Post office building Saverne
The post office building in Saverne , a town in the French region of Grand Est in the Bas-Rhin department , is located opposite the Saverne train station and is still fully preserved today, as it was built 120 years ago. Immediately after the Second World War, a telephone exchange in the style of the time was added on the site behind the building.
history
The building was designed by the architect and post office councilor Ludwig Bettcher (1846–1912) on behalf of the Deutsche Reichs-Post und Telegraphen-Verwaltung in 1894 and built in red Vosges sandstone . In the neo-Renaissance built style, it focuses particularly on the Wilhelmine era applied in other public buildings German Renaissance. Many other buildings in Alsace-Lorraine were built by Bettcher, including the main post office in Weißenburg (1892), then the post offices in Mulhouse (1896), Strasbourg (1896–99), Hagenau (1902) and Metz , which were also still in use (1907-11). Post buildings as state buildings were particularly important in terms of design.
The post office building was initially called “Neue Post” to differentiate it from the previous “Alte Post”, which was also housed in the building of the Metzger & Weil hardware store . In 1966 the building was inscribed on the French Heritage Register.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Niels Wilcken: Architecture in the border area: the public building industry in Alsace-Lorraine, 1871-1918, vol. 38 Institute for regional studies in Saarland 2000, ISBN 9783923877386 , p. 138
- ^ Main post office Metz on Structurae
- ↑ private homepage on the history of Saverne
- ↑ Entry No. IA00055463 in the Base Mérimée of the French Ministry of Culture (French)