Hermann Schüttauf

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Hermann Schüttauf (born December 16, 1890 in Niederplanitz near Zwickau , † February 25, 1967 in Dresden ) was a German garden and landscape architect.

life and work

education

From 1908 to 1911 he completed horticultural training in Schwerin , Dresden and Leipzig . He then attended the horticultural school in Dresden- Laubegast , where he achieved such good results that in 1914 he was awarded the “Friedrich August travel grant” from the Saxon Society for Botany and Horticulture “Flora” . This enabled him to undertake a study trip to the most important sites of garden art in France and England. In the meantime he worked in Antwerp , Berlin and Lage (Lippe) as a horticultural technician.

Functions

From 1920 to 1929 Hermann Schüttauf worked as head of the garden inspection of the municipal garden administration in Dresden and then as director of the state garden administration of the state of Saxony. In this role he was responsible for the Great Garden , the Brühlsche Terrasse and the garden at the Japanese Palace in Dresden as well as the former court gardens, the palace garden in Pillnitz and the baroque garden in Großsedlitz , where he successfully carried out reconstruction work in the old hedge quarters in 1930 started. He also looked after the grounds of the Albrechtsburg Castle in Meißen , the Altzella monastery garden near Nossen and was an adviser for the spa facilities of the state spa in Bad Elster .

In addition, he worked on the design of the anniversary horticultural exhibition in 1926 (on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of "Flora") and the 1936 Reichsgartenschau in Dresden. In Saxon Switzerland , Schüttauf ran an experimental heap garden, which was destroyed in 1945. All related documents were also destroyed. It was about erosion restoration, which was supposed to counteract the falling of masses of soil and stone.

From 1940 to 1945 he took part in the Second World War. After the war he returned as director of the Saxon State Garden Administration. Because of his membership in the NSDAP since 1933, he was fired in 1949. He was one of the few garden architects who had to accept cuts in their professional career because of membership in the NSDAP.

However, he continued to work as a freelance consultant and planner for the preservation of historic gardens, and his efforts were also successful. Among other things, he was on the road in what is now Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt and Thuringia on behalf of the Institute for Monument Preservation . He worked closely with the monument conservator Hans Nadler , who was of extraordinary importance for his work at this time.

Apparently, Schütt did not shy away from arguments with specialist colleagues. So there was a controversy with Willy Kurth , the garden director of Sanssouci Palace . Schüttauf criticized Kurth in 1955: “I am the last one who wants to take a pearl out of his crown for Sanssouci from our good Prof. Kurth, but none of us keep up with what he is currently doing in the gardening area in Sanssouci Park ... ". Kurth had made additions to the Sanssouci Park, which came under the crossfire of criticism from his professional colleagues. Schüttauf was not the only one who had taken a standpoint contrary to Kurth.

Schüttauf had a major influence on the preservation of garden monuments in the GDR. In general, he was one of the first to make initial efforts to establish this subject in this regard. The term “garden monument preservation” did not exist at the time, so that up until then there was talk of “preservation and maintenance of historical parks and gardens”.

Gardens

The palace gardens in Lichtenwalde , whose reconstruction he directed from 1953 to 1956, Hartenfels Palace in Torgau , the spa facilities in Bad Elster , Bad Brambach and the parks in Bad Muskau , for example, bear witness to his creative and monument preservation activities in Saxony . Together with the government building officer Heinrich Sulze , he played a significant role in the reconstruction of the Mosigkau palace garden , which was largely destroyed by the Second World War, which ended in 1945.

In view of the limited financial possibilities, the Muskauer Park also achieved a remarkable condition in a relatively short time, which received recognition. He also worked in the parks of Thallwitz , Tiefenau (near Wülknitz ), and Branitz (Cottbus). But he also left his traces in Thuringia , for example in the grounds of Weimar in particular in the park on the Ilm not far from the Goethesches Gartenhaus, the Belvedere Garden and the Tiefurt Palace Park , the garden at the Kirms-Krackow-Haus , which was designed according to his designs, and at the gardens of the Dornburg palaces . Maybe the book by Wolfgang Huschke about the history of the park in Weimar helped him . In Weimar he also held his so-called "park seminars", which have become known, in the early 1960s. It is certainly no coincidence that Schüttauf was entrusted with the expert opinion for the Weimar parks in 1957. He thus continued the restoration and maintenance of the Weimar parks that had already begun during the reign of Maria Pawlowna under the garden artist Eduard Petzold .

