Copenhagen Central Post Building

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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(s)	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 Villa Copenhagen, new luxury hotel planned to open April 2020.

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 Mail Building in Købmagergade from 1779. 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.

References

"Palatial Mansions in Copenhagen". Astoft. Archived from the original on 2011-05-27. Retrieved 2011-04-15.

External links

Renderings in the Danish National Art Library

Vesterbro/Kongens Enghave

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Education

Rysensteen Gymnasium
AAU Copenhagen

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Railway stations

History

v t e Heinrich Wenck
Buildings	Helsingør railway station (2nd) (1889–1891) Lyngby railway station (2nd) (1891) Østerport railway station (1894–1897) Humlebæk railway station (1897) Kokkedal railway station (1897) Nivå railway station (1897) Rungsted Kyst railway station (1897) Skodsborg railway station (1897) Vedbæk railway station (1897) Espergærde railway station (1902) Esbjerg railway station (2nd) (1902–1904) Holstebro railway station (2nd) (1904) Copenhagen Central Station (3rd) (1904–1911) Korsør railway station (2nd) (1906) Copenhagen Central Post Building (1909–1912) Odense railway station (2nd) (1912–1914) Taastrup railway station (1917) Vejen railway station (2nd) (1917) Nørreport railway station (1st) (1918) Glostrup railway station (1918–1919)

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