Federal Horticultural Show 1951

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Sculpture in the Hannover City Park
Exhibition area of ​​the allotment garden colony "Am See"
Exhibition of a loom
Stand of the fruit shop on Limmerstrasse

The 1951 Federal Garden Show in Hanover (also: BUGA Hanover 1951 ) was the third exhibition of its kind on horticulture in West Germany after the Second World War and the first Federal Garden Show to be the successor to the Reich Garden Show .

prehistory

The city ​​hall garden (today: city ​​park ), which was destroyed by around 100 bomb craters during the air raids on Hanover , was redesigned in 2½ years of planning and construction for the "exhibition of the entire horticultural sector and state maintenance". Peter Hübotter won the first prize for the garden design . The area that was available was 21  ha .

The garden show

The first Federal Garden Show was opened on April 28, 1951 by Federal President Theodor Heuss and his wife Elly Heuss-Knapp , who also took over the patronage . It lasted 187 days. Around 1.6 million people attended the event, which included the flower parade through Hanover city center .

In addition to the outdoor presentations, exhibits from various groups were also exhibited.

literature

in alphabetical order by authors / editors

  • Deutsche Bundesgartenschau GmbH (ed.): 50 years of federal horticultural shows. Festschrift on the history of the federal and international garden shows in Germany . Bonn 2001.
  • G. Gröning, J. Wolschke-Bulmahn: From city gardening to green space office (1890–1990) . Hanover 1990, p. 133ff.
  • H. Hammerbacher: On the first German Federal Horticultural Show in Hanover in 1951 . In: Garten und Landschaft , 61, 1951, issue 11, p. 5.
  • W. Hübotter: About the JADEGA competition 1951 . In: Garten und Landschaft , 59, 949, issue 11/12, p. 6.
  • Kaspar Klaffke, Gesa Klaffke-Lobsien: Hanover. City of Gardens - gardens of a city . Seelze 2000, pp. 63, 70.
  • Klaus Mlynek (Hrsg.): Hanover Chronicle : from the beginnings to the present. Numbers, data, facts . P. 230.
  • 50 years city park. 1st Federal Horticultural Show 1951 . State capital Hanover, Hanover 2001.
  • Eva Benz-Rababah : Federal Garden Show . In: Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhr-bein (eds.) U. a .: City Lexicon Hanover . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2009, ISBN 978-3-89993-662-9 , pp. 98f.
  • Ludwig Zerull : Art without a roof. Sculptures and objects in the cityscape of Hanover . Ed. Libri Artis, Schäfer, Hannover 1992, ISBN 3-88746-278-5 , pp. 17, 52.

Web links

Commons : Bundesgartenschau 1951  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ see page of the German Federal Garden Show Society , section Weblinks
  2. ↑ a b Eva Benz-Rababah: Federal Garden Show . In: Stadtlexikon Hannover . P. 98f.
  3. ↑ Deutsche Bundesgartenschau GmbH (ed.): 50 Years of the Bundesgartenschau 5, p. 13.
  4. ↑ Deutsche Bundesgartenschau GmbH (ed.): 50 Years of the Bundesgartenschau 5, p. 14.
  5. ↑ Deutsche Bundesgartenschau GmbH (ed.): 50 Years of the Bundesgartenschau 5, p. 13.
  6. ↑ see also further photos in the Federal Archives (Prof. Arntz) at Commons