Postfuhramt
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Postfuhramt (English: Mail Delivery Office), formally known as Kaiserliche Postfuhramt (English: Imperial Mail Delivery Office) is a historic building built in 1881 and located on Oranienburger Straße (English: Oranienburger Street) at the corner of Tucholskystraße (English: Tucholsky Street), in the Spandauer Vorstadt area of Mitte, Berlin. Since 1975, it has been a listed as a protected building (via Denkmalschutz).
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- office building
- Country
- Germany
- Located in
- Bezirk Mitte
- Location
- Berlin-Mitte
- Image
- Berlin, Mitte, Oranienburger Strasse 35-36, Postfuhramt.jpg
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- Commons category
- Postfuhramt (Berlin)
- heritage designation
- architectural heritage monument
- commissioned by
- Reichspost
- inception
- 1881-00-00
- floors above ground
- 3
- street address
- Oranienburger Straße 35/36
- capital cost
- 1100100
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Encyclopedic overview
8 sectionsContents
- Pre-history
- Postfuhramt early history
- Architecture
- Modernization and World War II
- Postfuhramt present–day
- List of portraits
- References
- External links
Postfuhramt (English: Mail Delivery Office), formally known as Kaiserliche Postfuhramt (English: Imperial Mail Delivery Office) is a historic building built in 1881 and located on Oranienburger Straße (English: Oranienburger Street) at the corner of Tucholskystraße (English: Tucholsky Street), in the Spandauer Vorstadt area of Mitte, Berlin. Since 1975, it has been a listed as a protected building (via Denkmalschutz).
At the Postfuhramt Ottomar Anschütz held the first showing of life sized pictures in motion on 25 November 1894. From 2006 until 2012, the space hosted an art gallery and exhibitions. In 2012, the building was sold to Biotronik, a medical manufacturing company specializing in medical technology.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Postfuhramt” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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