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Name: Post Office, Post and Telecommunications Museum
Building design: Lothar Neumann
Building erection: 1926-1929
Height - tower part: 43 meters
Height - main body: 20 meters
Width: 16 meters
Length: 142 meters













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Post Office, Post and Telecommunications Museum

The expressionistic building, in which the museum is situated, was erected as the Check Post Office in 1926-1929 according to the design by Lothar Neumann, and is the oldest tower block in Wroclaw. Post and Telecommunications Museum, created in 1921 in Warsaw, was transferred in 1955 to Wroclaw and opened on the 12th of December, 1956. This unique facility has approximately 70 thousand inventory records gathered in five departments:
Postal, Philatelic, Telecommunications, Archive and Library.


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The Post in Poland, in a modern meaning of the term, was created on the basis on the charter issued by King Sigismund Augustus on the 18th of October, 1558. With time the competence of the Polish Postal Service significantly increased. Apart from transferring and delivering correspondence, passenger and cargo transport were introduced, and in the 19th century telegraphic and telephone services appeared.
To the oldest and the most valuable museum pieces in the Postal Department belong: a fragment of a road postal column dated from 1725 with the coats of arms of Poland and Saxony, a stagecoach clock from the middle of the 18th century, a signboard of Slonim Post Station dated from the second half of the 18th century, a traveling pencil box with an inkwell dated from the 18th century, and two original horse-vehicles: a 23-man stagecoach from the middle of the 19th century, and a Polish wagon for transporting letters and parcels from 1925.


Information cited from www.ar.wroc.pl

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