Copenhagen Central Mail Building

The Centralpostbygning in Copenhagen is the administrative headquarters of the Post Danmark.

History

The building was inaugurated on September 22, 1912 and is located at the corner Tietgensgade Bernstorffsgade. The previous headquarters in Købmagergade had become too small for the current fiscal. The close proximity of the new Centralpostbygning to Copenhagen Central Station was due to the fact that with the period of the train main means of transport of the post and the post was consequently become the largest customer of Danske Statsbaner. However, the remoteness and dimensioning of the new headquarters led to critical Press. Heinrich Wenck was both architect built in the same period, the main station and the post office building. The latter Wenck designed with a view to further increasing business revenue. The former post office is now decommissioned.

Architecture

The front part of the building is designed as a four-winged building, whose front house is located with the face side of the Tietgensgade. The right wing was extended and ends in a T-shaped part of the building. One half of this Ts and the rear building of the four-wing building include a courtyard, which is closed by a one-story wing on the Bernstorffsgade.

The building has up to the just mentioned wings over three floors and an underground floor, where one day a tunnel leading to the main train station. The facade on the Tietgensgade has a length of 48 meters, the three - and single-storey wing at the Bernstorffsgade along 115 meters.

The Centralpostbygning is held in a neo-baroque Palais style. On a granite pedestal red brick walls to follow. The mansard roof is made schwarzglasierten brick with copper -roofed attic. Also covered copper is the centrally placed tower of the front building. In addition to the courtyards refers primarily as the exposed surface of the Tietgensgade on French aristocratic palaces of the 17th century. It has a three window bays wide Mittelrisaliten whose four pilasters of sandstone. In addition, the ornaments of the gable, cornice and door and window frames made of sandstone. In Risalitteil there are three portals, each over a lantern. There is another portal to the respective outermost window bays.

At his inauguration decreed the building of a assessable as luxurious interior: Teak and mahogany decorations, central heating and electricity in all rooms and flush toilets. Construction took three years and the cost amounted to 2.5 million kroner (equivalent to 2012 more than 140 million crowns).

Kulturarvsstyrelsen rated 2002 Centralpostbygning due to numerous internal modifications not a monument, but the building was considered by the Authority to the site initiated in 2010, 1001 fortællinger om Danmark, which captures the Danish cultural heritage, with one entry.

Stamps

On the occasion of the inauguration of the building was the Danish post office in 1912 her " first real special stamp " ( " første egentlige særfrimærke " ) out of the building as a motive. For the centenary of an eight - crown stamp was released, which also, however, shows the building from a different perspective.