Blick von Nordosten auf das Generalpostamt in der Leipziger Straße 15

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In the years 1871-74, the general post office as the central administration building of the Reichspost and the first ministerial building of the German Empire was built on the Leipziger Straße 15 design. The main facade of the neo -Renaissance building grouped around two large farms is clearly structured and designed according to the purpose of the complex. In 1893-98, a monumental extension is built on the land of Leipziger Straße No. 16-18 (left) and Behrenstraße 69-75 as well as the right-handed property Leipziger Straße 14, which the older residential buildings still visible here in the early 1890s have to give way. Destroyed in World War II, the four allegorical attic figures from the main cornice created by the Berlin sculptor Albert Jungermann were excavated in 2003 during construction work and received the new building and used by the Museum for Communication.