Post office (Penzberg)
The former post office in Penzberg , a town in the Upper Bavarian district of Weilheim-Schongau , was built between 1922 and 1923. The building at Philippstrasse 28 is a protected architectural monument and was opened on June 23, 1923.
description
The two-storey hipped roof building with plastered structures was built by Robert Vorhoelzer (1884–1954), then senior building officer in the Bavarian Post Office Building Administration in Munich, created in 1920, and Franz Lochbrunner. The modern architecture of the post office buildings in Bavaria in the 1920s is known as the “ Post Building School ”. It was the first building to be erected in a series of projects entitled “Country Post Office”. The unified counter hall, the existing plastering structures and clear floor plans were characteristic of the former post office . The location on Philippstrasse was deliberately chosen close to the train station. The post office is one of the most beautiful historical buildings in the city.
history
In the early years the Deutsche Reichspost was responsible, later in the post-war years from 1950 the Deutsche Bundespost and finally from 1995 the Deutsche Post DHL Group .
In 1933, the postal agencies Antdorf and Habach were placed under the Penzberg post office. In 1935 the Benediktbeuern post office and the Bichl post office were added.
In 1942 the branch post offices Benediktbeuern and Bichl were separated from the Penzberg post office and assigned to the Kochel post office . The Penzberg post office only included the Antdorf, Habach and Sindelsdorf post offices .
On April 1, 1943, the Penzberg post office was allocated to the Weilheim post office in Upper Bavaria .
In 1966 the post office was modernized and rebuilt.
In 1977 the post office was entered on the list of monuments.
The building was acquired by the investment company Lone Star in April 2008 and later sold on. Today it is privately owned.
In 2010 the post office was converted into a Postbank partner branch . So until the end there were two companies in one house. The Postbank partner branch was closed on March 18, 2020.
The last mailbox distribution took place on June 27, 2020. Shortly afterwards the postmen were moved to an industrial park .
On the left side of the entrance was the counter hall with three counters, including a parcel counter. Services from Deutsche Post , Postbank , DHL and Western Union were offered.
On the right side of the entrance was the post office box system with 179 post boxes including a return box . Around the corner of the post office box was a small window with an electric bell for the handover of mail items requiring special treatment . This was reserved for post office box customers only. The mailboxes were divided into three areas with their own postcodes :
| Post Code | P.O. Box number |
|---|---|
| 82372 | 1101-1165 |
| 82373 | 1201-1265 |
| 82374 | 1301–1365 1 return compartment |
literature
- Georg Paula , Stefanie Berg-Hobohm : District Weilheim-Schongau (= Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation [Hrsg.]: Monuments in Bavaria . Volume I.23 ). Lipp, Munich 2003, ISBN 3-87490-585-3 , pp. 263 .
Web links
- Franziska Seliger: Penzberger "Post Office" closes - a storm of protest sweeps through the town. In: Merkur.de , January 15, 2020.
- Franziska Seliger: Almost 100-year-old era is coming to an end in Penzberg: the last day of the old “post office”. In: Merkur.de , March 17, 2020.
- Monument Association Penzberg (Ed.): The Penzberg train station and Philippstrasse (PDF; 1.8 MB; with photo by Josef Linder).
Coordinates: 47 ° 45 ′ 0.6 ″ N , 11 ° 22 ′ 19.7 ″ E