gustaf-nagel-areal, Paradise Garden

The remains of the sculpture garden of the Kolrabi saint and life reformer Gustaf Nagel can be found at Arendsee in the Altmark.

The gustaf-nagel area (original spelling: gustaf-nagel-areal) is an area on the south bank of the Arendsee in Saxony-Anhalt . The area belonging to the city of Arendsee was the long-standing workplace of the life reformer Gustav Nagel (1874–1952). Nagel worked here in the first half of the 20th century as a preacher, healer, musician and horticultural artist. Remnants of some of the buildings he built are still there. He advocated a life close to nature and was a staunch vegetarianand propagated a simplified aural orthography. This is how he wrote his name gustaf nagel.

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The remains of the sculpture garden of the Kolrabi saint and life reformer Gustaf Nagel can be found at Arendsee in the Altmark.

Nagel was a life reformer and inflationary saint, as they were called in the 1920s, i.e. a barefoot, vegetarian Jesus apparition living in a cave in the ground.

All in all, he had quite an eventful life, got on the healer's path through Kneipp cures, plagiarized to Jerusalem and then built his paradise garden with a bathhouse for cures.

According to Henk van Es, Nagel's garden can be considered an "art environment" due to its organic architecture (source) and I would confirm this.

Overlooking the style of the various buildings, in German reviews of the site described as small organic architecture, and the various sculptural items in the exterior, the site can be classified as an art environment in the quality of singular architecture in a sculpture garden.

A classification as art environment will not easily be made in Germany itself, because this country has such a small number of such sites that here this type of artistic creation in general is not seen as a phenomenon in its own right.

The sculptures and structures can be considered naïve in the sense of unlearned, but have survived the times so far and show a creative line.

Nagel developed his own spelling which aimed at simplification and was also oriented towards pronunciation in sinch. (kwele)

Nagel was quite active even during the Nazi era, founding a one-man party but ending up in a concentration camp.

He survived this and set about rebuilding his garden after 1945. Unfortunately, the new communist government was not well-disposed towards him and he spent his last years in a mental hospital, where he died in 1952.

There is a lot of information to be found on the internet. I found it funny that nagel was married three times and that his third wife, whom he met through extensive advertising, probably beat him because she didn't fancy the vegetarian nonsense. At least that's what the internet says.

After divorcing his second wife, Nagel tried to find a new life partner in various ways. Among other things, he placed marriage advertisements and sent so-called "rose letters" to women he liked. After several short, often exclusively sexual relationships, it was not until 1937 that a new committed partnership was formed. On 23. February of that year, the Arendseer Wochenblatt published an advertisement with the following text: "as, with God in Jesus Christ's name, greetings: eleonore teichmann, nurse, gustaf nagel, temple guard, poet and composer of the Lord by the grace of God." Nagel had met Eleonore Dadeck (* February 13\, 1913) in Berlin-Charlottenburg. On 3. May 1938, the church wedding took place in Arendsee with great public interest. To the annoyance of the National Socialist authorities, almost all German newspapers reported on this event. This marriage, which remained childless, also developed problematically. There were violent arguments in which the wife successfully defended herself due to her physical superiority. She refused to adopt a vegetarian lifestyle and even reported her husband to the Magdeburg Gestapo in 1940 for his anti-state speeches. Gustav Nagel responded by reporting Eleonore to the local police, claiming that she had tried to poison him. The marriage was divorced on July 10, 1941.

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