Postal history of Nortorf

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The postal history of Nortorf describes the historical development of the postal system in Nortorf .

Postal history

In 1602 the Hamburg stock exchange elders regularly ran errands to Denmark , which took their way to Helsingör via Rendsburg , Flensburg , Odense and Copenhagen . In 1694 the messengers used the route Hamburg - Glückstadt - Itzehoe - Remmels (Hohenwestedt) - Rendsburg and further north. They passed Nortorf about 14 km to the west. The next post office was then in Rendsburg. Until 1764 the Swedish post went to Hamburg via Ulzburg - Neumünster - Rendsburg - Gottorf and always came via Nortorf, a place without a post office. Swedish postilions it was a punishable offense to accept mail that Nortorfer citizens trusted the popular Post Sweden however their letters, which transported them despite warnings, punishments and detentions.

Nortorf received a mail on July 1, 1764 . Johan Jacob Ritzius was appointed Nortorf postman. A post office was set up. On Friday every week the stagecoach drove to Neumünster in the afternoon and had to be at its destination after 3 hours. On Sundays she drove to Rendsburg at around 9 a.m. and was not allowed to exceed the 3.5 hour drive. Johan Jacob Ritzius was promoted to postmaster in 1777 and a post office was set up.

Until 1806, the post office was under the postmasters Ritzius, Münster and Sturm at the old horse market (Peermarkt) in the later Harmschen Gasthaus at the end of Poststrasse, which was probably given its street name at this time. The old inn burned down in October 1911 - today the Willy Kiel company building is located there. In 1842 the trips of the stagecoach were converted into a deligence (express mail). These ceased with the opening of the railway line on August 28, 1845. Nortorf has had a postmark since 1846. In 1871 a telegraph company was established. Telegrams could now also be transmitted in Nortorf on special lines using Morse code. Until 1881 a Nortorf postman went via Schülp - Timmaspe - Krogaspe - Böken - Bünzen - Bargfeld - Homfeld - Bucken - Innien - Gnutz. Then a post office was set up in Innia. On August 19, 1899, telephone traffic was set up in Nortorf, initially with 21 participants. By 1953 the number rose to 475 participants. In 1903 Nortorf received a public telephone station (telephone booth).

In 1933, the teleprinter replaces the Morse code operations of the telegraph company in Nortorf. In 1949, the mail trains and power posts brought about 4,000 items of mail daily for distribution, while about 3,050 items were carried out of the postal district. 2,000 to 3,000 parcels were forwarded each month. In December 1953, 12,000 packages were delivered. Before the Second World War , there were around 4,000 to 8,000 pieces. Since October 28, 1961, Nortorf can be reached in the self-dialing service under the area code 04392. Until then, long-distance calls had to be registered in advance via Neumünster. On March 23, 1962 Nortorf received the four-digit post code 2353 as part of the new post code system. On July 1, 1993, Nortorf received the new five-digit post code 24589. On November 3, 1999, a post office was opened in a grocery store. From October 21, 2009 to September 27, 2018 there was another one in a Skribo stationery store on Poststrasse. In 2018, the branch moved to the Edeka store in Niedernstrasse through a change of operator .

The post office master or head of the post office Nortorf

  • 1764–1787 postmaster Johan Jacob Ritzius
  • 1788–1792 Postmaster Katharina Maria Ritzius, Wwe. Des Jac. Ritzius
  • 1793–1802 postmaster Samuel Johann Münster
  • 1803–1806 Postmaster Frantz Martin Sturm
  • 1807–1822 Postmaster Lieutenant Thomas Andreas de Fine
  • 1822–1848 postmaster and parish bailiff Diedrich Otto Heinrich Quist
  • 1848–1851 Stationmaster Stamp is entrusted with the duties of postmaster
  • 1849–1852 No records as a result of warlike events in Schleswig-Holstein
  • 1853–1864 postmaster Heinrich Johann v. Gericke
  • May 1, 1864 Postexpeditor Langhof (Commisarisch)
  • October 1, 1864 Postexpeditor Schladetsch (later post administrator)
  • April 1, 1887 Post Administrator Christensen
  • June 1, 1892 Postal administrator Wilhelmsen
  • April 1, 1896 Postmaster Mehrens
  • November 1, 1914 Postmaster Michelsen (later Chief Postal Director)
  • September 1, 1931 Postmaster Schäfer (later post office clerk)
  • July 1, 1937 Postmaster Clausen
  • July 1, 1946 Postmaster Schröder (died January 20, 1950)
  • March 1, 1950 Postmaster Mordhorst (later Chief Postmaster)
  • October 1, 1956 Postmaster Strutz (from June 1, 1959 Chief Postmaster)
  • October 1, 1962 Post-Chief Secretary Kerbs
  • January 7, 1963 Postal Operations Inspector Wilhelm Böge
  • October 1, 1978 Postal Operations Inspector Paul Trinker
  • January 1, 1992 Postal Operations Inspector Rolf Pohlmeyer

See also

literature

  • Nortorf Chronicle by Winfried Sarnow: Nortorf: Siedlung - Flecken - Stadt, published by the city of Nortorf, printed by Wachholtz 1981.
  • Research report 166 from 1979: Postal history and philately in the former duchies of Schleswig, Holstein and Lauenburg and the Free and Hanseatic cities of Hamburg and Lübeck. Edited by the Working Group for Schleswig-Holstein Postal History and Philately eV
  • BE Crole: History of the Deutsche Post . II edition. Verlag W. Malende in Leipzig, Leipzig 1889. The author is Bruno Emil König from Berlin.
  • K. Schwarz (Postrat): Timeline of German postal history . RV Deckers Verlag, Berlin 1935, Volume 22 Post and Telegraphy in Science and Practice
  • Handheld dictionary of postal services . Frankfurt a. M. 1953.
  • Müller-Mark: Old Germany under the microscope. 7th edition, Verlag M. Zieme, Oberursel, Volume 2.
  • Society for German Postal History Schleswig-Holstein: Postal History Schleswig-Holstein , Kiel 1970.
  • Postal history collection and documentation by Karl-Heinz Köller, Nortorf.
  • Georg Reimer: Die Geschichte des Aukrugs , edited by Heinrich Bünger, 3rd expanded edition, Verlag Möller Söhne, Rendsburg 1978.
  • Heinrich Asmus, Werner Hauschildt, Peter Höhne: Update of "The History of the Aukrugs" from 1978 and supplements, Aukrug 1995.