In today's travel guides u. a. to Weimar there are detailed descriptions of the parks mentioned here, their historical references and their function in today's urban development. The fact that these had to be restored in this way, however, is shown less often, so that Petzold and Schüttauf's names, like that of so many who did their best for the reconstruction and redesign of Weimar, do not appear there often.

Honors

Memorial stone on the Schüttauf-Höhe ( ) in the mountain park of Bad MuskauWorld icon

The city administration of Bad Muskau honored Schüttauf on the occasion of a symposium on the 150th anniversary of the Muskau Landscape Park from September 22 to 24, 1965 for his many years of commitment to the maintenance, care and use of the Muskau Park by granting him honorary citizenship . At the same time, the monument conservator Hans Nadler received this honor. After Schüttauf's death, on November 4, 1967, by resolution of the City Council of Bad Muskau, a height of the mountain park was named "Schüttauf-Höhe". A memorial stone commemorates the garden director and Bad Muskau honorary citizen .

death

In a traffic accident, Hermann Schüttauf had a fatal accident on February 25, 1967 in Dresden. The burial took place in the cemetery of his birthplace Niederplanitz .

Fonts

  • Maintenance of historical parks. Deutscher Kulturbund, Commission for Nature and Homeland of the Presidential Council, Central Expert Committee on Landscape Design, Nature Conservation and Dendrology, 1963
  • Parks and gardens in the GDR ( city ​​books of art history ). Leipzig 1969 (2nd edition 1973)

literature

  • Christa Bretschneider: Hermann Schüttauf, his work to preserve the historic gardens in the former GDR. In: Sächsische Schlösserverwaltung (Hrsg.): Yearbook of the state palaces, castles and gardens in Saxony. Volume 5, Dresden 1997, pp. 164-170.
  • Harri Günther: Hermann Schüttauf to commemorate his 100th birthday. In: landscape architecture. Issue 20/1990, pp. 122-123.
  • Harri Günther: Hermann Schüttauf to commemorate his 100th birthday. In: Contributions to Wood Science 1991, pp. 108–111.
  • Georg Häusler: Personalities who made history - Hermann Schüttauf (1890–1967). In: Muskauer Anzeiger. Issue 147/2002, p. 13.
  • Annette Seemann : Weimar: A travel companion. Insel-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main / Leipzig 2004. ISBN 3-458-34766-6 .
  • Wolfgang Huschke. The history of the park in Weimar. Weimar 1951.
  • Peter Fibich, Joachim Wolschke-Bulmahn: Impulses for the preservation of garden monuments . In: Stadt + Grün . June 2003, p. 15 ( stadtundgruen.de [PDF; 5.5 MB ] Registration for download required).

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Andreas Dix: After the end of the "thousand years": Landscape planning in the Soviet occupation zone and early GDR . In: Joachim Radkau; Frank Uekötter (Ed.): Nature conservation and National Socialism . Campus Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2003, ISBN 3-593-37354-8 , pp. 336 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
  2. ↑ Andreas Bänder: Memorial event on the death of Prof. Dr. Hans Nadler: Commemorative remarks by the Mayor of Bad Muskau . In: Muskauer Anzeiger . No. 186 , February 20, 2006, p. 7 ( badmuskau.de [PDF; 1.3 MB ]).
  3. ↑ Huschke's book ends before Schüttauf began working in the Ilmpark.

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personal data
SURNAME Schüttauf, Hermann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German horticultural and landscape architect
DATE OF BIRTH December 16, 1890
PLACE OF BIRTH Niederplanitz near Zwickau
DATE OF DEATH February 25, 1967
Place of death Dresden