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Helmut Bomhard / Rudolf Rosenfeld / Herbert Zettel: Track Hall, Package Post Office, 1965C–1969

  • Munich, Germany, Show on map
  • #PUB #Western Europe
  • After a long period in which the postal traffic was handled in a makeshift manner via Munich's main train station, the Munich Package Post Office was built in the 1960s with an own roofed train station. On 20,000m², it has 15 platforms whose tracks are connected to the general railroad network and offers enough space for loading and unloading packages regardless of the weather. 

    The track hall is a wide-span shell structure 124 meters long, with a folded sheet structure composed of 1,600 precast concrete elements spanning a 148-meter arc. The lamellar structure on the roof made it possible to save on material and weight, while creating a sculptural appearance of the building. The long sides of the hall are closed off to the ground by the arched roof, the front side is closed off by a glass wall. This allows sufficient light to enter the oversized building. At the time of execution, it was the widest-span hall in the world made of precast elements. 

  • Heritage protected since 1996.

    Following a conversion, Deutsche Post AG used the building as the BZ 80 mail center from June 1998. In 2018, the building, including the surrounding 100,000 square meters of land, was sold to the Büschl Group (last updated on September 27, 2024).