Rose-Marie Woerner

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Rose-Marie Wörner (born January 24, 1927 in Magdeburg ; † March 9, 2015 in Wuppertal ) was a German garden and landscape architect specializing in the preservation of garden monuments . In her more than 40 years of activity - especially in North Rhine-Westphalia and Berlin  - she and her husband Gustav Wörner, who died in 1997, laid the scientific-conservational foundation for garden monument maintenance in Germany through expert reports, park maintenance works and exemplary implementations. The methods she developed are now considered standards.

life and work

House Alt Westerhüsen 143

Rose Wörner was born in Magdeburg as the daughter of the gardener Otto Metze, who lived at Alt Westerhüsen 143 in the Magdeburg district of Westerhüsen at the end of the 1930s . After an apprenticeship as a gardener from 1945 to 1947, she began studying garden architecture and landscape maintenance at the University of Horticulture and Regional Culture in Hanover (today Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz University Hanover ) in 1948 . She was one of the students in the founding semester of this field of study. Her diploma in 1953 was followed by an assistantship with Professor Heinrich Friedrich Wiepking until 1954 . From 1954 to 1958 the landscape architect worked in the Dortmund planning office of Rudolf Goebel, where she met her future husband Gustav Wörner, before she was again a research assistant at Wiepking's Institute for Green Planning at the University of Hanover until 1962.

In April 1962 Rose Wörner - at that time still under her maiden name Metze - dared the step into self-employment and took over the planning office in Wuppertal from Gottliebe Marcks, the daughter of the sculptor Gerhard Marcks . With her designs she was able to win various planning competitions, some of which she had already contested together with Gustav Wörner before starting her own business. In 1963 he joined the planning office as an equal partner. As a result of the success, the office grew and the project inquiries soon exceeded its capacities.

Due to her interest in art history , painting , sculpture and garden history, Rose Wörner dealt with the topic of garden monument maintenance from the mid-1960s. Together with her husband, she took on a pioneering role in Germany and in the following years devoted herself intensively to the research, preservation and maintenance of the garden cultural heritage of the Federal Republic. One of her first tasks in this area was to develop a concept for the restoration of the facilities around Brüggen Castle in 1967 . This was followed by redevelopment concepts for the green areas of several Westphalian moated castles , including Burg Vischering (1974), Burg Lüdinghausen (1978 and 1983) and Burg Hülshoff (1979). Rose Wörner achieved national fame with the park maintenance work she had developed for the Nordkirchen Castle Park in collaboration with her husband, Dieter Hennebo and Alfred Hoffmann . This was a pioneering work and is considered a milestone in the preservation of garden monuments in Germany. The collaboration of the quartet was continued in the restoration of the baroque gardens of Johann Moritz von Nassau-Siegen in Kleve in 1979 and 1983.

From 1984 Rose-Marie Wörner also worked in Berlin . There she received the order for a park maintenance work for the Great Zoo . Commissions for Viktoriapark in Berlin-Kreuzberg (1989), Treptower Park (1994), Schlosspark Bellevue and the Lustgarten followed .

In 1996 Wörner handed over their planning office to long-time employee Achim Röthing. On the occasion of her 80th birthday, the city of Kleve gave her a reception in her honor, at which Rose Wörner presented her art collection, consisting of historical garden engravings , drawings of garden art and prints, etc. a. by Gerhard Marcks, Alexander Calder and Ernst Wilhelm Nay as well as medieval miniatures from books of hours , presented to the Museum Kurhaus Kleve . At the age of over 80, she fulfilled her long-term wish and visited the famous gardens of Versailles . She died in March 2015 and was buried in the Ehrenhainstrasse cemetery in Wuppertal- Vohwinkel .

The numerous gardens and parks that Rose Wörner has dealt with in addition to the above include:

Following Rose Wörner's request, the Center for Garden Art and Landscape Architecture at Leibniz University Hannover is now managing the estate of its planning office, which, in addition to 30 running meters of files, includes almost 5,000 plans for gardens and parks, cemeteries, pedestrian zones and much more.

Memberships and honors

Rose-Marie Wörner's commitment to developing and promoting the preservation of garden monuments was also expressed through membership and active participation in numerous associations. She was a member of the Rhenish Association for Monument Preservation and Landscape Protection , of which she was a member of the scientific advisory board from 1998 to 2009. In 2010 she received honorary membership there. The landscape architect was also an honorary member of the Friends of Museum Kurhaus and Koekkoek-Haus Kleve as well as of the German Society for Garden Art and Landscape Culture (DGGL), in whose historical gardens working group she has been working since 1979. The Rhineland Regional Council drew them in 1999 for their commitment in the preservation and restoration of historic gardens and parks in Rhineland with the Rhineland Taler from. The numerous other awards and honors that Rose Wörners received include the Ferdinand von Quast Medal, named after the first Prussian state curator, which was awarded to her in December 1996 by the Berlin Senator for Urban Development and Environmental Protection.

