German Society for Garden Art and Landscape Culture

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The German Society for Garden Art and Landscape Culture e. V. (DGGL) is a non-profit association in Germany, active in all German federal states and with a federal office in Berlin. The association is a professional and party politically neutral federal association and is open to all who feel addressed by its goals and activities and want to get involved.

history

The DGGL or the predecessor organization of the German Society for Garden Art and Landscape Culture was founded on May 10, 1887 in Dresden by 32 members as the Association of German Garden Artists (VdG) , initiated by Max Bertram , Johann Carl Friedrich Bouché , Carl Hampel . Their main concern was the preservation of the artistic and landscape values. Founding members were u. a. from the famous gardener dynasty Sckell coming Julius Sckell and Armin Sckell , and Willi Wendt . In 1904 there were controversial discussions about the goals and future direction of the association. Garden architects around Fritz Encke , Carl Heicke and Julius Trip left the association and founded the German Society for Garden Art (DGfG) in 1906. The remaining members continued to run the association under the old name until the two associations merged in 1910. The first chairman was Gustav Friedrich Krause, Royal Saxon Court Garden Director. A name extension to "German Society for Garden Art and Landscape Management (DGGL)" took place in 1948. In 1955 the association was dissolved, d. H. the DGfG and the re-establishment as the "German Society for Garden Art and Landscape Culture", DGGL for short. Similar activities took place in the GDR from 1978 onwards in the Central Technical Committee "Dendrology and Garden Architecture" of the Kulturbund. On the occasion of its 125th anniversary in 2012, the DGGL comprehensively documented the history of the association on the occasion of a traveling exhibition.

Members

Members of the DGGL are predominantly experts in public administration, landscape architects, owners and employees of horticultural and landscaping companies and of producing horticultural companies, teachers and students at universities or technical colleges, but also many interested laypeople.

goals and tasks

Founding goals

Originally, the Association of German Garden Culture was concerned with representing the professional interests of “garden artists”, which today corresponds to garden designers, garden planners and landscape architects. On the agenda of the predecessor organization of the DGGL was also the promotion of garden art, the establishment of a university education for garden artists. From the beginning, the association was also a discussion forum for the further development of garden art.

Tasks today

Today the DGGL is generally committed to garden art and landscape culture in public and private spaces. Preserving and developing modern parks and gardens, historical facilities, cultural and natural landscapes, investigating new urban spaces and forms of land use and their effects on open space - these are the main concerns of the German Society for Garden Art and Landscape Culture (DGGL) today. This also includes the promotion of contemporary garden and landscape architecture.

activities

The DGGL organizes lectures and discussion events, issues opinions on specific landscape planning programs and projects, and organizes campaigns on green policy. The association sees itself as a forum for the exchange of information, discussion and training. Events of the regional associations and working groups take place throughout Germany: lectures and discussions, seminars and congresses, excursions and study trips. The DGGL is subdivided into 17 independent regional associations with a total of approx. 2000 members. The individual associations offer their members u. a. Further education, excursions and trips to interesting gardens and parks.

Working groups

The historical gardens working group was founded in Bavaria in 1963 and tries to provide impetus for the preservation of garden monuments. The initiators were the garden architect Gerda Gollwitzer and the Bavarian state garden director Christian Bauer. One focus of this working group is the clarification of the concept of monument for historical gardens and cultural landscapes. In addition, the working group develops standards for the maintenance and care of historical gardens and parks.

The Young Landscape Architects Working Group goes back to the “Young Design Working Group” founded in 1939. He takes care of the next generation of professionals, writes a. a. regularly organizes small competitions, and organizes workshop visits for trainees and students.

The Landscape Culture Working Group designs conferences and excursions on its general topic “Landscape as a cultural heritage” and develops publications and statements on this topic.

Under the motto "Homo ludens - one city for all", the working group Spielraum takes care of the planning, provision and use of open spaces for young and old in cities and communities. Standards and funding programs for age-appropriate planning of open spaces are the primary goals of the members of this working group.

