Post Gallery Speyer
The Postgalerie Speyer is a shopping center in Speyer , which was built in 2012 in the listed former building of the Oberpostdirektion from 1901, expanded in 1925. The building was used by the Deutsche Post until 2002 and also housed a telecommunications school. The main focus of today's shopping center is on clothing and shoes.
The main facade of the building, which almost completely takes up an entire street block, is located at Postplatz 1, which is located directly in front of the historic capital gate of the city, the old gate that closes Speyerer Hauptstrasse, Maximilianstrasse , in the west as well as Speyer Cathedral in the east.
According to the list of monuments, the building is a castle-like three-storey, neo-baroque mansard roof with a sandstone cuboid facade. The equipment comes from the stonemason company Grimm.
The construction of the Oberpostdirektion and its historical background
From 1816 (according to the State Treaty between Bavaria and Austria ) until de facto 1940, de jure 1943, the Palatinate was the eighth Bavarian district in Bavaria. Speyer was chosen as the capital and seat of the regional president of the Rhine district , which was later called the Pfalz district. The Bavarian government lavishly furnished its new capital, the Palatinate, with representative buildings that still shape the face of the city today. B. almost all buildings on Domplatz.
The Oberpostdirektion, which was built between 1900 and 1901, was one of the most important buildings within this construction program for the newly acquired territory of the Palatinate for Bavaria, costing almost 1 million gold marks .
Construction and design
Architects and style
During this time, the Bavarian Building Authority did not build its buildings with independent architects, but with their own building officials. According to the files, the planner of the building was the planning officer at the Landbauamt Anton Geyer. Construction manager Otto Baer was in charge of construction. The building authority and its architects strove to use architectural elements from building history in their buildings, a style that was predominant as historicism at the time, but was strongly rejected after 1918.
Role models and references
The Speyer art historian Clemens Jöckle found models for the facade of the Oberpostdirektion in Würzburg . From the residence there, a work by Balthasar Neumann , whose forms are based on Lukas von Hildebrandt and Maximilian von Welsch , the semicircular, once offset gable above the central projection, the rich window crowns and the protruding horizontal window elements are taken over. In Würzburg, these form details would be used to design the residence facade to form the courtyard of honor . Only the mezzanine floor had been dropped in Speyer.
Rudolf Ritter von Horstig d'Aubigny would also have borrowed from this residence from 1892 to 1896 when the building of the New University of Würzburg was built. The post office in Speyer shows a certain relationship with the simplified form details of this building. As in Würzburg the gable of the New University is crowned with a Prometheus figure , so in Speyer an atlas with a globe was placed above the gable . The atlas with globe was used by Balthasar Permoser for the Wallpavillon in Dresden , which was widely followed in the 19th century .
Geyer was also inspired by the Silesian Baroque. The curved balcony is a repetition of the balcony of the University of Wroclaw, which was probably designed by Christian Hackner. In contrast to the original, the Speyer balcony rests on consoles , while the original relies on columns in front of the facade.
The facade facing Bahnhofstrasse is accentuated by idiosyncratic risalits, the attachments of which protrude over the hipped roof. A vase like the one sitting in Speyer on the apex of the segmental arch is unfamiliar to Baroque architecture. But they would appear at Linderhof Palace , which Georg Dollmann had built for King Ludwig II from 1874 to 1878 .
Jöckle describes the stately expansion of the post office as a kind of neo-baroque replacement for a baroque palace that Speyer escaped. The richness of the decor on the facades continues inside. Mighty pillars supported a glass roof in the counter hall. This trick of a covered atrium created four wings that made up a small residence, even if only for the post office.
The use of baroque facade elements in Bavaria by Friedrich von Thiersch , for example in the older part of the Palace of Justice in Munich, was also used in high quality in the Palatinate, for example in the justice building in Landau in the Palatinate and at the district office and rent office in Ludwigshafen .
Missing attribution of the building to Franz Schöberl
Contrary to the files, in 1903 FJ Hildenbrand included the upper post office building in a short catalog raisonné by Franz Schöberl in a note in the “Palatinate Museum” , which the Speyerer Zeitung repeated in an obituary for Schöberl on July 23, 1908 . Since then, this mistake has been repeated again and again.
Expansion in 1925
In 1924, the Reichspost set up its own building construction departments at their Oberpostdirektion, which endeavored to provide modern construction that was adapted to the respective landscape.
In 1925, Heinrich Müller was appointed head of the building construction department of the Post Office Directorate to Speyer, where he was entrusted with the task of significantly expanding the Post Office Directorate building. He also implemented his goal of locally adapted building in Speyer. In the Kleine Pfaffengasse, he found the former royal house, an elongated three-storey facade in very simple shapes that clings to the curve of the street.
He now planned this street on the west side of Gutenbergstrasse. The art historian Clemens Jöckle praises the scale of the extensive structure on the newly created street. The fact that the large extension is not perceived as a foreign body is thanks to the careful conception of combining objectivity with the association of an already familiar street scene.
The architect used light-colored plaster as the material and gray shell limestone for the window and door frames . Since 1913, when Alfred Messel used gray shell limestone for the Wertheim Brothers department store in Berlin , the stone material was often used for representative urban buildings and is also typical for authorities of the time.
