Árpád Mill

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Árpád Mill, portrayed by the painter Adalbert Varga.

Árpád Mühle , pseudonym Linné the planter , (born November 7, 1870 in Temesvár , Kingdom of Hungary , Austria-Hungary ; † July 22, 1930 in Sinaia , Kingdom of Romania ) was a landscape architect , rose grower , kuk councilor and specialist author .

Live and act

Árpád Mühle was born on November 7, 1870 as the son of the landscape architect Wilhelm Mühle in Temesvár (today Timișoara ). After attending the Piarist High School , he went on a series of study trips to Germany, Luxembourg, Belgium, the Netherlands and the USA. In 1898 he took over his father's horticultural business, which he modernized. For example, he introduced heating in the glass houses of his father's business, which made it possible to export plants and cut flowers during the cold season.

Árpád mill was purveyor to the court of the Romanian, Serbian and Bulgarian royal families. In Bucharest he participated in the design of the Cișmigiu Park . In Sinaia he planned the city park of Peleș Castle together with the horticultural director of the Romanian royal family, Guttmann . In the Bulgarian capital Sofia he designed the Japanese Garden and on the island of Prinkipo in the Marmara Sea off Istanbul he built a park. For this, the Sultan awarded him the Medjidie Order . Due to his statistics on the export of agricultural and horticultural products, he was awarded the title of kuk Kommerzienrat in 1912 . Later the Romanian state awarded him the medal "Meritul Comercial și Industrial" (Order of Merit for Trade and Industry).

His attention was drawn to roses and canna , but exotic plants and their acclimatization in the Banat. He bred the canna variety “Margarethe-Mühle-Canna” and the rose varieties “Wilhelm-Bölsche-Rose”, “Hans-Molisch-Rose” and “Banater-Rose”. He registered a total of 13 new rose varieties.

As a co-founder of the Society of Friends of Roses, he drew for the design and creation of the rose garden in Timișoara . Wilhelm Mühle's first rose garden in Timișoara was destroyed in the First World War. The first sketch of the new rose garden comes from Árpád Mühle. The rose garden received its final shape in 1935.

In the last years of his life, Árpád Mühle dealt with rock gardens . In the summer of 1930 he was invited to Sibiu by the local horticultural association. After the meeting, he wanted to look for rare mountain plants in the Bucegi Mountains , but had to interrupt his hike for health reasons. Árpád Mühle died on July 22, 1930 at the age of 60 in Sinaia. Four days later he was buried in Timisoara.

Busts of Árpád and Wilhelm Mühle in the rose garden in Timișoara

On August 1, 2014, the bust of Árpád Mühle was ceremoniously unveiled in the rose garden in Timișoara. It is the work of the sculptor Aurel Gheorghe Ardeleanu . It stands not far from the bust of his father Wilhelm Mühle.

Publications

Arpad Mühle published articles in the Temesvar newspaper under the pseudonym “Linnaeus the Planter” . His "Gartenbauanzeiger" was self-published twice a week and was offered to its customers free of charge. In the "Temesvarer Zeitung" from 1930 an article about rock gardens "Alpine rock gardens - a chapter for nature and garden lovers" appeared.

He published several specialist books and rose catalogs in book form:

  • “The most beautiful leaf and flora plants. Their breeding and care ”, Temesvár 1908
  • "The culture of chrysanthemums", Temesvár 1908
  • “The gender of the canna. Their history, culture and cultivation ”, Temesvár 1909
  • "Mühle's Rose Book", Temesvár 1916
  • “From sunny lands. Travel letters from a summer trip ”, Temesvár 1911
  • "Path flowers. Picked on a happy wandering ”, published by Viktor Orendi-Hommenau , Timisoara 1918
  • Rose catalogs

Memberships

  • Member of the Senate of Timisoara
  • Chairman of the Garden Friends Association (1912)
  • Vice President of the Friends of Music Association
  • Co-founder of the Society of Friends of Roses
  • Chairman of the Association of Rose Friends of Romania
  • Honorary Chairman of the Schlaraffia Society Timisoara

Awards

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Anton Peter Petri : Biographisches Lexikon des Banater Deutschtums , Marquartstein, 1992, ISBN 3-922046-76-2 .
  2. ↑ a b c d banater-schwaben.org , Banater Zeitung of September 16, 2014: Late recognition for outstanding garden architects.
  3. ↑ a b salvatipatrimoniultimisoarei.ro , Arpad Mühle.
  4. ↑ Stefan Both: PHOTO Árpád Mühle, proiectantul Parcului Rozelor din Timişoara, la loc de cinste alături de tatăl său. In: adevarul.ro. August 1, 2014, accessed June 17, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Mill, Árpád
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Linnaeus the planter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Landscape architect, rose grower, councilor and specialist author
DATE OF BIRTH November 7, 1870
PLACE OF BIRTH Temesvár , Kingdom of Hungary , Austria-Hungary
DATE OF DEATH July 22, 1930
Place of death Sinaia , Kingdom of Romania