Building hardware paperback

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Building hardware paperback

description Door, window and furniture fittings manual
publishing company Publishing house Wohlfarth GmbH
First edition 1952 (issue 1.1953)
Frequency of publication yearly
Editor-in-chief 1991: Uwe Hennig MA
executive Director most recently Frank Wohlfarth
ISSN (print)

The Baubeschlag paperback recorded one of its subtitle "a manual of daily practice for architects , building technicians , locksmiths , carpenters and building hardware dealer " and later for "[...] planners, craftsmen , authorities , industry and trade as well as students and trainees " . The by a working group of building hardware professionals edited, published annually periodical appeared to door, window and furniture fittings initially appeared temporarily in parallel with the trade magazine Baubeschlag-magazin from 1952 Paperback with output 1.1953 in Duisburg , initially in the publishing trade GmbH , after the renaming to Mercator-Verlag and Gert Wohlfahrt GmbH, each under the roof of today's publishing house Wohlfahrt until the 59th edition in 2011.

content

In the foreword to the fifth edition from 1957, the editor emphasized the greater focus on practice "in addition to the comprehensive and clearly structured presentation of essential window and door types with associated hardware sets and the numerous articles that fundamentally deal with individual issues of hardware and hardware". In addition, the Bauschlag-Taschenbuch wanted to provide an overview of the latest developments in the field.

Besides sketchy construction and detail drawings, some with figure legends , contained, for example, been issuing some 1,957 multi-colored, mostly full-page advertisement , which some still with the artist's signature provided advertising graphics were designed. In the 1950s, for example, advertising examples from companies such as Zeiss Ikon , BKS , Wilh were inserted on special paper . Abendroth , Dörken & Mankel KG with their door closer brands DORMA , WILKA , HEWI or effeff (with the artist's signature G in the horizontal oval). In addition, there were advertisements for thematically related specialist journals.

Individual evidence

  1. a b c d Compare the information under the GND number of the German National Library
  2. a b Uwe Hennig MA (Red.): Inside title of the 39th, completely revised edition, Gert Wohlfahrt GmbH, Verlag Fachtechnik + Mercator-Verlag, 1991, ISBN 3-87463-165-6
  3. a b c Frank Wohlfarth: Company ( Memento from July 1, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) on the Wohlfarth.de page
  4. a b The editor: Foreword , 1957 edition