , while the construction was again under the direction and supervision of the Reichspost building administration. The foundation stone was laid in 1878, and the opening of the new post office took place on October 1, 1880, in the presence of department director Paul David Fischer . The budgeted budget of 670,000 marks was not exceeded. The Oberpostdirektion moved out of the building in 1925 and its rooms were added to the post and telecommunications service. During the Second World War , the building was destroyed in air raids on Münster ; a contemporary new building for the main post office was built on the property in the 1950s.
Building on the Hohenzollernring
Due to a lack of space, the Oberpostdirektion moved in 1925 to a larger new building, again built by the Reichspost Building Administration, on the property at Hohenzollernring 56 / Manfred-von-Richthofen-Straße in the Mauritzviertel . The architecture of this building is rather conservative for the period of construction, in particular the central projection of the facade on the Hohenzollernring shows the typical features of neoclassicism . In order to get more office space, the roof was rebuilt in 1967. The building still exists today.
Web links
- Event announcement from the municipal press and information office of Münster from autumn 2010 with a picture of the post office from 1880 on Domplatz (also in better resolution as a download), accessed on September 6, 2017
literature
- The new Reich Post and Telegraph Building in Münster. In: Deutsche Bauzeitung , Volume 15, 1881, No. 4 (from January 12, 1881), p. 21 f.
- Isolde Maria Weineck (Red.): Ostviertel and Hansaviertel. (= Walks to architectural monuments , No. 8.) Münster 1991, p. 3 f.
- Sylvaine Hänsel, Stefan Rethfeld: Münster architecture guide. Reimer, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-496-01276-4 , p. 183.
Coordinates: 51 ° 57 ′ 34 " N , 7 ° 38 ′ 52" E