Post office Pankow I
| Post office Pankow | |
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.jpg) Front view in winter 2010 |
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| Data | |
| place | Berlin |
| architect | Carl Schmidt |
| Architectural style | classicism |
| Construction year | 1921-1925 |
| Floor space | 1000 m² |
| Coordinates | 52 ° 34 '6.7 " N , 13 ° 24' 40.8" E |
The Pankow Post Office is a monument in the Berlin district of Pankow in the district of the same name . It is located at Berliner Straße 12, between the Pankow train station and Schulstraße. The post office was established in the early 1920s, shortly after Pankow and the surrounding towns were incorporated into Greater Berlin . The Deutsche Reichspost had to provide letters and parcels for a rapidly growing population, and pneumatic post and public telephone exchanges had to be set up and maintained. The post office was officially closed on May 1st, 2016. A small post office will continue to be maintained on the ground floor.
history
First postal facilities in Pankow
The first municipal facilities for handling letters and parcels were developed in Berlin from 1862, in the municipality of Pankow the " Postexpedition der Stadt Pankow N 19 " was created in Breite Straße 35. By 1912, the central Reich Postal Administration had measures to adapt to the increased transport volumes, including the commissioning of a modest new building in 1887 at Breite Straße 24a and the opening of a post office at Breite Straße 22. The first post office building at Breite Straße 35 was demolished at the end of the 19th century and the town hall was built in its place Pankow . In 1904, the Reichspost had the Imperial Post Office moved again to a building at Wollankstrasse 4 and in 1912 it opened Post Office II at Berliner Strasse 110.
A new post office building is being built
In parallel to these developments, the city of Berlin made a building plot available at Berliner Straße 12 and commissioned the architect Carl Schmidt to work out plans for a representative new post office building. Under Schmidt's direction, a four-storey plastered building was built on the above-mentioned parcel until 1925, which blended into the street front of the residential buildings that were being built at the same time. The new main office was inaugurated in 1923 and completion took until 1925. All of the previous post offices in Pankow mentioned above were closed at this time. The equipment of the new house corresponded to the technical standard of the time, among other things there was a connection to the Berlin pneumatic tube network . In addition, the official apartments of the first post director Julius Schwarzer and a “ postman ” were located here . Because it was the first central post office in the then newly formed administrative district of Pankow , it was named Pankow 1.
Only the address books currently provide information about the intervening years (1925 until the end of the Second World War ): the city of Berlin remained the owner of the property for a while, the official apartments were retained. In 1933 Julius Schwarzer was still the director of the facility, and from 1937 he was succeeded by Richard Dietz, who carried the title of “Post Office Man”. A subordinate official also continued to live in the office building, which is now the “Postamt Betriebsstelle Pankow d. FA Nord ”and also housed a telegraph construction department. In the 1930s, the property came into the possession of the Deutsche Reichspost , whose Berlin headquarters were at Herbartstrasse 18 in Berlin-Charlottenburg . In 1940 the facility was called “Postamt 1, Betriebsstellep 48 d. F. A. Nord “, the telegraph construction department was still present. In addition to the bailiff Dietz and the postman, a “Tel. Werkführer “with the name K. Eichbaum. In 1943 the named people lived in the office building and its name had not changed.
Between 1945 and 1990
After the end of the Second World War, the postal structures were initially retained despite the division into the four sectors . In Berlin, the administrative center was called "Oberpostdirektion" (OPD). But the Deutsche Reichspost was soon separated into the institutions in the West Berlin districts and the offices in East Berlin . The latter were subordinate to the District Directorate for Post and Telecommunications.
The post office building described here was named “Deutsche Post, Berlin-Pankow 1; Hauptpostamt ”, a branch“ Berlin-Pankow 2 ”in Pichelswerder Strasse was set up.
