Post building with fence and courtyard paving (Luckenwalde)

Former post office

The post office building with enclosure and courtyard paving is a listed building at Poststrasse 19 in Luckenwalde , the district town of the Teltow-Fläming district in Brandenburg .

history

The city received mail from neighboring Treuenbrietzen until 1717 . Subsequently, the Prussian Post set up a postal expedition , which was elevated to a first-class post office in 1841 . In the course of the economic boom in the city, the demand for postal services continued to rise and so the post office began construction on April 1, 1890. The service began on September 30, 1891 and was maintained until 1997. Subsequent use as a youth hotel or 24-hour kindergarten could not be realized. In 2015, a private investor wants to build 26 barrier-free rental apartments in the building .

architecture

The two-story building was made of reddish brick . The windows, the cornices and the corner pillars are lavishly structured in light, partly two-tone sandstone in the style of the Dutch Neo-Renaissance . On the street side there is a rectangular stair tower, which was raised at a later date. The gables in the gable roof are intricately curved.

literature

Georg Dehio (arr. Gerhard Vinken et al.): Handbook of German Art Monuments - Brandenburg. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich / Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-422-03123-4 .
City of Luckenwalde (Ed.): City of Luckenwalde - Historical walks , flyer, without date, p. 24