August Hooff
August Hooff (born October 26, 1839 in Detmold , † February 11, 1904 in Köthen ) was a German garden architect and pomologist .
Life
Hooff visited the Detmold Leopoldinum and after graduating began an apprenticeship as a gardener in the palace garden there . After educational trips through Austria-Hungary, Holland, Belgium, Italy and France, he became garden inspector at Harbke Castle in 1863 .
In 1875 he applied to the ducal tree nurseries in Köthen and was hired on March 23, 1875 as a plantation inspector. In the same year he was appointed ducal horticultural director. He taught horticulture, vegetable growing and fruit tree breeding at the Princely State Seminar and was in charge of pheasantry and fruit growing on the ducal orchards.
As part of his work, he designed, among other things, the facilities around the pheasantry with bush pond, the brook square, the Siebenbrünnen promenade, the bear pond promenade, the facilities around the polytechnic and the new community cemetery .
Honors
- 1888: Anhalt Gold Medal of Merit
- 1895: Second class knighthood
- 1905: Monument in honor of August Hooff at the Buschteich in Köthen; erected by the non-profit association Cöthen.
Gardens (incomplete)
- 1874: English landscape garden after Hermann von Pückler-Muskau for the manor owner Hubert Freiherr von dem Bussche-Lohe in Cösitz
- 1886: Garden at Schlossgartenstrasse 10 in Bernburg
- 1894 to 1896: Mausoleum park at the mausoleum (Dessau)
literature
- Sandra Striebing: The garden architect August Hooff: a garden-historical and garden-theoretical consideration Museum für Stadtgeschichte Dessau, 2005, OCLC 78894299 .
- Hooff, August. In: Anton Bettelheim : Biographical Yearbook and German Nekrolog . Volume 10. Georg Reimer, 1907, p. 384.
Web links
- On the 100th anniversary of the death of August Hooff - ducal horticultural director
- August Hooff (1839–1904)
- Z 117-2, H No. 44 Hooff, August, 1875–1904 (file) , State Archives Saxony-Anhalt
Individual evidence
- ↑ August Hooff. [Obituary]; in: Viennese illustrated garden newspaper. 1904, p. 120.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Hooff, August |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German garden architect and pomologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 26, 1839 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Detmold |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 11, 1904 |
| Place of death | Koethen |