Aloys Bernatzky

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Aloys Bernatzky (born April 1, 1910 in Leobschütz , Province of Silesia ; † January 27, 1992 in Frankfurt am Main ) was a German garden and landscape architect , biologist , conservationist and town planner and author of specialist gardening books and regional publications on the County of Glatz .

Life

Aloys Bernatzky attended a humanistic grammar school in his hometown until 1929 . In 1930 he moved to Wünschelburg in the district of Glatz . He first studied philosophy and theology at the University of Breslau and then until 1938 garden architecture and landscape management as well as urban and structural engineering at the Technical University of Berlin . Lectures by Heinrich Wiepking-Jürgensmann had a decisive influence on his later work.

At the end of the Second World War he stayed in the Upper Silesian town of Katscher , from where he was expelled in 1945 . After working in Frankfurt a. M. found a job in the gardening department, which he held until 1972, and in the following years he was significantly involved in the legal development of landscape maintenance. In 1950 he wrote for the working group for spatial research at the Institute for spatial research in Bonn the "draft for principles for a legal order of landscape maintenance", in which the landscape and land maintenance were defined as public tasks.

In his book From the Medieval City Fortifications to the Wall Green Areas of Today , published in 1960, he differentiated four periods of demolition of bastionary fortification systems and ramparts based on example cities , showed their importance for city plans, transport facilities and city extensions and presented the urban climatic importance of green areas.

He became known through a large number of gardening books for practice, some of which have also been translated into other languages. The volume Baum und Mensch , published together with the arborist Michael Maurer in 1973 , reports on experiences in tree surgery with natural monuments such as the Femeiche , the King Ludwig Oak or the Twelve Apostle Linden .

In its 48/1981 edition, Spiegel referred to him as the “ Nestor of German garden architects”.

Another journalistic focus was his publications on regional studies of the County of Glatz .

His activities at the Frankfurt Garden Authority and in the Wiesbaden / Darmstadt administrative region were honored with the silver medal of honor from the Hessian Ministry of the Environment . At the suggestion of the University of Bonn , he received the Alexander von Humboldt Medal in silver, awarded by the Alfred Toepfer Foundation FVS , in 1984 . Bernatzky was a member of the German Academy for Urban Development and Regional Planning .

Publications (selection)

  • 1957: The conversion of bastionary fortifications in German cities into green spaces. Frankfurt / Main 1957
  • 1960: From the medieval city fortifications to today's green ramparts. Patzer, Berlin / Hanover / Sarstedt 1960
  • 1962: gardens for us. Your layout and design. 5th edition. Bertelsmann Lesering, Gütersloh 1963
  • 1967: Practical garden calendar. A guide for the whole year. Bertelsmann, Gütersloh 1962
  • 1970: A garden is created overnight. Bertelsmann Ratgeberverlag, Gütersloh 1970
  • 1972: Green planning in building areas. Deutscher Fachschriften-Verlag, Wiesbaden 1972. (Photos: A. Bernatzky; Michael Maurer)
  • 1973: Tree and Man. Kramer, Frankfurt (am Main) 1973, ISBN 3-7829-1045-1 . (2nd edition: 1976)
  • 1975: Our garden, newly laid out. Humboldt-Taschenbuchverlag, Munich 1975, ISBN 3-581-66254-X
  • 1979: Tree surgery, tree care. Thalacker, Braunschweig 1979. (5th edition: 1988, ISBN 3-87815-012-1 )
  • 1984: The gardening guide. Gondrom, Bayreuth 1984, ISBN 3-8112-0409-2
  • 1988: living with trees. Deutscher Fachschriften-Verlag Braun, Wiesbaden 1988, ISBN 3-8078-8095-X
Regional writings
  • 1984: Lexicon of the County of Glatz. With short biographies of famous Grafschafter by Nina Hötzel-Strauch. (= Glatzer Heimatbücher. Vol. 8). Marx, Leimen / Heidelberg 1984
  • 1988: Regional studies of the County of Glatz. (= Glatzer homeland books. Vol. 9). Marx, Leimen / Heidelberg 1988

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Katscher - Kr. Leobschütz / Silesia, list of the residents expelled at the end of WWII. - Websites: Hubert Woelky, accessed January 25, 2013.
  2. ↑ Conversation with Mrs. Bernatzky - website of the Dreikönigsgemeinde Frankfurt a. M., accessed January 26, 2013.
  3. ^ Heinrich Mäding, Wendelin Strubelt (ed.): From the Third Reich to the Federal Republic. Contributions to a conference on the history of spatial research and spatial planning on June 12 and 13, 2008 in Leipzig. Academy for Spatial Research and Regional Planning, Hannover 2009, ISBN 978-3-88838-346-5 , p. 136 ( digitized version ), pdf, accessed on January 26, 2013.
  4. ↑ Review: Reinhart Zschocke: Aloys Bernatzky, From the medieval city fortifications to the green spaces of today. In: Geography. Volume 19, 1965, Issue 3, p. 254 ( JSTOR Stable URL ), accessed January 26, 2013.
  5. ↑ In the year 2000 no more street trees: How town hall politicians destroy the inner city green . In: Der Spiegel 48/1981, November 23, 1981, accessed on January 26, 2013.
  6. ↑ Der Naturarzt ( Memento from February 10, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) , 11, 1986, p. 22
personal data
SURNAME Bernatzky, Aloys
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German garden and landscape architect, biologist, nature conservationist and town planner as well as author of regional studies about the County of Glatz
DATE OF BIRTH April 1, 1910
PLACE OF BIRTH Leobschütz , Province of Silesia
DATE OF DEATH January 27, 1992
Place of death Frankfurt a. M.