Ernst Robert Pietsch

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Ernst Robert Pietsch (born September 18, 1850 in Zeisdorf / Lower Silesia , † February 21, 1928 in Sosnowiec ) was a German landscape gardener in Upper Silesia . His handwritten travel diaries became famous at the end of the 1990s .

biography

family

Ernst Robert Pietsch was the eldest son of Henriette Bertha Ruge (1826–1882), daughter of an art gardener in the von Knobelsdorff family in Hirschfeldau (Jelenin). Pietsch was born on the Zeisdorf estate, which had moved from the von Knobelsdorff family to the von Kessel family in 1826 . The parents' marriage was arranged: only two months before the birth , the mother-to-be was married to the son of a grand servant of the noble family. Soon afterwards Johann Gottfried Pietsch advanced from a stately coachman to the estate manager of the von Kessel family at Zöbelwitz Castle .

Pietsch grew up financially secure in the close environment of the von Kessel family and later learned to be an art gardener. In addition to his mother's influence, he may have "not least been inspired by the 60-acre English park, which surrounded the extensive Tudor Palace in Zöbelwitz with its ponds, lawns and groups of trees and which often attracted park lovers to visit".

After the marriage (1882) to Ernestine Pauline Hoffmann (1862–1923), daughter of a Lower Silesian landowner, the couple first lived in Lüben (Lubin), where Pietsch ran a gardening business. From here, the textile manufacturer Heinrich Dietel (1839–1911) brought him to Sosnowiec , where at the age of forty he was given the task of designing and maintaining a landscape park around the manufacturer's property. The Pietsch family lived in close association with the industrialist Dietel's family, with whom they were friends.

Martha Pietsch of the two daughters married the pietistic teacher and cantor Karl Nordheim from Langenau (Czernica), who was related to the deaconess Eva von Thiele-Winckler who worked there . The couple announced the Silesian home already before the Second World War on to the family's youngest daughter succor that the then minister in the Confessing Church , Jobst Begrich had married.

Pietsch's younger daughter Bertha married a Berlin wine wholesaler and went back to Silesia. When she was expelled from Silesia (1946), Pietsch's granddaughter Marie-Luise Hoffmann (1918–2005) saved two handwritten travel notes of her grandfather hidden behind a picture in a pillowcase.

Ernst Robert Pietsch undertook numerous trips through Europe with his wife, the "good traveling companion" as he repeatedly dubbed them, of which only the two reports that the great-great-grandson historian Stefan Wolter first published in 1999/2001 and initially in Poland presented. The fourth generation of Pietsch's descendants also includes the journalist Tilman Steffen, the media artist Chris Ziegler and the writer Claudia Ziegler .

Work on the landscape park in Sosnowiec

Around 1890 Ernst Robert Pietsch was appointed to Sosnowiec, in what was then part of Poland under Russian administration. Here the trained art gardener found an attractive life's work with the textile manufacturer Heinrich Dietel from Wilkau ( Saxony ) . He was responsible for the implementation and maintenance of a large country parks ( Polish Park Dietla w Sosnowiec ), who belonged Dietels to the property and received a distinctive look with its historicizing forms the artificial caves, lakes, hills and ruins. Dietel had started building a spinning mill in 1878. Around 1890 he had a neo-baroque palace built (Polish: Pałac Dietla), which is one of the most valuable architectural monuments of that time in Poland. It rises on the edge of the now almost completely destroyed park, of which only 5.5 hectares remain. In Sosnowiec today it is assumed that Pietsch was buried “in the mausoleum of his patron Heinrich Dietel”.

The historical travel reports

"Again rain and smoky air everywhere", complained Pietsch after returning from his trip to Sweden in 1908: "I couldn't get a taste for the whole local life and goings for a long time". Three things contributed to making life in the rapidly growing industrial city - it had received city rights in 1902 - bearable: the work on the park, "the gracious, insightful treatment" on the part of the Dietel family and "the enjoyment of the next trip". The trips gave suggestions for their own work. Pietsch preferred to go to horticultural facilities, such as the agricultural college in Alnarp (Sweden) or the botanical garden in Berlin Dahlem in the phase of its creation in 1903 and in 1912.

