Baumlihof

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Bäumlihof, also called "Klein Riehen"
"Klein Riehen" in the baroque era, copper engraving by Emanuel Büchel , 1752

The Bäumlihof , also called Klein Riehen after the Wenkenhof was built , is an estate with a park in Riehen near Basel .

The extensive property extends south outside the closed local area of ​​Riehen, in the area between the Äusseren Baselstrasse / Riehenstrasse (however, a little set back from this) and the Bäumlihofstrasse. The Lindenallee (Kleinriehenpromenade) leading to the Bäumlihof begins right at the border of the Hirzbrunnen district of Basel .

history

According to tradition, the Bäumlihof was originally founded as a vineyard belonging to the Klingental monastery . The manor house that still exists today was built in 1686. After several land purchases and structural expansions, it has functioned without interruption, with one exception for 14 years, as the summer residence of the Basel upper-class families Burckhardt , Merian and Geigy (see also Basler Daig ).

The commercial entrepreneur and banker Samuel Burckhardt-Zäslin built the estate luxuriously in the late Baroque French style, combined residential and economic buildings into one building complex and in 1735 had a baroque pleasure garden laid out behind it in axial relation to the main building . The main architectural point of the garden was a garden room with stucco ornaments from 1738 by Johann Carl Hemeling .

In the middle of the 18th century, Johann Jakob Merian was the owner of the Bäumlihof.

The garden was converted into an English landscape garden (while maintaining the park wall and the old chestnut avenues) under the direction of the landlord, Samuel Merian-Kuder, and according to plans by the court gardener of the Baden margraves, Johann Michael Zeyher (1770 to 1843) . Zeyher's plan for this from 1802 has been preserved. Various small architectures, e.g. B. an apiary in the form of a Doric temple, the facade of which is clad with tree bark, now enriched the park.

In 1865 the facade of the garden hall was redesigned in a neo-baroque style. From 1876 to 1878, Johann Rudolf Geigy-Merian had a large mansion rebuilt, which was demolished in 1951 to preserve the original overall character.

After the death of the last sole owner, Helene Geigy-Schlumberger , the estate and park were divided among the heir families. As a result, major interventions such as new fences and hedges as well as modern installations impaired the uniformity of the ensemble. Johann Rudolf Geigy-Rodriguez and Elizabeth Geigy, the owners of the newly built villa Zu den Hirzen in the Bäumlihof area, in 2003 (client: J. Rudolf Geigy) replaced the former deer enclosure with the Hirzen Pavilion as a conference room and other exclusive events. The plans for this modern building, which is relatively transparent thanks to glazed walls, came from the Bern architecture firm Gauer Itten Messerli (GIM) and the Riehen landscape architecture firm Schönholzer + Stauffer. At the pavilion is a sculpture by the Israeli sculptor Rick Wienecke .

Klein Riehen Foundation

The preservation of standing as a monument of national and regional importance protected architectural and horticultural plants of Kleinriehenstrasse is supported by the 1997 under Swiss law on foundations launched and established directly in Bäumlihof Foundation Kleinriehenstrasse .

After a partial development of the Bäumlihof area had been planned since the 1960s, an initiative was founded in the early 1970s The Bäumlihof stays green . It achieved that a large-scale development was rejected in a vote in the canton of Basel-Stadt. In a further referendum in 1983, the canton was obliged to acquire the Bäumlihof area and to use it exclusively for nature conservation purposes. After the cantonal government promised to keep it free until at least 2012, the popular initiative was withdrawn in 2000.

The buildings and gardens of the Bäumlihof are privately owned and not open to the public.

literature

  • Paul Koelner : Bäumlihof Klein-Riehen: a Basel estate and its owners , Helbing & Lichtenhahn, Basel 1953; J. R Geigy, Basel 1958.
  • Hans Bühler: The Bäumlihof (Klein-Riehen). In: Basler Stadtbuch 1971 , Vol. 92, pp. 41–57.
  • Paul Henry Boerlin: Basel Gardens - Bäumlihof , Helbing & Lichtenhahn, Basel 1972 (published at the same time as a supplement to the annual report 1965–1971 of the Voluntary Basel Monument Preservation).
  • Silvia Hofmann: Historic gardens in Riehen: the Bäumlihof . In: Jahrbuch z'Rieche 1991, pp. 5-19 ( online ).
  • Anne Nagel: "Nature and art lovingly mixed together": the garden of the Bäumlihof in Riehen . In: Brigitt Sigel et al. (Ed.): Use and ornament: fifty historical gardens in Switzerland , Scheidegger & Spiess, Zurich 2006, pp. 96–101, ISBN 978-3-85881-182-0 .

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Remarks

  1. The architect and engineer Johann Carl (Charles) Hemeling († 1737) was for the ruling Margrave Karl III. Wilhelm von Baden-Durlach active. Among other things, he was involved in several expansion and redesign projects at Karlsruhe Palace . a. Draft plans made for the menagerie (1723) and the orangery (1724/25) (see L GS 14038. Lineamenta.biblhertz.it . Accessed June 22, 2011.). From 1728 he worked for the Margrave's buildings in Basel. The plans for the Ramsteinerhof come from Hemeling ( picture: right  ( page no longer available , search in web archivesInfo: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. ) At Basel Rittergasse and the "New Wenken" (1736). The baroque garden room of the Bäumlihof is probably his last design, executed by another hand shortly after his death.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.gsk.ch  
  2. Spelling also Johann Jacob Merian (* 1741, Suizid 1799), came from the so-called "older Merian line", he was married to Gertrud De Bary and a great-nephew of Johannes Zäslin (1697-1752), who in 1736 called " Neue Wenken »Built. Merian also had the utility building of the "Alter Wenken" rebuilt and a small forest that still exists today was created on Bettingerstrasse in Riehen. He is not to be confused with Johann Jakob Merian (1792-1837) and Johann Jakob Merian-Merian (1768-1841), the co-founder of Frères Merian .

Coordinates: 47 ° 34 ′ 15 "  N , 7 ° 37 ′ 25"  E ; CH1903:  613.92 thousand  /  two hundred and sixty-eight thousand nine hundred and twenty