Post office Schöneberg
| Post office Schöneberg | |
|---|---|
 The post office in 2010 |
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| Data | |
| place | Berlin-Schöneberg |
| architect |
Otto Spalding , Louis Ratzeburg |
| Client | Reichspost |
| Architectural style | Neo-renaissance |
| Construction year | 1901 |
| Coordinates | 52 ° 29 '8 " N , 13 ° 21' 16.5" E |
| particularities | |
| No post office since the 1980s. | |
The Post Office Schöneberg is a post office on Hauptstrasse in the Schöneberg district of Berlin . The listed building was built in 1901/1902 in the neo-renaissance style for the Deutsche Reichspost and was added and expanded several times until 1927.
History and description
The post office was built according to plans by the architects Otto Spalding and Louis Ratzeburg on the site of a former villa belonging to a Schöneberg “ millionaire farmer ”. It was created during the rapid growth of the then city of Schöneberg. Opposite stood the old Schöneberg Town Hall, destroyed in World War II , on Kaiser-Wilhelm-Platz . A machine house for the pneumatic tube system was added for the post office in 1907 . 1926–1933 the extension of the south telephone exchange followed under the direction of Fritz Nissle .
The decorative elements on the facade are made of Warthauer sandstone .
From September 1935 the first 15 was in the post office television rooms for the reception of the television station Paul Nipkow program being broadcast. The post office was one of the first places in Germany where interested parties could watch TV (→ History of TV in Germany ).
After the fire in the exhibition hall at the radio exhibition on August 19, 1935, the Paul Nipkow program was broadcast from the nearby Winterfeldtstrasse remote office. Since the range from there was only about two kilometers, the Reichspost had three television rooms set up near it. The parlor in Schöneberg was equipped with a simple home receiver and could only accommodate a few spectators. The postal service was given up here in the 1980s.
Neo-Renaissance style window
Sandstone decorations over the entrance
Facade details
Future of the building
The Bricks commercial center will be built in the courtyards and in planned new buildings on the site in the 2010s . The renovation plans are carried out by the architects Graft , and commercial businesses are to move in later. A branch of the Kabbalah Center is planned as the main tenant for the switching room of the telegraph office . In addition, two new buildings with a total of 128 rental apartments are to be built.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Michael Thomas Röblitz, Ralf Schmiedecke: Berlin-Schöneberg - Not just “Like once in May” Sutton Verlag GmbH, 2008, ISBN 3-89702-729-1 , p. 16.
- ^ Richard W. Burns: Television: An International History of the Formative Years Institution of Electrical Engineers, 1998, ISBN 0-85296-914-7
- ^ Television in Germany up to 1945: (22) Fernseh-Theater , Deutsches Fernsehmuseum Wiesbaden.
- ↑ Elmar Schütze: Searching for meaning: Schöneberg is the Mecca for Kabbalah followers. In: Berliner Zeitung , January 10, 2016.