Hugo Prejawa

Hugo Prejawa (born June 24, 1854 in Dwarischken ; † October 26, 1926 in Friedeberg ) was a German building inspector, architect and archaeologist who excelled in particular in the critical research of prehistoric plank paths in Lower Saxony . The recording of the find area by Prejawa between 1890 and 1897 is considered extremely reliable and still forms the basis for research work by the Lower Saxony State Office for Monument Preservation .

biography

Hugo Prejawa was born on June 24, 1854 in Dwarischken, Gumbinnen district. In 1884 he married Anna Sohr, with whom he had three children; The eldest daughter was born in 1884, Gertrud, who later married the businessman Julius Fischer in Salzwedel, followed by her sister Eva in 1889 and Prejawa's only son, Paul, in 1900. After the birth of their daughters, the family moved to Diepholz in 1890 , where Hugo Prejawa worked as a building inspector and, among other things, supervised the registration of ground monuments. This included plank paths, but also ramparts, for example.

In 1897 he was transferred to Salzwedel , where he worked as a district building inspector. There he received in 1899 the "character as a building councilor with the personal rank of councilors fourth class". In May 1910 he was called to Friedeberg, where he stayed even after he retired. He died there after a long and serious illness on October 26, 1926 at the age of 72.

A building he designed in Friedeberg has been preserved to this day and is currently home to the local music school. In recognition of his achievements in the Diepholz district, moor paths were named after Hugo Prejawa with the abbreviation Pr .

Publications (selection)

Drawing of the excavation findings on a moor path by Hugo Prejawa

• The Bohlwege im Wittmoor , in: Communications from the Anthropological Association in Schleswig-Holstein , Volume 19, Kiel 1911, p. 57 ff.
• Erxleben Castle , in: Annual report of the Altmark Association for Patriotic History in Salzwedel , Volume 34, Salzwedel 1907, pp. 139–150. ( PDF; 9.7 MB )
• “The old castle” near Grafhorst , in: Annual report of the Altmark Association for Patriotic History in Salzwedel , Volume 32, Salzwedel 1905, pp. 115–118. ( PDF; 8.3 MB )
• The St. Marienkirche in Salzwedel , in: Annual report of the Altmark Association for Patriotic History in Salzwedel , Volume 31/2, Salzwedel 1904, pp. 11-16. ( PDF; 8.5 MB )
• Wall paintings in the churches of the Salzwedel district , in: Die Denkmalpflege , May 1903.
• The results of the Bohlweg investigations in the border moor between Oldenburg and Prussia and in Mellinghausen in the district of Sulingen , in: Osnabrücker Mitteilungen , Volume 21, Osnabrück 1896, pp. 98-178.
• The Pontes longi in Aschener Moor and in Mellinghausen , in: Osnabrücker Mitteilungen , Volume 19, Osnabrück 1894, pp. 177–202.

Web links

• Biography on the website of the Altmark Association for Patriotic History in Salzwedel ( Memento from September 6, 2009 in the Internet Archive )

Individual evidence

1. ^ Kreiszeitung.de : Germanic building in Ossenbeck: Art street that is more than 2000 years old. Moor path perfectly preserved. Retrieved June 16, 2015 . 
2. ^ Wilhelm Dräger: Archaeological probe in Mehrholz / Aschen on April 23 and 24, 2005. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on June 26, 2015 ; Retrieved June 26, 2015 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
3. ^ City administration Strzelce Krajeńskie : Famous residents of Friedeberg Neumark. Retrieved June 26, 2015 . 
4. ↑ Jennes, Annemarie: The prehistoric and early historical traces of settlement in the southwestern part of the district of Diepholz (Lower Saxony) and their relationship to the plank paths in the Great Moor at Dümmer, in: Archäologische Informations 18/1 (1995), pp. 105–111, here P. 111. doi: 10.11588 / ai.1995.1.17497