Karl Bernert

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Karl Bernert (born September 27, 1927 in Rosdil , Galicia , † October 20, 2009 in Löbau ) was a German homeland and building researcher . His work as a district monument curator and author has made a significant contribution to preserving the Upper Lusatian half-timbered house . The Nestor of Umgebindehaus research was awarded in 2002 the Silver hemisphere of the German National Committee for Monument Protection .

Life

Karl Bernert was born in 1927 in Galicia, which at that time belonged to Poland , and came to his parents' homeland in northern Bohemia in 1939 , where he lived until the end of the war . In 1945 he came to Wiesa near Kamenz in Upper Lusatia . During the war, he began studying engineering in Liberec (Reichenberg). He was mason - master craftsmen (training in Kamenz and Bautzen), a civil engineer and architect (degree in Zittau) and vocational school teachers for construction trades in Dresden .

Karl Bernert had been a volunteer district monument curator since 1962. His activities included the inventory of the monuments of the Löbau district in 1970 and 1974, for which he also led student working groups and recorded around 1,800 objects, mainly half-timbered houses. He made contacts with people interested in folk architecture in neighboring countries, for which he expanded his knowledge of the Polish language and acquired the Czech language . Particularly on the subject of the half-timbered house, he led the collaboration with the construction department at the Zittau / Görlitz University of Applied Sciences .

Bernert wrote many publications on the protection of monuments and in particular on the folk building method of the half-timbered house, such as the book "half-timbered houses" from 1988 and the "picture dictionary of the framework construction of Upper Lusatia and the adjacent Czech and Polish regions" in German, Czech, Polish and Upper Sorbian , which he suggested and together with Eberhard Deutschmann, Helmut Jentsch-Jenč and other authors from the Saxon Association for Folk Architecture in 1995 in Dresden.

Publications

Handwritten notes by Karl Bernert from his estate in the district archive of the Görlitz district .
  • The construction of the half-timbered house . In: Sächsischer Verein für Volksbauweise e. V. (Ed.): Umgebung. A unique construction in the triangle of Germany, Poland and the Czech Republic (=  The Blue Books ). Langewiesche KR, Königstein im Taunus 2006, ISBN 3-7845-5210-2 , p. 17–37 (with Christian Schurig).
  • Ornaments on and in the surrounding area. Ibid, pp. 49-57.
  • Half-timbered houses. A European uniqueness; Unique concentration in Europe in the triangle of Germany, the Czech Republic and Poland . revised and expanded edition. Olesch-Werbung, Löbau 2004 ( table of contents ).
  • Half-timbered houses - a very special folk architecture / folk architecture . In: Zittau history sheets. Local history, culture, natural history of south-eastern Upper Lusatia . tape 10 , no. 2-3 . Oettel, 2003, ISSN  1439-2739 , p. 17–19, 21, 23–26 (examples from Upper Lusatia).
  • Karl Bernert (Ed.): Picture dictionary of the Upper Lusatian framework construction method; and the neighboring Czech and Polish areas . Saxon Association for Folk Architecture V., Dresden 1995 (Czech, German, Upper Sorbian, Polish).
  • Worth knowing about the half-timbered house . In: Upper Lusatian house book . Lusatia Verlag, 1993, ZDB -ID 1111457-5 , p. 85-89 .
  • Half-timbered houses . Verlag für Bauwesen, Berlin 1988, ISBN 3-345-00001-6 (All photos and drawings were made by the author, with the exception of the illustration by K. Einert).
  • Half-timbered houses . Beton-Verlag, Düsseldorf 1988, ISBN 3-7640-0235-2 (licensed printing of the publishing house for construction, Berlin).
  • The half-timbered house in Upper Lusatia. Short information and illustrative material . Ed .: Council of the District of Löbau, Department of Culture. Löbau 1989, DNB  946133476 .
  • The cast iron tower on the Löbauer Berg . Ed .: Council of the City of Löbau. Löbau, DNB  110884523 ( see also: König-Friedrich-August-Turm ).
  • 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 ( umindeland.de [PDF; 4.0 MB ; accessed on January 28, 2015] digital reprint).

literature

  • Klaus Bernert, Manfred Hammer: Karl Bernert: 1927–2009. Life and work . Ed .: Association of Rural Building Values ​​in Saxony e. V. Dresden (=  personalities in the Saxon area ). Dresden 2010 ( table of contents ).
  • Ulrich Rosner: In memoriam Karl Bernert . In: State Office for Monument Preservation Saxony (Ed.): Preservation of monuments in Saxony. Notices from the State Office for Monument Preservation Saxony . Sax-Verlag, 2009, ISSN  0943-2132 , p. 127 .
  • Manfred Schober : Karl Bernert . In: Farmhouses and farms in Saxony. Bulletin of the Association for Rural Building Values ​​in Saxony e. V. (=  Saxon house researchers and preservationists ). Part 4-6. Association for rural building values ​​in Saxony, 2007, ZDB -ID 2230549-X .

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personal data
SURNAME Bernert, Karl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German homeland and building researcher
DATE OF BIRTH September 27, 1927
PLACE OF BIRTH Rosdil , Galicia
DATE OF DEATH October 20, 2009
Place of death Löbau