Tannenhöft Arboretum
The Tannenhöft arboretum is a 22-hectare facility in Großhansdorf . It was created at the beginning of the 20th century at the work of the owner at the time, the Hamburg shipowner George Henry Lütgens . The arboretum with pond and rock area ("Rockery") and the manor house have been a listed building since 2002 .
The property is now federally owned and is used as a research location by the Thünen Institute of Forest Genetics, a specialist institute of the Johann Heinrich von Thünen Institute .
history
The Hamburg shipowner Henry Lütgens acquired the property in 1908 in order to build a country estate at the gates of Hamburg and an arboretum. It was set up and maintained under the leadership of the Hamburg garden architect Rudolph Jürgens . The villa was built in 1908/09 by the Hamburg architects Johann Gottlieb Rambatz and Wilhelm Jollasse in a mixed style of classicist Art Nouveau elements.
After GH Lütgens passed away in 1928, the heirs were supposed to sell it. Although the area was to be used by the Reich Institute for foreign and colonial forestry, the property went to the city of Hamburg.
In the years after the Second World War, the Institute for Inorganic Chemistry of the University of Hamburg was relocated to the villa and carried out research and teaching here from 1946 to 1948. After the university institute moved into a newly erected building in Hamburg-Eimsbüttel, the site became the sole use of what was then the Central Institute for Forestry and Wood Management , which was renamed the Federal Research Institute for Forestry and Wood Management (BFAFH) a year later .
Forest scientific significance
The arboretum is characterized by several shaping elements. Hanging beeches and other solitary trees were planted in the immediate vicinity of the villa . Behind the laboratory building there is a pond that forms the transition between open meadows and forest-like design. The stone landscape by the pond was laid out in a romanticizing style with caves and grottos. Due to construction work in the early 20th century on the site and the adjacent urban area, the natural spring that supplied the pond dried up. Another characteristic part of the arboretum is the Japan Quarter, which was initially laid out as a flower garden and was changed to its current form from 1920 with East Asian trees.
The arboretum, which was laid out between 1910 and 1924, impressed the professional world, so that the German Dendrological Society , which met in Altona in 1925, went on an excursion to Großhansdorf.
The planting of spruce along the Sieker Landstrasse from Großhansdorf to Ahrensburg is striking . This is a plantation created for scientific purposes. In the meantime, several trees have been felled so that a better view of the area from the outside is possible.
Current usage
The Tannenhöft Arboretum has been used by the Institute for Forest Genetics and Forest Plant Breeding, today the Thünen Institute for Forest Genetics, since 1948. The mansion houses the administration and office space. A laboratory building was erected in 1967/68. In the front area of the arboretum, the areas that were already used for agriculture during the Lütgens time were converted into tree nursery areas, which together with several greenhouses and technical facilities form the institute's nursery . At the back of the arboretum is a collection of aspen , beech , larch , spruce , pine and birch for scientific purposes. The central part of the arboretum remains in its original character.
Due to the use of the site as a research facility, the arboretum is not open to the public. However, after consultation, guided tours by institute staff are possible.
literature
- ↑ Tannenhöft Arboretum. Retrieved July 28, 2020 .
- ↑ a b c d e Großhansdorf: Park Tannenhöft with villa placed under monument protection. July 4, 2002, accessed July 28, 2020 .
Coordinates: 53 ° 39 ′ 41.9 ″ N , 10 ° 15 ′ 19.8 ″ E