Post office (Ludwigshafen-Oggersheim)
The former post office building in Ludwigshafen 's Oggersheim district is a monument from the beginning of the 20th century.
description
The former post office building, which is listed as a historical monument, was built in 1927 and was designed by the Altenglan architect Heinrich Müller . It is a hipped roof building with a coach house , adorned with a figure of Mercury by the sculptor Theobald Hauck . The foundation walls of the building are made of plastered house stones .
The two-story plastered building, whose proportions are based on the late Baroque , has arched windows and doors on its ground floor. The divisions are made of sandstone . The building survived the Second World War unscathed, so that even after its closure in 2009 it is still almost true to the original, including the associated backyard.
Müller usually designed buildings with higher quality fittings and features. With the post office building in Oggersheim he did without any unusual features, since he could not and did not want to compete with the post office with the neighboring Markuskirche and the Schillerhaus or other large-format houses in the vicinity. For this reason, Müller limited himself to the Hermes figure (or Mercury figure) and blind arcades for this building in order to give the building a certain extraordinary note.
Individual evidence
- ^ General Directorate for Cultural Heritage Rhineland-Palatinate (ed.): Informational directory of cultural monuments - district-free city of Ludwigshafen am Rhein. Mainz 2020, p. 20 (PDF; 4.9 MB).
- ^ Wolfgang Werner: The architect Heinrich Müller and the Bavarian Post Building School in the Palatinate . Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe 2011, ISBN 978-3-86644-790-5 , p. 174 .
Coordinates: 49 ° 29 ′ 28.1 ″ N , 8 ° 22 ′ 27.5 ″ E