Max Buntzel

Max Buntzel (born May 29, 1850 in Niederschöneweide ; † December 6, 1907 in Berlin ) was a royal horticultural director , Berlin tree nursery and plantation owner .

Career

Buntzel came from today's Berlin-Schöneweide , where he owned extensive estates on the banks of the Spree. He completed his apprenticeship as a gardener at the Späth tree nursery . He then attended the Royal Gardening College in Potsdam and founded a rose gardening business in 1875 in what is now the Berlin-Niederschöneweide district .

Buntzel was a founding member of the Association of German Rose Friends (VDR) founded in 1883 and its board member. As early as 1886 he was one of the most famous German rose gardeners . Around 1890 he was appointed Royal Horticultural Director. Both as an entrepreneur and as a member of the district council in the Teltow district , Buntzel made an outstanding contribution to the development of the former communities of Altglienicke and Bohnsdorf. He died at the age of 57 as a result of bowel surgery.

Buntzel Villa

Hedwigshöhe Hospital (Villa)

In the years after 1890, Buntzel acquired land around the Falkenberg , located between Altglienicke and Bohnsdorf , and set up an orchard there. In 1898 he built a palace -like villa in the Renaissance style on the hill , which has resulted in the Falkenberg being called Buntzelberg by the residents ever since.

Due to financial hardships caused by an expensive lifestyle, Buntzel had to sell the villa and plantation again in 1902. The villa changed hands several times before it was acquired by the Catholic St. Hedwig Hospital in 1924 . It had the Hedwigshöhe Hospital built here, which - opened in August 1925 - initially served as a convalescent home, during World War II as a military hospital and from 1945 as a civilian hospital . Today, the hospital run by the Alexians includes , among other things, an outpatient surgery center and an geriatric psychiatric day clinic in the villa, which has now been considerably converted, and the entrance area with a flight of stairs still refers to the earlier design.

Naming

After Max Buntzel among others located in Berlin-Bohnsdorf was Buntzelstraße , a cultured from the Rose breeders Soupert & Notting scent rose, a Norway maple (Acer platanoides var. Aureo variegatum Buntzleri) and the location also in Bohnsdorf elementary school on Buntzelberg named.

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• Stephan Olbrich: The rose breeding and care. Publishing house Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart 1925
• Bohnsdorf Local History Interest Group, Section of the Kulturbund Treptow eV: Bohnsdorf on the way to the capital - local history written down , Berlin 1992
• Bohnsdorf Local History Interest Group, Section of the Kulturbund Treptow eV: Bohnsdorf in Berlin - Pictures from Local History , Berlin 1994

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Karin Schmidl: And on top the Buntzelschlösschen. In: Berliner Zeitung , July 15, 2004
2. ^ Bohnsdorf - history
3. ↑ Hedwigshöhe Hospital - Chronicle ( Memento of the original from October 24, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) 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. 
4. ↑ berlin.de - the official capital city portal - Bohnsdorf at a glance ( Memento of the original from April 23, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) 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. 
5. ↑ World of Roses ( Memento of the original from May 2, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) 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. 
6. ↑ Dr. L. Wittmack , monthly of the association for the promotion of horticulture in the Königl. Preuss. States and the Society of Garden Friends Berlin, 23rd year Berlin 1880, p. 321