In 2008, the two travel reports, translated and commented on, were available for the first time in a complete edition. The books were reviewed in the Hamburger Abendblatt , the Weser-Kurier and the TAZ , among others . They repeatedly flowed into the scientific literature as a source. The editor writes in the foreword of the complete edition:

“Since they were rediscovered ten years ago, the travelogues themselves have had an eventful history. The report of the “Journey to Sweden and Denmark in 1908” was printed in two editions (…) and published in 2003 as an audio book by the German Central Library for the blind in Leipzig . It was also honored, for example as a literature recommendation from the Baedeker Allianz travel guide to Denmark (2001) or in a letter from the Swedish children's book author Astrid Lindgren , who thanked them for the “interesting book”. The report of the trip to Helgoland was published in 2001 by Hainholz-Verlag in one edition and then processed in excerpts in a feature for NDR -Inforadio. "

literature

  • Ernst Robert Pietsch: Trip to Sweden and Denmark in 1908, ed. by Stefan Wolter, Hainholz-Verlag Göttingen 1999, ISBN 3-932622-21-9
  • Trip to Sweden and Denmark in 1908 , ed. by Stefan Wolter, Hainholz-Verlag 2nd edition, Göttingen 2001, ISBN 3-932622-75-8 .
  • Trip to Helgoland via Berlin and Bremen in 1912 , ed. by Stefan Wolter, Hainholz-Verlag Göttingen 2001, ISBN 3-932622-76-6 .
  • Stefan Wolter (ed.): "What an overwhelming sight is presented to our astonished eyes!" The Pietsch couple on a pleasure trip to the North and Baltic Seas, Projekt-Verlag Halle 2008, ISBN 978-3-86634-459-4 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Stefan Wolter (ed.): What an overwhelming sight is presented to our astonished eyes! The Pietsch couple on a pleasure trip to the Baltic and North Sea 1908/1912, Halle 2008, p. 19 ff.
  2. ↑ Stefan Wolter (ed.): What an overwhelming sight is presented to our astonished eyes! The Pietsch couple on a pleasure trip to the Baltic and North Sea 1908/1912, Halle 2008, p. 52 ff.
  3. ↑ Stefan Wolter (ed.): What an overwhelming sight is presented to our astonished eyes! , Halle 2008, p. 22.
  4. ↑ In the grandfathers footsteps. By ship from Szczecin to Sweden and Denmark. The Pommersche Zeitung, December 22, 2001.
  5. ↑ Tropem przodka sosnowiec.naszemiasto.pl, 2003-04-29. [dostęp 2014-06-05]
  6. ↑ Biography on artur-net.de
  7. ^ Bavarian State Opera Biographies .
  8. ↑ See Jan Przemsza-Zielinski, Sosnowiec zany i nieznany. Leksykon nazw miejscowych od A do Z, Sosnowiec 1997, p. 115 ff
  9. ↑ Park Dietla w Sosnowiec
  10. ↑ Park Dietla w Sosnowiec
  11. ^ Ernst Robert Pietsch: Journey to Sweden and Denmark in 1908, 2nd ed. Göttingen 2001.
  12. ↑ The description of the Johannisthal airfield (1912) also arouses interest today . Subsequently illustrated excerpt from the book The Pietsch couple on a pleasure trip to the Baltic and North Sea 1908/1912 , pp. 171–181.
  13. ^ Frank Pergande: Notes in Thick Pillows , FAZ October 9, 2008
  14. ↑ Peter Groth: “You could not think of anything special. But the way the author meticulously describes the first encounter with flying machines, with lead and council cellars and with the North Sea island is worth reading. In addition, the historian and great-great-grandson provides a clever and informative commentary on travel in a time when tourism hardly played a role in Bremen and Heligoland. " Weser-Kurier, December 15, 2001.
  15. ^ Jörg Sundermeier: Ernst Robert Pietsch's travel memories: Drollig , TAZ, February 9, 2002
  16. ^ Annegret Heitmann: Turisme anno 1908: Ernst Robert Pietschs rejse til Sverige og Danmark. In: Stephan Michael Schröder, Martin Zerlang (ed.): 1908 et snapshot af de cultural relationer mellem Tyskland og Danmark. Hellerup, 2011, pp. 26-61.
  17. ↑ Most recently Jan Rüger: Heligoland: Britain, Germany, and the Struggle for the North Sea. Britain, Germany and the north sea , Oxford 2017, p. 271.
  18. ↑ Cf. Stefan Wolter (ed.): "What an overwhelming sight is presented to our astonished eyes!" , Halle 2008, p. 15 f.
  19. ↑ See catalog of the German Central Library for the Blind (DZB) entry in the audio library (speaker Walter Jäckel)
  20. ↑ A copy from 1999 is in the Kungliga biblioteket - Sveriges nationalbiblioteket from Astrid Lindgren's estate with “Dedication till Astrid Lindgren”.
  21. ↑ See NDR 4 Info, broadcast on January 26, 2002 (Daniela Schönwälder) and interview in 105'5 Spreeradio (Happy Holiday broadcast, December 16, 2001).
personal data
SURNAME Pietsch, Ernst Robert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German landscape gardener in Upper Silesia
DATE OF BIRTH September 18, 1850
PLACE OF BIRTH Zeisdorf , Lower Silesia
DATE OF DEATH February 21, 1928
Place of death Sosnowiec