Old Post Office

The Alte Post was a late Baroque building in the area of the first Baroque city expansion of Potsdam. It was located on the corner of today's Friedrich-Ebert-Straße and Yorckstraße on the west side of the Platz der Einheit. The main façade of the building faced the city canal passing by to the south. The Alte Post was largely destroyed in the air raid on 14 April 1945 and the ruins were demolished in the post-war period. After the demolition of the residential high-rise built on the site in 1968/69 in 2009, a new building was built between 2015 and 2016, the façade structure of which takes up elements of the Alte Post.
In the course of the first city expansion under King Friedrich Wilhelm I, the site of the Alte Post was developed with a town house representative of Potsdam standards at the time. This two-storey building had seven window axes to today's Platz der Einheit (Square of Unity), which was then called "Nauensche Plantage". The massive façade was divided by pilaster strips, plaster mirrors and simple window frames. A gable dormer and a double-flight staircase emphasised the central axis of the house. The mighty mansard roof and the plinth due to a complete basement are typical of the Potsdam houses from the reign of the Soldier King, which were given to "persons of status", as they have only been preserved sporadically, especially along the city canal. According to Heinrich Ludwig Manger's "Baugeschichte von Potsdam", the interior walls and the courtyard side of the building were made of half-timbering. Manger gives the dimensions of the house as 94.5 feet on the south side to the city canal and 75 feet on the east side to the Nauen plantation.

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