Gustav Bardey

Gustav Friedrich Heinrich Bardey (born April 7, 1826 in Muchow ; † April 20, 1905 in Bad Stuer ) was a German gardener, spa director and pioneer of tourism in southern Mecklenburg.

Life

Kurhaus Bad Stuer

Villa Bardey in Bad Stuer

Gustav Bardey was a younger son of the pastor Christian Wilhelm Bardey (1776–1843) from his second marriage to Sophie (Elisabeth Catharina Dorothea), geb. from Kossel. One older and two younger brothers are known by name, including the mathematician and teacher Ernst Bardey (1828–1897).

After an apprenticeship as a gardener, Bardey first worked in Rummelsburg near Berlin. He returned to Mecklenburg in 1862 to take over the water sanatorium (Bad) Stuer, which was increasingly neglected by his predecessor Caesar Wilhelm Stuhlmann , as a leaseholder and manager . In 1877 he bought the water sanatorium from the Flotow and led it to bloom. In the years 1870 to 1880, Bardey had the area completely replanted with beech and oak. Promenade and hiking trails with a total length of 16 km were laid out, which were maintained during the year-round spa operation and cleared of snow in winter. In the period that followed, several of the villas that still exist today were built in the romanticizing taste of the late 19th century.

Gustav Bardey laid the foundation for tourism on the Plauer See (Mecklenburg) with his successful work . The city fathers of Plau recognized this in 1887 with the award of honorary citizenship. Up to 120 spa guests were accepted at prices between 6 and 10 marks per day. The most famous spa guest was Fritz Reuter , who took a cure in Stuer in 1847/48 and 1868, after having stayed in the Laubbach cold water sanatorium near Koblenz for a cure in the meantime (including in 1865). In 1895 Gustav Bardey sold to the Berlin dentist and hydropathist Dr. chir. Wilhelm Süersen (1827-1919). In the immediate vicinity he had a villa built as a retreat. In 1904 the son, who later became (since 1915) the medical officer Dr. Hans Bardey (1865–1940), who had been in charge of medical care since 1892, the sanatorium. During the First World War , the spa business came to a standstill and an officer's prisoner of war camp was set up here. After the mental institution had passed into other hands, Hans Bardey acquired the institution again in 1932. After his death it was continued as a pension by his widow until 1943.

literature

• Ernst Georg Brüning: The history of the hydropathic institutions in Mecklenburg. Med. Diss. Rostock 1949
• Hubertus Averbeck: "From the cold water cure to physical therapy." Considerations on people and at the time of the most important developments in the 19th century . EH Verlag, Bremen 2012. ISBN 978-3-86741-782-2 . [u. a. Pp. 238, 623f, 626].

Web links

• Literature about Gustav Bardey in the Landesbibliographie MV