Andreas Weber (garden architect)
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Andreas Weber (born March 13, 1832 in Frankfurt am Main ; † October 2, 1901 there ) was a German landscape gardener , commercial gardener and garden architect. From 1861 until his death he was first a city gardener and later a city horticultural director in Frankfurt am Main.
Many gardens in Frankfurt and the surrounding area were (helped) designed by him.
Life
Born on March 13, 1832 in Frankfurt, Weber came from a family with a tradition of gardening: his maternal grandfather Sebastian Rinz , whose father and grandfather were also gardeners, was also a Frankfurt city gardener.
After completing his gardening apprenticeship, which he started at the S. & J. Rinz tree nursery in 1847 - which was run by his grandfather and his sons - Weber went on a hike. From 1850 to 1852 this took him to Belgium, the Netherlands, Great Britain, France, Germany and Austria. He had worked in horticulture in London, Paris and Brussels and trained in practical commercial gardening and English landscaping. He was also doing business for his grandfather's gardening business. Weber is said to have been on an educational trip to America during this time.
After his return, Weber initially worked in his grandfather's nursery and in 1856 became his grandfather's adjunct at the city of Frankfurt. After his death in 1861 he took over the position of the city gardener. In addition, he continued to work as a commercial gardener and garden architect and designed numerous private gardens in Frankfurt and the surrounding area.
In 1897 Weber was appointed municipal gardening director, as his field of work had expanded considerably.
Weber was married to the Frankfurt merchant's daughter Maria Antoinette (Antonia) Busch, with whom he had seven children. He was buried in the family grave in the Frankfurt main cemetery.
Create
After his death, almost every public green space in Frankfurt should have been designed or maintained by Weber. In particular, Weber was responsible for the following horticultural facilities by designing or significantly helping to shape them:
- Eppstein mountain park
- Dreieich-Park in Offenbach am Main
- Gail'scher Park in Bieberthal
- Günthersburgpark
- Nice , a garden on the north bank of the Main in Frankfurt
- Ostpark Frankfurt am Main
- Park of the Jesuit University Sankt Georgen
- Frankfurt Zoo
Appreciation
In honor of Andreas Weber there is a bronze relief on a quay wall in Nice .
His grave in the Frankfurt main cemetery (A 81d-c) is a holy stick made of polished black syenite on a polygonal pillar with a triangular gable. Below the gable is a bronze relief with the motif of the Madonna and Child in the style of the Florentine Renaissance. The grave monument is a listed building .
literature
- Wolfgang Klötzer (Hrsg.): Frankfurter Biographie . Personal history lexicon . Second volume. M – Z (= publications of the Frankfurt Historical Commission . Volume XIX , no. 2 ). Waldemar Kramer, Frankfurt am Main 1996, ISBN 3-7829-0459-1 , p. 535 .
Web links
- Andreas Weber - a Frankfurt gardening apprentice on a tour of the website of the Institute for Urban History (Frankfurt am Main)
- Andreas Weber In the central database of bequests
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Mechthild Harting: City gardener Andreas Weber: Foreign trees as trademarks. (No longer available online.) In: faz.net. March 14, 2007, archived from the original on July 24, 2015 ; accessed on March 30, 2018 .
- ↑ a b c Andreas Weber - a Frankfurt gardener's apprentice on the move. ( Memento from September 24, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) On: stadtgeschichte-ffm.de , January 25, 2013, accessed on July 24, 2015.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Weber, Andreas |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German horticulturist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 13, 1832 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Frankfurt am Main |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 2, 1901 |
| Place of death | Frankfurt am Main |