Training

The DGGL has set up a fund to promote young professionals. Theses at universities and technical colleges as well as projects are funded from it. The DGGL funding competition "Ulrich-Wolf", which has been advertised every two years since 1971, is aimed at young landscape architects. With the ideas competition, the DGGL endeavors to promote students and young professionals in the field of landscape architecture up to the age of 35. The first competition, which took place in the Westpark Essen in 1971, was linked to the Federal Garden Show in Essen. The competition is named after Ulrich Wolf (1902–1967). He was a trained gardener, worked, among other things, in Moscow as a green planner, was a university lecturer in Weihenstephan from 1946 to 1954 and then head of the garden, cemetery and forestry office of the city of Düsseldorf.

DGGL culture award

Since 2001, the German Society for Garden Art and Landscape Culture has been awarding a culture prize for outstanding achievements in the field of garden art and landscape culture. It honors the achievements of people and institutions who have made an outstanding contribution to the promotion of garden art and landscape culture. With its culture award, the DGGL wants to stimulate the public discussion on garden art and landscape culture. The culture prize is awarded annually by the President of the DGGL during a ceremony. The winners receive a golden linden leaf and a certificate.

Publications

The first publication of the association was in 1890 the "Zeitschrift für bildende Gartenkunst", a monthly magazine of the "Verein der Gartenkünstler". In 1899 it was renamed to Garden Art and in 1948 to “Garden + Landscape”. The magazine reports on plans and projects, from garden design to environmental planning. In 1956 the publisher Georg DW Callwey, Munich took over the publication of the magazine, where it is still published today. The DGGL publishes a yearbook every year, the 7th edition of the DGGL travel guide to more than 1,500 private and public parks in Germany was published in 2011.

DGGL Academy

For its 125th anniversary in 2012, the association founded the DGGL Academy, located in Wiesbaden-Biebrich Castle in Hesse. The park around the palace is the last work of the garden designer Friedrich Ludwig von Sckell (1750–1823). The academy sees itself as an educational center for the areas of interest of garden culture, green and open space planning, as well as horticulture. The academy mainly deals with topics that are dedicated to garden art, landscape architecture and landscape planning, whereby the focus is on interdisciplinary cooperation.

Library of the German Horticulture

The German Horticultural Library is the most extensive collection point for garden literature in the German-speaking area. The origin of this extensive book collection goes back to the "Association for the promotion of horticulture", which was founded in 1822 and which is u. a. had made the task of building a club library. The first catalog with 216 titles was published in 1826. In 1936 the book holdings of this association, today the Deutsche Gartenbau-Gesellschaft 1822 (DGG), were merged with the book collection of the DGGL or its predecessor organization and the library of the Reich Association of German Horticulture to form the "Library of German Horticulture". The library now has 56,000 volumes and 1,700 journal titles that are cataloged online. Many titles can only be found here in Germany. The German Garden Library has been looked after by the University Library of the Technical University of Berlin since 1965 . Use of the library is free of charge for members of the DGGL.

literature

  • Gert Gröning, Joachim Wolschke-Bulmahn , DGGL (ed.): German Society for Garden Art and Landscape Care e. V. 1887-1987. A look back at 100 years of the DGGL. Boskett, Berlin 1987. (= series of publications by the German Society for Garden Art and Landscape Management , Volume 10.)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 125 years DGGL, accessed on November 13, 2014 ( Memento from November 28, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ↑ regional associations. DGGL, accessed November 13, 2014 .
  3. ^ Goldenes Lindenblatt / Kulturpreis, accessed on November 14, 2014
  4. ^ The publications of the DGGL, accessed on November 13, 2014
  5. ↑ Homepage of the Academy, accessed on November 14, 2014
  6. ^ German Horticultural Library. Retrieved September 1, 2019 .