Post office Oerlinghausen
| Post office Oerlinghausen | |
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 View from the north |
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| place | Oerlinghausen |
| Construction year | 1905 |
| Coordinates | 51 ° 57 '38.1 " N , 8 ° 39' 55" E |
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| Listed as a historical monument | |
The former Oerlinghausen post office is located at Rathausstrasse 15 in the Lippe town of Oerlinghausen in North Rhine-Westphalia . The building is registered with the number 51 as a monument in the municipal monument list. Today there is a branch of Deutsche Post AG at Hauptstrasse 33.
history
The first post office in Oerlinghausen was set up in the building of the Melmschen Hirsch pharmacy in Hauptstrasse 1. The pharmacist Friedrich Ernst Melm received in 1840 by Thurn und Taxis the title of Postexpeditors awarded and got the job transmitted to organize the Oerlinghauser Postal Operations and unwind. For this reason he had the right wing of his house expanded in 1857 and hired additional staff. The pharmacy served as a post office for 25 years. The letters intended for the rural communities surrounding Oerlinghausen were not delivered, but remained in the pharmacy and could be picked up there on the Sunday after going to church. The post that was not picked up was then displayed in the shop window until the addressee answered.
The first postage stamps appeared on January 1, 1852 and were canceled with a square postmark and the number 326. Thurn und Taxis was already using unsystematic numerical location coding back then. The Oerlinghauser Carl Bobe first presented a systematic structure of postcodes in 1917 . However, the system was not used in this form - in Germany postcodes were only introduced in 1941. Bobe's theoretical explanations are reflected in the structure of today's postal code systems in numerous countries, so that Carl Bobe is considered to be the inventor of the postal code . After Melm's death on August 17, 1865, FW Martheus was hired as a full-time postal expedition , who moved the post to Detmolder Strasse 6. On April 1, 1869, Martheus moved by post to his own house at Detmolder Strasse 15.
In 1905 the Reichspost built an office building at Rathausstrasse 15 and the red brick building was now the seat of the Oerlinghauser post office for the next 90 years. At the end of the Second World War , the building served as a home for fourteen refugees for some time. After the Bundespost was privatized into Deutsche Post AG in 1995, the post office was sold.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c August Reuter, City of Oerlinghausen (ed.): Oerlinghausen - history and stories: Post, Eisenbahn, Autobus , 1984. Page 97
- ↑ Katharina Korell: Time leaps-Oerlinghausen . Sutton Verlag, Erfurt 2011, ISBN 978-3-86680-928-4 .
- ↑ Werner Höltke: Free ride for the Oerlinghauser Carl Bobe. In: Alt-Oerlinghausen and its surroundings. Views and stories. Volume III. Kiper Publishing House, 2005.
literature
- Katharina Korell: leaps in time-Oerlinghausen . Sutton Verlag, Erfurt 2011, ISBN 978-3-86680-928-4 .
- Werner Höltke: Free passage for Carl Bobe from Oerlinghauser. In: Alt-Oerlinghausen and its surroundings. Views and stories. Volume III. Kiper Publishing House, 2005.
- City of Oerlinghausen (Ed.): Oerlinghausen - history and stories , 1984.
