Veilbronn in the 1950s. Post The oldest note of the postal service in Heiligenstadt comes from the year 1733 when the prospective Catholic clergyman Josef Rösch in Bamberg stated that his father had for many years been the postmaster in Heiligenstadt. In 1853, the Briefniederlage (“letter repository”) was replaced with a Brief- und Fahrpostexpedition (“letter and coach service”). Whenever the postal agent changed, the station for the service also changed. In 1892, Heiligenstadt got a postal stop for the so-called Cariolpostlinie to Aufseß and Hollfeld. Another such postal line ran to the railway station in Ebermannstadt. In 1898 came the establishment of a planned postal agency, whose agents complained about the strenuous duty because the postal vehicles always came at night or very early in the morning, making it necessary for them to be on duty then. Letter and parcel post was carried by motor vehicles. The postal delivery service was provided until the 1960s by postmen on foot or bicycle. On 1 October 1874, Heiligenstadt got a Morse telegraph station, which was used until 1926. In 1907, a telephone exchange was opened. The first subscribers were the Hösch Inn and Schloss Greifenstein as well as the communities of Burggrub and Hohenpölz. References Further reading Dieter Zöberlein: Gemeindechronik Markt Heiligenstadt i. OFr. Published on the occasion of the 450-year jubilee of the conferring of market rights upon Heiligenstadt i. OFr. – Heiligenstadt 1995 Städtebausanierung in Heiligenstadt (Auszug) von Philipp Hümmer und Peter Vornlocher (Town construction reorganization in Heiligenstadt) External links Official website Bamberg (district)