Postal Museum Rheinhessen
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| Data | |
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| place | Erbes-Büdesheim |
| Art |
Post and Communication Museum
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| opening | June 15, 2002 |
| Number of visitors (annually) | 400 |
| management |
Manfred Hinkel, Heiner Stauffer
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| Website | |
| ISIL | DE-MUS-002922 |
The Rheinhessen Post Museum was opened on June 15, 2002 in the former post office in the town hall of the Erbes-Büdesheim community . It is run by the Association for Postal History Rheinhessen e. V. operates and provides information about the history of the post in Rheinhessen with its exhibition and occasional lectures . The exhibits on display come mainly from private collections, liquidations of former post offices and permanent loans from the Museum Foundation Post and Telecommunications .
Since the museum is run privately, with the regular opening days on the limited International Museum Day , Ascension Day , the Heritage Day and on the penultimate Sunday of August (notch in Erbes-Büdesheim). There is also an extra opening for registered groups; Guided tours are offered.
The former local mayor and CDU member of the state parliament, Heinz-Hermann Schnabel, is one of the best-known members of the Post Museum's friends' association .
Exhibits
Documents, photos and objects related to the topic of postal and telecommunications are exhibited . This also includes a stagecoach from the former archive of the Museum Foundation Post and Telecommunications.
Pay phone with rotary dial from the days of the Bundespost
Pay phone with keypad and telephone receiver in the Telekom color magenta , as well as an emergency call lever
Emergency levers in German telephone boxes
Post mailbox (for) Reichspost
French mailbox of the PTT La Poste , which hung in the former Worms post office
Stamp machines to crank, to pull and to choose
Letter scales from the 1930s and 1950s
real post horn
The Bundespost banner is flagged when the museum is open.
Annual special exhibitions
- 2008: The field post of the First World War in Rheinhessen
- 2009: Post Office Savings Bank
- 2010:?
- 2011: Failed in the museum, but a traveling exhibition with the theme "150 Years of Landpost in Rheinhessen"
- 2012: Post in children's hands ( children's post )
literature
- 50 square meters of postal history - ten years of the Rheinhessen Postal Museum ; Ed. German Society for Post and Telecommunication History in Das Archiv , issue 2/2012; Pp. 70-71
Web links
Coordinates: 49 ° 45 '26.3 " N , 8 ° 1' 57.4" E