Carl Friedrich Thelemann

Carl Friedrich Thelemann , also Karl (born September 4, 1811 in Aschaffenburg , † April 4, 1889 in Karlsruhe ), was a German garden architect .

Warm dam in Wiesbaden

Career

Thelemann was appointed garden architect at the Botanical Garden in St. Petersburg in 1839 and moved to Wiesbaden in 1846 as Ducal Nassau garden inspector .

His first tasks here were the redesign of the spa park in the English style with a pond and fountain , as well as the installation of the so-called bowling green in front of the spa house .

In 1853 he was given the task of redesigning the Biebrich Castle Park , making its greenhouses the starting point for the first international horticultural exhibition in 1861 . In 1868 the greenhouses he looked after were sold to the city of Frankfurt am Main and formed the basis of the palm garden . Thelemann succeeded in completing the Biebrich plant collection again through trips abroad.

In parallel, Thelemann had taken on the task in the years 1850-1855, the facilities at Schloss Schaumburg near Limburg an der Lahn to redesign and was also in 1854 with the management of spa facilities in Wiesbaden, Schlangenbad , Schwalbach and Ems entrusted .

In the years between 1856 and 1860, the redesign of the park facilities at Warmen Damm took place and from 1862 to 1865 the creation of general plans for the design of the city of Wiesbaden and its surroundings. At the same time, Thelemann took care of the construction of the Ladeschen park and gardens in Geisenheim between 1861 and 1863 .

literature

• Clemens Weiler, Romantic Architecture in Nassau , in: Nassau. Annals 63, 1952, 264f.

Web links

• Thelemann, Karl Friedrich. Hessian biography. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).