Publications (selection)

  • The Berlin Tiergarten, past and future The Senator for Urban Development and Environmental Protection, Berlin (= Garden Monument Preservation , Book 3). Kulturbuch-Verlag, Berlin (West) 1986, DNB 870001604 .
  • Karl-Heinz Hohmann, Rose and Gustav Wörner, Hans-Christoph Stamm (editor): Museum Schloß Moyland and its park in Bedburg-Hau (Kleve district) , published by the Rhenish Association for the Preservation of Monuments and Landscape Protection (= Rheinische Kunststätten , issue 346). 2nd edition, Neusser Druck und Verlag, Neuss 1998, ISBN 3-88094-825-9 (1st edition under the title: Moyland Castle in Bedburg-Hau (Kleve district) , 1989).
  • Gustav and Rose Wörner: Park maintenance for the central park in Hardt, Wuppertal: Expert opinion , published by the City Director of Wuppertal. Volume 1: Text part, Volume 2: Subsequent evaluation of newly found original plans of the plant from 1880, 1900 and 1903. DNB 551770627 .

literature

sorted alphabetically by author

  • Petra Engelen, Reinhard Lutum: Rose-Marie Wörner. In: Rheinische Heimatpflege . Vol. 52, No. 3, 2015, ISSN  0342-1805 , pp. 238-240.
  • Frank Schalaster: Development tendencies in the preservation of garden monuments using the example of the activities of the landscape architecture office Wörner. In: Sylvia Butenschön (Ed.): Garden History Research Colloquium 2008. Compilation of the conference contributions (= gray series of the Institute for Urban and Regional Planning of the Technical University of Berlin. Volume 17). Berlin 2008, pp. 36–46 ( PDF ; 5.2 MB).
  • Frank Schalaster, Rose Wörner: The current status of reconstructions and the garden conservation practice of the Wuppertal landscape architects Rose and Gustav Wörner. In: Géza Hajós, Joachim Wolschke-Bulmahn (ed.): Reconstruction in the preservation of garden monuments. Meidenbauer, [Munich] 2007, ISBN 978-3-89975-125-3 , S, 75-81.
  • Frank Schalaster: For Rose Wörner's 80th birthday. In: Stadt + Grün. Das Gartenamt Vol. 56, No. 3, 2007, ISSN  0948-9770 , p. 58 ( PDF ; 16.2 MB).
  • Frank Schalaster: On the collaboration between the landscape architects Gustav and Rose Wörner in everyday office life: What do files and plans reveal? In: Die Gartenkunst  21 (2/2009), pp. 171–186.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Obituary for Rose-Marie Wörner on the website of the German Society for Garden Art and Landscape Culture , accessed on January 4, 2016.
  2. ↑ a b Project on the development of garden monument preservation as a field of activity of freelance landscape architects in the Federal Republic of Germany - A contribution to the professional history of landscape architecture at the Institute for Landscape Architecture at Leibniz University Hannover , accessed on January 4, 2016.
  3. ^ Magdeburg address book for 1939. Part I, p. 253.
  4. ↑ a b c d e F. Schalaster: On the 80th birthday of Rose Wörner. 2007, p. 58.
  5. ↑ a b c d e f P. Engelen, R. Lutum: Rose-Marie Wörner. 2015, p. 239.
  6. ↑ P. Engelen, R. Lutum: Rose-Marie Wörner. 2015, p. 238.
  7. ↑ Information, unless otherwise stated, from P. Engelen, R. Lutum: Rose-Marie Wörner. 2015, p. 239 and the obituary for Rose-Marie Wörner on the website of the German Society for Garden Art and Landscape Culture , accessed on January 4, 2016.
  8. ^ Park architect Rose Wörner has died. In: Rheinische Post . Online edition of March 11, 2015 ( online ).
  9. ↑ a b c The garden architect Rose-Marie Wörner died on wuppertals-gruene-anlagen.de , accessed on January 4, 2016.
  10. ^ The Wuppertal landscape architects Gustav and Rose Wörner on wuppertals-gruene-anlagen.de , accessed on January 4, 2016.
  11. ↑ P. Engelen, R. Lutum: Rose-Marie Wörner. 2015, p. 240.
personal data
SURNAME Woerner, Rose-Marie
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wörner, Rose
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German garden and landscape architect specializing in the preservation of garden monuments
DATE OF BIRTH January 24, 1927
PLACE OF BIRTH Magdeburg
DATE OF DEATH March 9, 2015
Place of death Wuppertal