Numerous functional technical equipment such as teleprinters, pneumatic post, workshop machines were maintained and used. However, counter rooms, hygiene facilities and work rooms were gradually modernized. Around 1968 the entire building complex of the main post office was renovated. In the years up to around 1980, the main post office (HPA) Pankow was responsible for the post offices in Blankenburg, Blankenfelde, Buch, Buchholz, Heinersdorf, Karow, Niederschönhausen, Rosenthal and Schönholz. The accounting, human resources department and the central vehicle fleet with workshop were located at Berliner Straße 12.
Then the post offices in Buch and Buchholz (with Blankenburg, Heinersdorf and Karow) became independent. In Pankow, a post office 3 opened at Elsa-Brändström-Strasse 15 at the same time, and post offices in Achtermannstrasse and on the Prenzlauer Promenade at the corner of Thulestrasse were also designated as the location of the post offices. At 140 Charlottenburger Strasse there was an investigation center for mail that had not arrived or was incompletely addressed.
Since 1990
In 1993/1994, when the post office was transferred from the former post office of the GDR to the Deutsche Bundespost , the latter had the building renovated and the facade renewed. With the implementation of the administrative reform of the Deutsche Bundespost (which was renamed Deutsche Post AG ) from 1994, parts of the post office building on Berliner Straße are empty. In the counter, however, there is still public traffic and the Postbank maintains a finance center.
architecture
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The building is symmetrically designed in a strictly classical style and has a T-shaped floor plan. The 50 meter long street front with 13 axes is dominated by a three-axis central projecting with the main entrance, divided by two columns. Over the three floors there is an attic floor under a gable roof . Above the risalit there were probably the offices of the post office manager, equipped with a loggia, the roof of which is supported by four pillars. The facade is designed in gray and reddish tones - the red structured plaster clad the ground floor area, the cornice and the corners of the risalits. The roof is covered with red roof tiles.
On the south side of the building, only the courtyard entrance interrupts the facade symmetry. The vehicle fleet and an loading / unloading zone are located in the courtyard. The entire property including buildings covers around 3000 square meters. The roof of the 14-meter-deep street wing jumps back towards the courtyard opposite the building and forms a flat roof in two places. A service entrance joins the passage on the street side. The cross wing attached in the middle is about 36 meters long.
The main portal is directly connected to the counter hall via nine steps, which receives its daylight through arched windows. Above the main entrance is in post yellow in Gothic script to see running writing "post office".
On the north side of the building there is a second entrance for the post office workers employed here. The sculptural supraports with opposite grips that hold a coat of arms above the two side portals form an additional facade decoration .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ DP: Post branch in Berlin-Pankow, Berliner Straße 12 with opening times , accessed on October 24, 2019.
- ^ History of the Pankower Post on a private homepage ; Authorities, institutions, associations . In: Berliner Adreßbuch , 1920, V, p. 220. "Post- und Telegraphenamt I (public telephone station), Wollankstrasse 4 and Postamt II, Berliner Strasse 110 (go to Postamt I)".
- ↑ Berliner Strasse 12 . In: Berliner Adreßbuch , 1926, IV, p. 2072.
- ↑ A Rep 049-048 No. 368:. Post New Pankow in Berlin State Archive.
- ↑ Berliner Strasse 12 . In: Berliner Adreßbuch , 1930, IV, p. 2163. “Postamt”.
- ↑ Berliner Strasse 12 . In: Berliner Adreßbuch , 1937, IV, p. 2322.
- ↑ Berliner Strasse 12 . In: Berliner Adreßbuch , 1940, IV, p. 2421.
- ↑ Deutsche Post . In: Telephone book for Greater Berlin (GDR), 1955, p. 30. “Berlin-Pankow”.
- ↑ Contemporary witness report to user: 44Pinguine anno 1990
- ↑ Deutsche Post . In: Telephone book for the capital of the GDR , 1981, p. 106.
- ^ Deutsche Post branches , Postbank, Berliner Straße 12 ; Retrieved April 7, 2015.
- ↑ Institute for Monument Preservation (Ed.): The architectural and art monuments of the GDR. Capital Berlin-II . Henschelverlag, Berlin 1984, p. 27 .