Prehistory of the post in Speyer
In 1490, the German King Maximilian I set up the first regularly operated postal route in Europe between Innsbruck and Brussels , which crossed the Rhine by means of the Rheinhausen ferry near Speyer . He hired the Italian courier family Taxis to carry out this postal service . Verifiably, there was a post office in Rheinhausen since 1495 , which until 1499 was under the authority of the ferryman and postman Bentz Glesser.
Conversion to a shopping center
GWB Immobilien AG wanted to convert the building into a shopping center after it had been vacant for years. This original developer company, which filed for bankruptcy on July 3, 2012 and went into bankruptcy on October 1, 2012, called the target market value of the building after expansion at 54.5 million euros, the target net rent at 3.5 million euros per Year. It was aiming for a rental area of 15,472 m 2 with a gross floor area of around 28,000 m 2 .
The architectural office BFK Architekten in Stuttgart-Möhringen commissioned by GWB stated a gross floor area of 28,103 m² (old and new buildings), a gross volume of 111,501 m³ (old and new buildings) with space for up to 40 shops, cafés, Bistro, restaurants, service areas and ancillary areas with a total of 23,000 m² in the old and new buildings. The construction cost was stated to be 20 million euros.
On March 22, 2011, GWB Immobilien AG named an investment volume of EUR 44.3 million for the project and equity, a joint venture contract with Caposition S.à rl and a loan from HSH-Nordbank AG as the basis for the start of the project.
From April 2012 onwards, Captiva Capital Management took over the expansion of the building for the investor Caposition. Real estate investors Composition Capital Partners and Captiva Capital Management are behind the Luxembourg company. A total of 23,000 m 2 of usable space was created, including around 3,200 m 2 of office and service space in addition to retail space . Caposition stated the investment amount to be 50 million euros.
Schürmann Spannel AG , Bochum , was hired as architects and specialist engineers . Kempen Krause engineers, Cologne, were commissioned with the statics. The building was physically constructed by the Postgalerie nesseler grünzig bau gmbh / Bürkle GmbH consortium . The project manager was Norbert Klein, who coordinated the complex construction activities with the site managers Daniel Simons, Oliver Kurz, the tenant coordinator Ulrich Huzel and the foremen Johann Gier and Volker Offtermatt. The building was gutted. The foundation of the new building was done with bored piles , which tie into the ground up to 23 meters. In the basement of the existing components that have been preserved, with their sometimes very low and narrow spaces, around 350 micropiles were installed using a special method for foundation purposes. The old building ensemble was supplemented by a new building in the former inner courtyard of the post office. This connects the individual levels of the existing components to form continuous business areas and offers space for a mall as an access axis and promenade. By the topping-out ceremony on June 5, 2012, around 1,100 tons of reinforcing steel, more than 7,000 m³ of concrete and 120 tons of structural steel had been used.
At the start of the project, 40 shops were rented out and formed into an advertising association. The Postgalerie was opened on November 28, 2012.
literature
- Clemens Jöckle : District capital Speyer. Buildings from the Bavarian past , publisher: Historischer Verein, Bezirksgruppe Speyer, Pilger-Druckerei, Speyer 1984, ISSN 0175-6583; Chapter: 42. The building of the Oberpostdirektion, pp. 83–85 and 95. Extension of the post office, pp. 171–173
Individual evidence
- ↑ Informational directory of cultural monuments, district-free city of Speyer, p. 15 (PDF; 1.10 MB)
- ^ Clemens Jöckle : district capital Speyer. Buildings from the Bavarian past , publisher: Historischer Verein, Speyer district group, Pilger-Druckerei GmbH, Speyer 1984, ISSN 0175-6583; Chapter: 95. Extension of the Post Office , pp. 171–173
- ^ Fritz Ohmann: The beginnings of the postal system and the taxis , Leipzig 1909, page 318 and 324.
- ↑ immobilien-zeitung.de , accessed on December 3, 2012
- ↑ http://www.finanznachrichten.de/nachrichten-2012-10/24742718-dgap-adhoc-gwb-immobilien-ag-eroeffnung-insolvenzverfahren-016.htm , accessed on December 3, 2012
- ↑ gwb-immobilien ( memento of November 30, 2012 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on December 3, 2012
- ↑ bfk-architekten.de ( Memento from July 5, 2012 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on December 3, 2012
- ↑ GWB Immobilien AG gives the go-ahead for the construction of the Postgalerie Speyer , dgap.de, accessed on December 3, 2012
- ↑ immobilien-zeitung.de , accessed on December 3, 2012
- ↑ spa: Postgalerie Speyer: "Esprix" new tenant ... in perspective from September 28, 2012 , accessed on December 3, 2012
- ↑ http://koprianiq.de/referenz-centermanagement/articles/speyer-postgalerie.html ; Retrieved December 3, 2012
- ↑ immobilien-zeitung.de , accessed on December 3, 2012
- ↑ Shopping center attracts many visitors ( Memento from September 28, 2013 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on December 3, 2012
- ↑ Newsletter 48 , issuu.com, pp. 24, 25 (PDF), accessed on December 3, 2012
- ↑ Topping- out ceremony Postgalerie Speyer ( Memento from February 11, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ), accessed on December 4, 2012
- ↑ morgenweb.de , accessed on December 3, 2012
Web links
- List of listed buildings of the postal and telecommunications system
- Shopping center website
- Video: Impressions from the time of the vacant building before the renovation with pictures of attractive building elements and of the decay; on Youtube
The investors
Coordinates: 49 ° 19 ′ 3.9 " N , 8 ° 25 ′ 53.9" E