Oberpostdirektion Minden

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The first building of the Oberpostdirektion Minden

The Oberpostdirektion Minden (OPD Minden) was on January 1, 1850 in Minden / Westf. established as a central authority of the postal administration in the administrative district of Minden . Your subordinate to the post offices , telephone exchanges , telecommunication stuff offices , the post office giro and postal savings bank offices .

In 1934 the Oberpostdirektion Minden was dissolved and integrated into the Oberpostdirektion Münster , which in turn existed until the dissolution of the Deutsche Bundespost in 1989.

history

By a cabinet order of September 19, 1849, an Oberpostdirektion was set up in each of the 26 administrative districts of Prussia . The former Imperial Post Office Minden, established on January 1, 1850, was initially responsible for the administrative district of Minden, the Principality of Waldeck and Pyrmont and from 1867 also for the Principality of Lippe and Schaumburg-Lippe . Since it served as a border post office to Hanover, a new building of its own was built at the station. With the annexation of the Kingdom of Hanover in 1866, the border task became obsolete and the Oberpostdirektion Minden was dissolved on June 1, 1869. The areas of the administrative district of Minden, Schaumburg-Lippe and Lippe went to the Oberpostdirektion Münster, the areas Waldeck and Pyrmont to the Oberpostdirektion Kassel .

Restructuring of the post made a re-establishment possible: On January 1, 1876, the Oberpostdirektion Minden was re-established. It existed until March 31, 1934, when the Minden Oberpostdirektion was reintegrated into the Münster Oberpostdirektion as part of the administrative simplification.

Kraftmail lines

The Oberpostdirektion Minden was also responsible for the establishment and operation of so-called Kraftpostlinien . From 1921 a line ran from Kalletal to Vlotho and from 1923 a line from Lübbecke to Lemförde .

building

With the establishment of the Oberpostdirektion in Minden in 1850, a first service building was also built. In 1847 the Cöln Mindener Eisenbahn opened up the area on the right bank of the Weser from Minden, where the building of the Minden Oberpostdirektion was built near the train station on today's Friedrich-Wilhelm-Straße / corner of Kaiserstraße. Construction began on February 3, 1855 and finished in 1858. Here, the rail mail to the temporarily hostile Hanover should be subjected to a border control and the mobility of the railroad should be used for own transport. The stately three-storey square building has a representative facade made of porta sandstone and thus adapts to the external features of the Minden train station .

In 1905 there was no longer enough space at this location and the construction of a new building on today's Heidestrasse in the northern city center on the left bank of the Weser began. The new property was made available to the post office free of charge after the state, as the operator of the Oberpostdirektion, threatened to move it to another location. This building was used until the authorities were dissolved in 1934 and today houses the Minden tax office. The Minden station post office continued to operate in the old building. Both buildings are entered in the list of monuments of the city of Minden .

Today's situation at the train station

The first building of the Oberpostdirektion Minden at the train station stood empty for some time. In January 2009, the city of Minden decided to redevelop the area and also use it as a hotel. The plans were not implemented. At the beginning of February 2010, the Minden educational institution, Fachwerk , previously located in the former railway warehouse on Schwarzen Weg, bought the building to set up offices and workshops. In the meantime, classrooms have been set up there for various courses in vocational preparation, activation aids and production schools.

literature

  • Heinz Neumann: The Oberpostdirektion Minden (Westf.) 1850–1869 and 1876–1934. In: Archive for German Postal History . Issue 1, 1966, ISSN  0003-8989 , pp. 17-28.
  • Heinz Neumann: The heads of the Oberpostdirektion Minden 1850–1869 and 1876–1934. In: Mindener Tageblatt . 1980 (in continuations).
  • Heinrich Walters: Post and telecommunications in northern Westphalia. The Oberpostdirektion Münster and the former Oberpostdirektion Minden. Society for German Postal History, Münster District Group, Münster 1990.

Web links

Commons : Oberpostdirektion Minden  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Archives of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia, accessed in March 2009
  2. ^ Postal history accessed in March 2009
  3. ↑ Wikipedia Busverkehr Ostwestfalen , accessed in March 2009
  4. ↑ a b Mindener Tageblatt of February 4, 2010
  5. ↑ Website of the Minden stamp collecting association, accessed in March 2009
  6. ↑ Stadtumbau Minden, concept (PDF; 1.2 MB), accessed in December 2010

Coordinates: 52 ° 17 '21.8 "  N , 8 ° 55' 58.4"  E