Hôtel des Postes, Historic post office in Metz, France

The Hôtel des Postes stands on the place du Général-de-Gaulle, facing the Metz-Ville station. Built in Rhenish Romanesque Revival style, it has a long red Vosges sandstone facade with rows of round-arched windows, a steep slate roof with dormer windows, and a tall square tower with a pyramidal roof above the central arched entrance.

The building was commissioned by German authorities between 1907 and 1911 when Metz was part of the German Empire under Wilhelm II. After World War I, the city returned to French control and the structure adapted to its new administration.

The building's name changed with its rulers: it opened in 1911 as the Neue Oberpostdirektion, the German imperial postal directorate, and became the Hôtel des Postes after Metz returned to France. After 1918 the French removed the imperial eagles carved on the facade, and the building kept serving as the city's central post office until 2019.

The building faces the Metz-Ville station across the triangular place du Général-de-Gaulle, a short walk from the station exits. Since 2019 the postal counters have moved to the first floor of the Centre des Congrès Robert Schuman, so the building itself is seen from the square rather than entered for postal business.

The tower was modelled on a keep, giving the post office the look of a fortress and recalling the military prestige of the German Empire that had annexed Metz. The imperial eagles carved on the facade were removed by the French after 1918.