Post office on Antonsplatz

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Front on Antonsplatz
Back at Postplatz with cholera fountain (1893)
Postplatz with Post Office (1911)
Postplatz with " cheese bell ", in the background the damaged telephone exchange (1946)

The post office building on Antonsplatz in Dresden was a post office building built between 1830 and 1832, which was changed several times through extensions and additions . Originally a “clearly structured and classical ” building, this design was later barely recognizable. From 1906 the building housed the Dresden telephone exchange . It was badly damaged in the air raids on Dresden in 1945 and initially remained in ruins until it was demolished in 1952 after seven years of deterioration.

Building history

The building was built between 1830 and 1832 according to plans by the architects Albert Geutebrück and Joseph Thürmer on the site of the former Saturn bastion . It was a three-story three-wing building with a flat hipped roof . The front facade was located on the northern end of the Antonsplatz and was a classicistic sandstone facade designed by Thürmer . This was divided into 15 axes, while the risalite sides were three-axis. There was a portico in the central axis . The first floor was ashlar . It was a "simple and classicist" building.

In accordance with the increased importance of the post office in the north, the original rear of the house later became its new front. The first extension took place at the end of the 1840s. During a renovation in 1893, a fourth floor with perforated corner towers was added for the insulator supports of the telegraph and telephone lines going out from here, as well as a pyramid roof on what is now the rear at Antonsplatz. The facade then showed a tail gable in the central axis, a pilaster structure as well as various window roofs and a cuboid of the facade on the upper floors.

On the opposite side of Marienstraße, the new post office Dresden 1 was built in 1901–1906 as an extension of the Dresden Post Office (Annenstraße / Am See), and since then the old post office has been officially called a telephone office . 1911–1912 a new south wing was built between the corner towers on Antonsplatz.

Web links

Commons : Post building on Antonsplatz  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Volker Helas: Architecture in Dresden 1800–1900 , Verlag der Kunst Dresden GmbH, Dresden 1991, ISBN 3-364-00261-4 , p. 87.
  2. ↑ postplatz.starkes-dresden.de: The post office building. Retrieved March 14, 2013.
  3. ↑ Volker Helas: Architecture in Dresden 1800–1900. Verlag der Kunst Dresden GmbH, Dresden 1991, ISBN 3-364-00261-4 , p. 170.

Coordinates: 51 ° 3 '2.6 "  N , 13 ° 43' 58.5"  E