The functionalist post office building in Šumperk is a cultural monument

Šumperk - The post office building on General Svoboda Street in Šumperk has been added to the list of protected cultural monuments. Heritage experts included it there because it is among the most significant examples of interwar functionalist architecture in the country. This was stated today by Tomáš Tichák, an associate of the Olomouc branch of the National Heritage Institute.
    The corner multi-story building in the shape of an inverted L was built in 1937 according to the design of the prominent Brno architect Ernst Wiesner. The former post and telegraph office is considered valuable by heritage experts for its generous volumetric articulation, elegance, and noble monumentality.
    "For example, it also has an unusually designed roof, originally covered with slate and now with a substitute that matches its shape to a monastery vault," noted Tichák. The building became a monument at the initiative of the Olomouc branch of the National Heritage Institute.
    Another of Šumperk's functionalist buildings was previously listed as a cultural monument. The four-story former commercial and residential Katz House on Šumperk's Main Street, built in 1930 according to architect Ernst Hantschl's design, became a monument in 2007.

> Wiesner's competition design for the Post and Telegraph Office building in Šumperk