Adolf Kowallek

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Kowallek's grave slab on the south cemetery in Cologne, which he helped design

Adolf Kowallek (born December 27, 1852 in Wongrowitz / Posen, † May 16, 1902 in Cologne ) was a German garden architect.

Adolf Kowallek, the son of a district judge, received his training at the traditional Royal Gardening College in Potsdam. From 1877 he worked as an assistant to the Berlin gardening director Johann Heinrich Gustav Meyer and was involved in the construction of the Volkspark Humboldthain and Treptower Park . In 1879 he took over the management of work on the gardens of the Berlin trade fair.

From 1880 Adolf Kowallek worked as head gardener in the city gardening department for Nuremberg, and on October 25, 1882 he was appointed "Garden Inspector" in recognition of the services he did in building the gardens at Maxfeld for the "First Bavarian State Art Exhibition , Industrie und Gewerbe 1882 ”. The Maxfeld, a green area that emerged from the so-called "Judenbühl", was laid out in 1856 by Georg Zacharias Platner in the style of an English landscape park and since then has served as a festival and event space for many years. Under Kowallek, this facility developed into the most important Nuremberg green space at the turn of the century. It was further expanded in the following period, including the construction of a city gardening facility and the creation of a rose garden, and was the venue for the "Second Bavarian State Exhibition 1896"; then it became the " city ​​park ".

Kowallek made plans for the redesign of Rosenau Park on behalf of Rosenau-Anlagengesellschaft (1885/86). The Rosenau green area, which at that time was still owned by the company and only accessible for a fee, was then acquired by the city of Nuremberg a few years later (1893) and became a public green area.

He planned the execution of the north cemetery in Cologne in 1896. Kowallek was made an honorary member of the Nuremberg Horticultural Association in recognition of his services when he left in 1887.

After working for the city of Nuremberg for seven years, Kowallek moved to Cologne, where he was gardening director from May 9, 1887 until his death. There he designed important facilities such as Volksgarten (1888–1890), Stadtgarten (1888–1890), Römerpark (1895–1898), Cologne City Forest (1895–1899) and parts of the promenades of the Cologne Rings (1888–1891). Kowallek has also emerged as a co-founder and chairman of the Cologne Horticultural Society since 1890. Kowallek's successor in office from May 1902 was initially provisional Hermann Robert Jung , from 1903 then the well-known garden architect Fritz Encke . Kowallek is buried in Cologne's southern cemetery.

A street in the south of Cologne bears his name.

Web links

Commons : Adolf Kowallek  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Tobias Christ: Cologne then and now: Strict morals prevailed in the Volksgarten. November 21, 2019, accessed on August 12, 2020 (German).
  2. ↑ Barbara Schock-Werner, recorded by Joachim Frank: Kölner Stadtwald: A paradise for walkers. August 28, 2018, accessed on August 12, 2020 (German).
  3. ↑ Helmut Frangenberg: Excursion destination: Why there is a piece of British territory in Cologne's southern cemetery. July 12, 2016, accessed on August 12, 2020 (German).
personal data
SURNAME Kowallek, Adolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German garden architect
DATE OF BIRTH December 27, 1852
PLACE OF BIRTH Wongrowitz , Poznan
DATE OF DEATH May 16, 1902
Place of death Cologne