Harry Maasz

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Harry Maasz, city gardener in Lübeck
Harry Maasz's former home in (Scharbeutz-) Klingberg, Seestrasse 31
In the III. On the 1st floor there was his "Atelier for garden design"

Harry Maasz (actually Maaß) (born January 5, 1880 in Cloppenburg , † August 24, 1946 in Lübeck ) was a German horticultural architect and horticultural writer.

Life

After attending grammar school in Bremen , Maasz completed a horticultural apprenticeship in Stadthagen in 1897 and an internship in Bremen in 1900. From 1901 he studied at the Royal Gardening College at the Wildlife Park near Potsdam . From 1903 he worked under the horticultural director Karl Koopmann in the design of the parks in Heilstätten Beelitz . In 1904 he worked for the city administration in Magdeburg and in 1905 for the city administration in Kiel . The forest nursery there has been redesigned under his direction. From 1906 he worked as a horticultural architect , technical and artistic director, at Berg & Schwedt in Stuttgart . In 1908 he passed the exam as a state certified gardener . From 1909 he was an artistic employee of the workshops for garden design of Schnackenburg & Siebolt in Hamburg . As the successor of the head from the garden Office of the Free and Hanseatic City of Lübeck , Erwin Barth , he was appointed the 1912th After leaving on October 1, 1922, he founded his own "Atelier for garden design" in III. On the first floor of Breiten Straße 85-87 in Lübeck, which was destroyed in 1942 , there was an exhibition in 1934 and a joint studio was established with Guillermo Narberhaus in Barcelona .

Maasz set himself a permanent monument with his own house, which he had built in the municipality of Klingberg on Lake Pönitzer See. According to the plans of his architect friend Wilhelm Bräck , a new building was created here from 1926 , but the gardens have not been preserved.

Maasz countered the then widespread ideal of the English landscape garden with his vision of the “Volkspark of the future”, with which he wanted to take into account the social problems of the turn of the century. The park should serve the health of the bourgeoisie and serve recreation. From an aesthetic point of view, he included the surrounding landscape in the design of his gardens whenever possible. With his vision of the Volkspark of the future, Maasz understood a combination of public green spaces, social and collection rooms, swimming and gymnastics facilities and arbor colonies. Of these u. a. Park areas with stone fruit trees with high social standards exist, which in the case of the Krempelsdorf Volkspark could be started but not completed.

On the outskirts of Lübeck (south of the street An der Dornbreite ), Maasz began building the Krempelsdorfer Volkspark in 1918 on an area of ​​36 hectares. After the costs had tripled within a very short time as part of the economic development of those years, the work was stopped in 1920.

During the First World War , Maasz created Lübeck's Ehrenfriedhof, which was separated from the Burgtorfriedhof by the street Sandberg and expanded in 1917 . Due to the unpredictable end of the war, a further expansion of the cemetery on the other side of Israelsdorfer (today Travemünder) Allee was considered, but no longer realized. Maasz died in 1946 and was the last person to be buried in the cemetery of honor.

Awards

  • In 1907 Maasz received a silver medal from the International Art and Horticultural Exhibition in Mannheim .
  • In 1914 he received a gold medal from the horticultural exhibitions in Altona and Lübeck.

Labor discount

  • Schleswig-Holstein Archive for Architecture and Civil Engineering (AAI) in Schleswig

Exhibitions

Work (incomplete)

Gardens and parks

His grave in the Lübeck cemetery of honor
War memorial First World War in Mölln

Fonts

  • Between the road fence and the building line . Trowitzsch & Sohn, Frankfurt (Oder) 1910.
  • The German Volkspark of the future. Arbor colonies and green space . Trowitsch, Frankfurt (Oder) 1913.
  • How do I build and plant my garden . Bruckmann, Munich 1919
  • Small and large gardens. From the workshop of a great garden designer . Trowitsch, Frankfurt (Oder) 1926.
  • The garden - your doctor. Away with the garden worries . Frankfurt (Oder) 1927.
  • The planting of grave sites. Which flowers, shrubs and trees are recommended? Trowitsch, Frankfurt (Oder) 1934.
  • Big worries about the green landscape . Westphal, Wolfshagen-Scharbeutz 1936.
  • Water basin for small and large gardens . Trowitsch, Frankfurt (Oder) 1937.

literature

  • N / A : Harry Maasz . (Exhibition catalog). Martini, Kiel 1972.
  • Renate Kastorff-Viehmann: Harry Maasz. Garden architect, garden writer and garden poet . Klartext-Verlag, Essen 1998, ISBN 3-884-74676-6 .
  • Jörn Wagner: Technology and construction as an integral part of the design and implementation of gardens and urban open spaces, illustrated using typical examples from the work of Harry Maasz . Dissertation, Technical University Berlin 2003.
  • Imke Wollweber: Garden art from the German Empire to National Socialism using the example of the garden architect Harry Maasz . Osnabrück 1990, ISBN 3-925716-88-2 . (= Series of publications by the Department of Land Care at the Osnabrück University of Applied Sciences , 9th) (also a diploma thesis from the Osnabrück University of Applied Sciences).
  • Maass, Harry. In: Biographical Lexicon for Schleswig-Holstein and Lübeck , Volume 8.
  • Herbert Gerisch Foundation, Martin Henatsch (Ed.): Gerisch Sculpture Park - Art in the outside space - Harry Maasz Garden - Villa Wachholtz . Neumünster 2007:
    • Maren Eichhorn: Harry Maasz: Life and Work . Pp. 90-109.
    • Margita M. Meyer: The beautiful and functional garden: Harry Maasz's residential gardens and the country house garden for the Wachholtz publishing family in Neumünster . Pp. 56-89.

Web links

Commons : Harry Maasz  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ so the birth certificate and official documents. In his drafts and books he used the spelling "MAASZ", which he later adopted as "Maasz".
  2. ↑ a b c d Garden Inspector Harry Maasz. In: Von Lübeck's Towers , Volume 32, No. 21, Issue of October 21, 1922, pp. 81–84.
  3. ↑ Stadtgärtner, Harry Maasz, Lübeck. In: Von Lübeck's Towers , Volume 22, No. 14, Edition April 6, 1912.
  4. ↑ Harry Maasz. Garden board of the State Office for Monument Preservation Schleswig-Holstein (PDF; 247 kB)
  5. ^ Elke P. Brandenburg: St. Lorenz. Chronicle of the suburbs in front of the Holsten Gate. Lübeck 2001. (= small booklets on city history, 17th)
  6. ↑ Architectural Review 1912 ( digitized version )
  7. ↑ The Ehrenhain and the Ratekau Church. In: Vaterstädtische Blätter , year 1921/22, number 25, edition of September 10, 1922, pp. 97–98.
  8. ↑ Kalkhorst Castle Park , accessed on April 3, 2014
  9. ↑ See Horst G. Lange: The Gender Cemetery in Lunden - The redesign by Harry Maaß 1937 to 1939 and the reconstruction of the garden monument preservation. In: Monument. Journal for Monument Preservation in Schleswig-Holstein. 16/2009, ISSN  0946-4549 , pp. 25-35.
personal data
SURNAME Maasz, Harry
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German horticultural architect and horticultural writer
DATE OF BIRTH January 5, 1880
PLACE OF BIRTH Cloppenburg
DATE OF DEATH August 24, 1946
Place of death Lübeck