Main Post Office, Kraków

The Main Post Office in Kraków () is a building of the

Polish Post The Polish Post (, ) is the state Mail, postal administration of Poland, initially founded in 1558. The company is headquartered in Warsaw and employs over 67,000 people. It is the largest mail-handling company in the country, which additionally ...

located at the corner of Wielopole 2 and Westerplatte 20 streets in

Kraków , officially the Royal Capital City of Kraków, is the List of cities and towns in Poland, second-largest and one of the oldest cities in Poland. Situated on the Vistula River in Lesser Poland Voivodeship, the city has a population of 804,237 ...

. The building was designed by the

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F. Setz. Joseph Sareg adapted the project and it was built between 1887 and 1889 by Charles Knaus and Tadeusz Stryjeński. Since 1899 it was the headquarters of mail in Kraków. In 1909, it was the location of what is now the Polish

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with a capacity of 3600 numbers. Due to growing needs for office surface, between 1930 and 1931 it was rebuilt by Frederick Tadaniera. The interiors and furnishings were updated and in 1933 the intercity telephone exchange was installed. Another reconstruction took place during the

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. The Polish Post Office reopened on January 22, 1945. After the war, the post office has repeatedly being modernized and repaired. Since 1991 it has housed the Polish Post and Telecommunications. Buildings and structures in Kraków

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