Copenhagen Central Post Building

Copenhagen Central Post Building

Main facade toward Tietgensgade
General information
Architectural style Baroque Revival
Town or city Vesterbro, Copenhagen
Country Denmark
Construction started 1909
Completed 1912
Cost DKK 2.5 mio.
Client Danish Post and Telegraph Company
Design and construction
Architect Heinrich Wenck

Copenhagen Central Post Building (Danish: Centralpostbygningen), located on Tietgensgade, just behind the Central Station, in the Vesterbro district of Copenhagen, Denmark, was originally built as a new headquarters for the Danish Post and Telegraph Company and now houses Post Danmark.

The building was designed in Neo-Baroque style by Heinrich Wenck, who also designed the Central Station, and completed in 1912.

History

The Danish Mail Services traces its history back to 1624 and it was based in Marskalsgården in Købmagergade, in the heart of Copenhagen's historic city centre, from 1779.[1] When those premises became too small, in about 1900, it was decided to build a new headquarters next to the new Central Railway Station and not far from the new City Hall which was completed in 1905. Chief architect of the Danish State Railways, Heinrich Wenck, who had also designed the new central station, was charged with the commission and the new central post building was constructed from 1898 to 1812.

Architecture

The Central Post Building is designed in Neo-Baroque style, one among several styles which, as a reaction to the dominance of Historicism in Danish architecture, won popularity in the beginning of the 20th century in Denmark.

See also

References

  1. "Palatial Mansions in Copenhagen". Astoft. Retrieved 2011-04-15.

Coordinates: 55°40′15″N 12°34′05″E / 55.67083°N 12.56806°E / 55.67083; 12.56806

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