Erwin Barth

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Erwin Barth in 1911
Memorial plaque with Barth's relief, Brixplatz in Berlin-Westend
Memorial plaque , Mierendorffplatz in Berlin-Charlottenburg
Erwin Barth's grave in the Wilmersdorfer Waldfriedhof in Stahnsdorf

Erwin Barth (born November 28, 1880 in Lübeck , † July 10, 1933 in Berlin ; full name Erwin Albert Barth ) was a German horticultural architect and university professor . He was garden director of Charlottenburg , honorary professor at the Technical University Berlin and professor at the Agricultural University Berlin .

Life

After his training as a garden architect, Erwin Barth became one of the most important representatives of the modern Volkspark movement in the German Empire . The creation of green urban spaces for the workforce, which should be neat and functional, were the focus of his work.

From 1908 to 1911, Barth was the successor of Metaphius Theodor August Langenbuch city ​​gardener in Lübeck . There he designed a. a. some cemeteries and the still preserved Marli Park , the Buniamshof and the school garden . From 1912 to 1926, interrupted by the First World War , Barth worked as garden director of Charlottenburg. Almost all public parks and squares were designed by him there, each of his parks having its own character that is adapted to the landscape. In 1926 he was appointed City Garden Director of Greater Berlin and held this office until 1929.

Barth worked as a lecturer at the Technical University of Berlin from 1921 and was made an honorary professor in 1927 . The high point of his career was in 1929 when he was appointed the first German professor of garden design at the Agricultural University in Berlin.

As a consequence of his deteriorating health - Barth went blind from cataract and glaucoma - and the National Socialist seizure of power , he chose suicide on July 10, 1933 .

Erwin Barth was buried in the Wilmersdorfer Waldfriedhof Stahnsdorf , which was created based on his designs from 1920. In 1980, on the occasion of his 100th birthday, the grave was recognized as an honorary grave of the city of Berlin . On the occasion of his 125th birthday on November 28, 2005, the area in front of the Lietzenseepark he designed on Berlin's Kaiserdamm between Witzlebenstrasse and Wundtstrasse was named after him.

Erwin Barth's drawing estate is preserved in the Architecture Museum of the Technical University of Berlin .

Barth parks and facilities (selection)

Several of Barth's works are listed ( D ).

In Lübeck and the surrounding area

In Hamburg

  • 1913–1914: Villa Max Puls house garden, Bondenwald 56, Hamburg-Niendorf , ( D )

In Berlin and the surrounding area

In Dresden

literature

  • Dietmar Land, Jürgen Wenzel (ed.): Home, nature and cosmopolitan city. Life and work of the garden architect Erwin Barth . Verlag Koehler & Amelang, 2005, ISBN 3-7338-0338-8 .
  • Alken Bruns, Karl Wachholtz (Ed.): Lübeck CVs. Verlag Neumünster, 1993, p. 35 f.
  • Nordelbingen , Volume 50, Heide in Holstein 1981, p. 91 ff.
  • University library of the Technical University of Berlin (ed.): Gardens - Parks - Friedhöfe . Exhibition catalog, Berlin 1980.
  • Dietmar Land: Between home and modernity. The Lübeck years of the garden architect Erwin Barth (1880–1933). In: Zeitschrift für Lübeckische Geschichte und Altertumskunde , Volume 89 (2009), pp. 251–274.

Web links

Commons : Erwin Barth  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Information on Barth's suicide by his granddaughter
  2. ↑ Erwin-Barth-Platz at berlin.de
  3. ↑ see list of cultural monuments in Lübeck-St. Lorenz
  4. ↑ Hanseatic City of Lübeck: Urban Development: Dragerpark. In: stadtentwicklung.luebeck.de. Retrieved February 15, 2018 .
  5. ^ Landsitz Lindenhof on Historic Gardens Schleswig-Holstein , accessed on February 15, 2015
  6. ↑ https://www.hamburg.de/bkm/denkmalschutzamt/177526/bondenwald-56/
  7. ↑ https://www.dggl.org/uploads/tx_dgglkalender/gartenseminar_2019_einladen.pdf
  8. ↑ Entry in the Berlin State Monument List
  9. ↑ Entry in the Berlin State Monument List
  10. ↑ Entry in the Berlin State Monument List
  11. ↑ Entry in the Berlin State Monument List
  12. ↑ Entry in the Berlin State Monument List
  13. ↑ Landhausgarten Dr. Fraenkel. In: berlin.de. Retrieved February 15, 2018 .
  14. ↑ Entry in the Berlin State Monument List
  15. ↑ Entry in the Berlin State Monument List
  16. ↑ Entry in the Berlin State Monument List
  17. ^ Draft in the Architecture Museum of the Technical University of Berlin ( ill. , Deutsche Fotothek )
personal data
SURNAME Barth, Erwin
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Barth, Erwin Albert (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German garden architect and university lecturer
DATE OF BIRTH November 28, 1880
PLACE OF BIRTH Lübeck
DATE OF DEATH July 10, 1933
Place of death Berlin