Postamt - 15562 - Ruedersdorf - Brandenburg [Germany].
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N 52° 28.303 E 013° 47.064
33U E 417429 N 5814201
Former main post office at Ruedersdorf
Waymark Code: WMQDQF
Location: Brandenburg, Germany
Date Posted: 02/12/2016
Published By:Groundspeak Premium Member dreamhummie
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Ruedersdorf is situated 26 km (16 mi) east of Berlin centre. The municipality is noted for its limestone-open-pit mining. Some parts of the mine are used as a museum (Museumspark Ruedersdorf). Some notable buildings in Berlin such as the Brandenburg Gate are built with limestone from Ruedersdorf.

Ruedersdorf was built as a foundation of the Cistercian 1235-1250 in southeastern Barnim, where the monastery Zinna built up ten villages as the owner of the land. During this period, the legend says Ruedersdorfer farmers discovered on their fields and meadows the outcropping limestone. Right thereafter, in 1254 Ruedersdorfer limestone was used for the construction of the Dominican monastery in Strausberg.

With the privatization of the limestone mining and cement plants, as well as the demolition tattered factory building the environmental situation improved greatly. The serious dust emissions in Ruedersdorf have been significantly reduced to 1995 inclusive.

On September 23rd 2008, the municipality was awarded the title "City of Diversity" conferred by the federal government.

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Postamt Ruedersdorf

Downtown Ruedersdorf in 1904 the district Kalkberge built the post office after Drafts on advice of the Potsdam post building architect Wank as so-called Mietpostgebäude.

The two-storey building is full basement and consists of a T-shaped floor plan with a four-axis component and a gabled end building with hipped roofs. The former pediment of the head assembly with the relief of the imperial coat of arms (1945 removed) forms the urban focus of the Kirchstraße (today Hans-Striegelski-Straße).

Around 1930 the plan was a two-storey building extension, but in 1931 a single-storey extension was preferred. The original entrance area with covered balcony was replaced. Both Phases are still visible at the post office.

The ground floor has still the old layout with counter hall, acceptance, handling, packet switches, parking chamber, telegraph and telephone exchange, postman room and central corridor. Upstairs, by a staircase accessible, was the official residence of the chief post office. At the roof space the original roof structure, a small attic room with smokehouse and chimney trains are in good condition. The cellars consist of base sheet, wooden doors and executed ceiling (Prussian caps).

The imperial post office building, completed in 1905, formed a formative view and significance for urban development components in Ruedersdorf.


signed tour of Ruedersdorf


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State/Territory: Maerkisch Oderland

Zip Code: 15562

Post Office Type: stand alone post office

Historical Significance: early 20th century building

Current use: room letting office

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