Post office Kötzschenbroda

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The former post office Kötzschenbroda , also referred to as the Imperial Post Office , was a post office building; it is located at Meißner Straße 285 in the Kötzschenbroda district of the Saxon city of Radebeul .

Former post office Kötzschenbroda

description

Garage construction in the rear of the property, behind the railway station tracks
Rear wing extensions from the west
Back from the platform. Left in the background on the slope edge of the Jacobstein

The site of the listed post office is on the south side of Meißner Strasse; As the third plot of land from the intersection with Bahnhofstrasse , the rear is still adjacent to the tracks of the Kötzschenbroda station , which was opened in 1840 and is now a protected monument, with the now modernized S-Bahn stop.

At the rear of the property there is a three-axle garage building with a mansard roof and a bat dormer in the middle of the two long sides. The interior is illuminated through transverse oval windows, three on the back of the building and one in each of the narrow views.

At the front of the property is the actual post office, which is surrounded by a bypass. The “monumental main structure” stands across the widened footpath along Meißner Strasse. It is two-storey and five-axis above a flat sandstone basement ; on top sits an expanded, tiled mansard roof with gable dormers. The middle three window axes of the plastered building sit in an only slightly protruding central projection , which continues upwards as a pent roof house , separated by a cranked main cornice. The risalit itself is structured vertically by colossal pilasters, which are continued in the roof house as pilaster strips.

On the left side next to the risalit is the public entrance through a sandstone arched portal, above with a transverse oval framed skylight . The high rectangular windows on the upper floor of the street view have parapet mirrors, in the middle with a stucco medallion , on both sides with festoons . In addition, the windows in this view, which are framed in sandstone, have keystones that are adorned by additional festoons on the risalit upper floor.

The two side views are biaxial. The rear axis is formed by a slightly protruding staircase risalit, which has an ornate sandstone arched portal for the side entrance on the ground floor and which is closed at roof level by an even more protruding segment gable with a transverse oval window.

At the rear of the main building there is a building-high, two-storey wing structure in the middle, which results in a T-shaped floor plan. The simply plastered wing of the building is almost as long as the front part of the building is wide, but narrower. On the six-axis long sides of this wing there are large, sheet-metal triangular gables in front of the roof areas. The four windows per gable are framed by five pilaster strips, which extend down through the main cornice and stop there like supporting consoles. On the narrow rear side on the western edge of the building there is a stairwell projection.

On the east side of the post office building, in the corner of the reserve, there is a square, two-by-two-axis structure one storey high. On this there is an exit from the upper floor, protected by a railing. The next three axes form a loading platform that is protected by a protruding pent roof. On the west side of the post office building there is a single-storey building wing with a flat roof, which is 7 window axes long due to the rear staircase projection. All ground floor windows including the street front are barred.

history

The regular riding mail service between Dresden and Leipzig, which was carried out in Saxony from 1652 onwards, became a regular Leipzig-Dresdener Postkalesche in 1683 with two fixed post stations in the area of ​​the Lößnitz villages , the Gasthof Serkowitz (until 1786) and the Gasthof Zitzschewig , the Saxon long-distance route known on the Leipziger Landstrasse near the Chausseehaus Zitzschewig (compare postal history and postage stamps of Saxony ).

On July 1, 1854, the Kötzschenbrodaer Postexpedition (3rd class) was set up on the property at Hauptstrasse 18 (today Altkötzschenbroda 18 ); the former pharmacist Johann Gottlieb Strasser was in charge. In addition to Kötzschenbroda, the area of ​​the rural delivery district consisted of all Loessnitz localities except Wahnsdorf, which belonged to the Eisenberg-Moritzburg district, and the localities of Coswig , Kötitz and Kaditz . From 1862 August Forbriger was the post administrator (until 1886); With his expedition he first moved to the property at Bahnhofstrasse 7, the previous building of the Culmbacher Hof , and in 1874 to the property at Gartenstrasse 7, where Forbriger built a house at his own expense, which later housed the municipal office. Today the Kötzschenbroda savings bank building is located in the same place . Further events were the establishment of the first telegraph station in 1872, the upgrading to 2nd class mail expedition in 1876 and the 1st class mail expedition in 1897. In 1889 the post office moved into the new building at Bahnhofstrasse 12b , where the telephone exchange was also set up in 1891. Post aid points of the post office Kötzschenbroda were established in Lindenau and Zitzschewig in 1894 and in 1896 in the property of the Goldene Weintraube inn on Meißner Strasse in Niederlößnitz , on the border with the Oberlößnitz-Radebeul district .

In 1914, the municipal council decided to build a representative new building, the planning of which for a neo-baroque official building dated May 11th of that year was generally specified by the Reich Post Office in Berlin. The commissioned Oberpostdirektion Dresden took care of the detailing of the draft; the secret post office building supervisor Winckler simplified the arched windows originally planned on the ground floor, and no vases were placed on the central projectile.

The two-storey villa on the property at Meißner Straße 285, which the local master bricklayer Moritz Große had built in the 19th century, was cleared and construction began on a plot of land next to the Kötzschenbrodaer train station, which had been part of the Saxon long-distance railway connection Leipzig-Dresden since 1840 . Parts of the post office were put into use in autumn 1916 and opened in 1917. Due to the First World War, the official building was not completed until 1921.

With the unification of the two cities of Radebeul and Kötzschenbroda in 1935 to form the district-free urban district of Radebeul , the post office was renamed Postamt Radebeul 2 , while the Radebeul post office at Pestalozzistraße 4 became the post office Radebeul 1 .

After the fall of the Wall, the post office was closed to the public in 2000 and only used as a functional building for Telekom. Since the so-called Alte Post in Radebeul-Ost was also closed as a post office in 1997, mail in Radebeul is only accepted via postal agencies .

literature

Web links

Commons : Kötzschenbrodaer Postamt  - collection of pictures
  • Historical aerial photo of the Kötzschenbroda train station. ( Memento from December 5, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) In: Manfred Richter: Radebeul on historical postcards; from yesteryear. (The second plot from the left in the top row shows the previous house, which was demolished for the post office, plus the small building on the third plot from the left. The house above the tracks and on the right of the sunken street is the post office predecessor, Bahnhofstraße 12b.).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Volker Helas (arrangement): City of Radebeul . Ed .: State Office for Monument Preservation Saxony, Large District Town Radebeul (=  Monument Topography Federal Republic of Germany . Monuments in Saxony ). SAX-Verlag, Beucha 2007, ISBN 978-3-86729-004-3 , p. 213-214 .
  2. ^ Large district town of Radebeul (ed.): Directory of the cultural monuments of the town of Radebeul . Radebeul May 24, 2012, p. 26 (Last list of monuments published by the city of Radebeul. The Lower Monument Protection Authority, which has been located in the Meißen district since 2012, has not yet published a list of monuments for Radebeul.).
  3. ↑ Post Offices. In: Frank Andert (Red.): Stadtlexikon Radebeul . Historical manual for the Loessnitz . Published by the Radebeul City Archives. 2nd, slightly changed edition. City archive, Radebeul 2006, ISBN 3-938460-05-9 , p. 152-154 .

Coordinates: 51 ° 6 ′ 30 ″  N , 13 ° 37 ′ 44 ″  E