Bad Liebenstein post office

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Cultural monument post office from 1895 in Bad Liebenstein (2012)
The post office as a stamp motif

The Bad Liebenstein post office is a representative building from the Wilhelminian era and is now a monument of the city of Bad Liebenstein in the Wartburg district in Thuringia . The main building, erected in 1895 in the half-timbered style of the Franconian-Henneberg region, is one of the most famous sights of the city and was selected in 1982 as a motif for the GDR postage stamp series Buildings of the Deutsche Post .

For the Liebenstein spa, located in the Duchy of Saxony-Meiningen , there was initially a room in the “Zum Felsenkeller” inn that was used as a post office. A mail coach ran three times a week on the Thurn-und-Taxis post line Eisenach - Witzelroda - Schwallungen - Meiningen , the transfer point for Liebensteiner mail was in Witzelroda. With the opening of the Werra railway, the reloading point was relocated to Immelborn station, a messenger mail line was set up to Liebenstein and Schweina , it existed until 1889. With the construction of the railway line from Liebenstein to Immelborn, Liebenstein received a direct connection to the rail mail service.

The Liebenstein post office was inaugurated in 1895 and was used for mail and parcel traffic, and later also for telephone traffic in the spa town. The office's office address changed several times: first Liebenstein, since the establishment of the Reichspost in 1872 the post was posted to Liebenstein (Saxony-Meiningen), from 1907 Bad Liebenstein (Saxony-Meiningen), after the formation of the state of Thuringia on May 1st 1920 Bad Liebenstein. The post office building was expanded in 1927 - according to the address on the facade. These are the rooms to the right of the turret with the former telegraph station and the former baggage claim.

In the south facade there is an ornamental gable which already bore the imperial eagle . This was later replaced by the imperial eagle of the Weimar Republic. In the GDR era, the imperial eagle was covered by a wooden plaque with the then valid postal symbol - black post horn on a yellow background - and was exposed again after the political change when renovation work was due, but without highlighting the words "Deutſche Reichspoſt".

Trivia

At the point where the “POSTAMT” is located, there is actually too much space for little text. After the building of the house, the original inscription correctly read “IMPERIAL POST OFFICE”, as can be read on old postcards.

The Thurn und Taxis ' postal mailbox in front of the building was only set up in 1995 for the centenary. Only a few years later the post office was closed and transferred to a private post agency elsewhere. The letter distribution center has remained in the post office to this day.

Web links

Commons : Postamt (Bad Liebenstein)  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Peter Fischer: GDR universal catalog . Transpress-Verlag, Berlin 1986, ISBN 3-344-00001-2 , p. 542-543 .
  2. ↑ a b Walter Lückert: Bad Liebenstein post office turned 100 . In: Altensteiner Blätter . Yearbook 1995. Südthüringer Verlag, Schweina 1995, p. 93-94 .

Coordinates: 50 ° 48 ′ 57.3 "  N , 10 ° 21 ′ 10.5"  E