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Kochler Amplifier Office: What was amplified there?

2020-10-28T14:09:10.303Z


In the course of its planned demolition by the community, there have been repeated reports about the amplifier office in Kochel in recent weeks. But what exactly was reinforced in the yellow building on the outskirts?


In the course of its planned demolition by the community, there have been repeated reports about the amplifier office in Kochel in recent weeks.

But what exactly was reinforced in the yellow building on the outskirts?

Kochel am See

- If you are looking for people in Kochel who still know exactly what was strengthened in the former amplification office, built in 1927, you will find it difficult.

Even the renowned Kochler local history researcher Prof. Jost Knauss, according to his own statements, has only superficial knowledge - but at least: "It was a facility of the German telephone service and the intelligibility has been improved here through technical measures," Knauss reports.

One of the few who can still explain quite well what the building designed by the architect Franz Holzhammer is all about is Gerhard Kirste.

Today the architect Holzhammer is considered to be one of the most influential people in the so-called “Munich Post School” - a modern architectural style between 1920 and 1934. “In the past, the telephone signals were amplified in the building.

You have to think of it as a large electricity substation, ”explains Kirste, whose father still worked in the Kochler amplifier office between the 1960s and 1980s.

Quasi the further development of the "Fräuleins vom Amt"

And not only there: "He drove around all over the Oberland and set up telephones," says Kirste.

As a boy he sometimes accompanied his father to the Kochler amplifier office.

In one part of the building there are "huge rooms" that used to have several rows of so-called rotary dials, remembers Kirste.

These "voters" were special devices with which the incoming phone calls were mechanically forwarded - quasi the further development of the "Fräuleins vom Amt", so Kirste.

"It still had to be unplugged by hand." "It just hummed like that" in these rooms, remembers Kirste.

The repeater office's task was to compensate for the cable losses on long lines so that the analog signals running over copper lines could be transported to the next repeater office - for example in Weilheim.

As Kirste knows, there was also a small amplifier office at the church cemetery in Walchensee - a branch of the Kochler office, so to speak.

There was also such a branch on Bahnhofstrasse in Benediktbeuern.

Both, says Kirste, are still in operation today - of course equipped with new technology.

And digital technology is still being used in the new building of the Kochler Amplifier Office.

Monument conservationists speak of one of the most beautiful reinforcement offices in German postal construction history "

The old building from 1927 is today considered by monument conservationists to be "one of the most beautiful reinforcement offices in German postal construction history and an important part of the Munich Post Building School".

It has been a protected architectural monument since September 2018 - among other things because of the imaginative detail designs as well as the painterly integrated and composed frescoes and reliefs on the facades, which are said to come from sculptors from the Munich School, among others.

Incidentally, the historical building apparently also played a role in the first German research on the ionosphere at the radio station at the Herzogstand: The reception systems for this ionospheric research are said to have been set up in the attic of the amplifier office in Kochel.

As reported several times, the amplifier office is to be demolished.

Monument protectionists want to prevent this with a popular lawsuit, which, according to the Bavarian Constitutional Court, has "no prospect of success".

Read more news from Kochel am See & the surrounding area here.

Source: merkur

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