Meiningen post office
| Meiningen post office | |
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 Today's post office in 2015 |
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| Data | |
| place | Meiningen |
| architect |
August Kind (floor plan), Richard Kux (construction management) |
| Client | Reichspost |
| Architectural style | Neo-renaissance |
| Construction year | 1879 |
| Coordinates | 50 ° 34 '5.1 " N , 10 ° 24' 59.1" E |
The Meiningen post office is a historic post office in the old town of the southern Thuringian district town of Meiningen . The building, built as an imperial post office in the French neo-renaissance style, is a listed building. Since the privatization of the Post, a post office with a counter hall and self-service systems as well as a Postbank branch have been housed here.
location
The post office, which has been known as the post office since 1995, is located on the northeast corner of the market square in the city center and today, together with the town church and, until 1945, with the town hall, which was destroyed at the time, characterizes the appearance of the square.
history
The post office was built on behalf of the Reichspost according to plans by the architect August Kind , who worked as a post office construction officer at the General Post Office in Berlin, and under the supervision of post construction manager Richard Kux (1848–1923) as the Imperial Post and Telegraph Office Meiningen . The building was built between 1877 and 1879 during the rebuilding of the burned down parts of the city as a result of the great city fire of 1874 on a newly parceled plot of land. The post office opened on December 15, 1879.
In 1915 a modernization took place including the conversion of the counter hall and the relocation of the parcel acceptance. In 1920 the telegraph construction office was housed on the upper floor . The telegraph and telephone office was relocated to the neighboring former state parliament building in Saxony-Meiningen in 1932 . In 1951 the telephone office and the telegraph construction office were merged to form the Meiningen telecommunications office , which in 1958 was given its own office. From 1956 five branch post offices were set up in the entire urban area of Meiningen. Further conversions and modernizations of the customer facilities and technical systems took place in 1935, 1982, the beginning of the 1990s and in the 2010s.
Services
Today's post office 523 offers all the services of Deutsche Post and Postbank . The facility also includes a direct post office and a post office box system . As self-service facilities, there are stamp and ATM machines, bank statement printers and a packing station .
Buildings
Corner wing of the post office with main entrance
Architectural jewelry in sandstone above the main entrance: female figures, on the left with a Morse code button , on the right with letters falling from a cornucopia
Relief medallion with symbols of the telegraph system on the facade
Relief medallion with symbols of the postal system on the facade
Former Meiningen state parliament building, from 1932 the seat of the telegraph and telephone office, later the telecommunications office
Web links
Single receipts
- ↑ www.glass-portal Architect biographies
- ↑ Kuratorium Meiningen (ed.): Stadtlexikon Meiningen. Bielsteinverlag, Meiningen 2008, ISBN 978-3-9809504-4-2 .