Jürgen Cieslak

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Jürgen Cieslak during a guided tour of the surrounding area in Seifhennersdorf, May 2014

Jürgen Cieslak (born September 30, 1942 in Seifhennersdorf ) is a German stove fitter and honorary monument conservator . In recognition of his more than three decades of work to preserve the half-timbered houses in Upper Lusatia and the neighboring regions of the neighboring countries, the Saxon Prime Minister Stanislaw Tillich awarded him the Saxon Order of Merit in May 2014 . In 2006, the Umbindeland office honored him with one of eight prizes at the first presentation of the Umbindehaus Prize.

Life

Tiled stove in the half-timbered house of Bulnheimschen Hof in Seifhennersdorf

The son of the stove setter Johannes Cieslak (1914–2003) and his wife Susanne (née Schreiber) apprenticed to his father from 1957 to 1960. He deepened his education from 1967 to 1971 with a university degree in the subjects of thermal engineering and engineering pedagogy , which he completed as a graduate engineer or engineering pedagogue, and received his master craftsman's certificate in 1973. Six years later he took over the family business founded by his grandfather. From 1980 to 2004 he was guild chief master .

Since the 1970s, Cieslak has been campaigning against the demolition and for the preservation of half timbered houses . He was involved in 1976 in the Cultural Association of the GDR in the section "Nature and Cultural Friends" and later in the Society for Preservation in Cultural Association of the GDR co-founder of the District Committee of Experts "folk architecture" for the Dresden district . In order to continue his work and with the aim of maintaining the traditional construction method in Saxony, Cieslak was one of the founding members of the Saxon Association for Folk Construction after the fall of the Wall . With his own resources he was able to save two half-timbered houses from demolition. Cieslak, as chairman of Traditionshof Bulnheim e. , Was responsible for the renovation of a factor farm in Seifhennersdorf, which is also called Bulnheimscher Hof after its last owners . V. makes it possible to set different stoves based on historical models with tiles that have been recovered from other locations.

Jürgen Cieslak is a court-appointed expert for the tiled stove and air heating construction trade and has advised the Löbau-Zittau district on its positioning as a regional timber frame, including the neighboring Polish and Czech regions. As early as the 1980s, Cieslak organized traveling exhibitions on the surrounding structure / folk architecture, and he also gives tours and gives specialist lectures.

Publications

Cieslak emerged as an author and editor of literature on half-timbered houses and was involved in other publications.

  • Jürgen Cieslak, Council of the City of Seifhennersdorf (ed.): Seifhennersdorf Information - A home and hiking booklet. Graphic workshops Zittau-Görlitz, 1977.
  • Karl Bernert , Jürgen Cieslak: We live in a half-timbered house . Working material for the preservation and proper care of the surrounding construction method in Upper Lusatia. Ed .: District board of Dresden of the Society for Monument Preservation in the Kulturbund der DDR, Institute for Monument Preservation (=  We live in a half-timbered house . Part I). Dresden 1982, DNB  209120460 ( digital reprint [PDF; 4.0 MB ; accessed on January 28, 2015]).
  • Frank Delitz , Jürgen Cieslak: South Lusatian half-timbered houses . Ed .: Council of the District of Zittau, Department of Culture; Society for the Preservation of Monuments in the Kulturbund of the GDR, district management Dresden (=  we live in a half-timbered house . Part II). Zittau, DNB  960029141 ( digital reprint [PDF; 6.5 MB ; accessed on January 28, 2015] around 1984).
  • Jürgen Cieslak: tiled stove and surrounding area. In: Oberlausitzer Heimat. "... who protects and receives ..." 12 (1999), pp. 53–56.
  • Saxon Association for Folk Building (Ed.): Umgebung. A unique construction in the triangle of Germany, Poland and the Czech Republic (= The Blue Books ). Editors Jürgen Cieslak, Christine Goldberg-Holz , Jeannette Gosteli, Kerstin Richter, A. Schulz and Christian Schurig . Langewiesche publishing house, Königstein i. Ts. 2007, ISBN 978-3-7845-5210-1 .

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Half-timbered house price. Umbindehaus Foundation, accessed on March 21, 2020 (The Umbindehaus Foundation took over and continued to carry out the Ambient House Prize, as it did later, gradually, from the Umbindehaus office.)
  2. ↑ Seifhennersdorf, Rumburger Str.46a. "Bulnheim-Traditionshof" - an exemplary renovated half-timbered house courtyard. In: Umgebung.de. Archived from the original on January 5, 2016 ; Retrieved January 5, 2016 .
  3. ↑ history. Ofenbau Christof Singer, accessed on January 28, 2015 .
  4. ↑ Saxon Order of Merit: Order bearers from A to Z. Saxon State Chancellery, accessed on March 21, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Cieslak, Jürgen
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German stove fitter and honorary monument conservator
DATE OF BIRTH September 30, 1942
PLACE OF BIRTH Seifhennersdorf , Saxony