Eduard Neide

Eduard Heinrich Neide (born August 1, 1818 in Magdeburg , † August 28, 1883 in Charlottenburg near Berlin) was a German garden architect and royal Prussian garden director.

family

He was a grandson of Johann Georg Christoph Neide and the youngest son of the doctor Friedrich August Neide and his wife Maria Neide . He married on May 17, 1856 in Berlin ( Ev. Petrikirche ) Anna Margarethe Nitze (* Berlin April 22, 1837, † Charlottenburg August 14, 1908). The older daughter, Margarethe Dorothea Luise (* Charlottenburg August 4, 1860, † Wernigerode) was married (May 1, 1886 Garrison Parish Spandau) to Lieutenant Richard von Lessel (* Erfurt July 23, 1853, † Wernigerode), the brother of Emil von Lessel . The younger daughter, Marie Henriette Auguste (* Charlottenburg June 15, 1861, † unknown) remained unmarried and last lived in Berlin.

education and profession

Eduard Neide attended, like his grandfather and his father, the cathedral grammar school in Magdeburg , but probably without a degree, so that his father, in response to his son's horticultural inclinations, initially placed him in the care of his horticultural uncle, Anton Jacob. Perhaps on the occasion of a doctor's home visit by his father to Johann Gottlob Nathusius , Eduard Neide recognized his destiny in view of the Althaldensleben tree nurseries run by Nathusius . He continued his training in Potsdam and Berlin and undertook an information trip through Belgium and England before he entered the service of the Royal Animal Gardens , where he worked his way up from gardening to the position of head gardener, garden inspector and zoo director to the royal garden director.

Eduard Neide was, as noted in several sources cited here, a pupil of the royal Prussian general gardening director Peter Joseph Lenné (1789–1866).

Works

In the book Executed Gardens of 1884, Tiergarten head gardener Hermann Geitner (1848–1905) posthumously describes ten works created by Eduard Neide, mostly with colored plans.

These include Königsplatz and Luiseninsel in public works in Berlin . Furthermore, the design of the garden areas of the colonnaded courtyard in front of the Alte Nationalgalerie in Berlin goes back to the planning of Eduard Neide, which also included the design of the Vierpassbrunnen . He had already used this geometric shape for the two fountains on Königsplatz.

A handwritten drawing by Neides in the form of a photograph made by Titzenthaler in 1930 has been preserved of the layout of the Königsplaztes

From the book by Geitner [2] and the obituary by Kurtz [1] it emerges that Eduard Neide works far beyond the borders of Berlin, including in Saarbrücken ( Halberg Castle ), in Hamburg and often in Silesia (including Pless , Fürstenstein , Wallwitz ) was; so also in the former Lower Silesian Herzogswaldau in the district of Lüben (today Lubin / Poland), where he planned the design of the park for Dittersbach Castle for the owner of the secret Oberhof printing house , von Decker .

In the Oderbruch he created the park for Johann Gottlieb Koppe in his domain Wollup , which can still be seen in rudiments today.

In 1856 Gustav Gans zu Putlitz commissioned Eduard Neide with the beautification of the manor park of Retzin Castle in Prignitz .

Also in Prignitz, Eduard Neide designed the Hoppenrade estate for the family (von) Freyer as early as 1847 , and although "the whole complex suffered badly due to agricultural use after the land reform, one can still feel Neide's high art". The park is now a listed building, but it is threatened by nature conservation issues in the form of a beaver. In the meantime, the beaver has asserted itself against the monument protection.

In the middle of the 19th century, together with Peter Josef Lenné , Neide redesigned the Trebnitz (Mark) Castle Park, which was built around 1730, as a landscape park.

The park , which goes back to the planning of Eduard Neide and was implemented by court gardener Herrmann Sigismund Neumann and designed jointly for the two Elbschlösser Schloss Albrechtsberg (Dresden) and Lingnerschloss , still exists .

Together with Heinrich Gaerdt, Eduard Neide had been editor of Wredow's Gartenfreund since at least 1859 . Instructions for upbringing and treating the plants in the flower, vegetable and fruit garden in living rooms, greenhouses and hotbeds as well as the trees and ornamental shrubs in the open country .

Others

In his marriage and death certificate, the first names Friedrich Hermann Eduard are given. Eduard Neide last lived in house number 4 on Berliner Strasse , today Strasse des 17. Juni , in Charlottenburg. It should have been the Thiergartenhof, as it is drawn in the plan from 1893 at the corner of Bachstrasse, which at that time represented the border between Charlottenburg and Berlin in this area, and was still there in 1921. At the latest when Charlottenburger Chaussee and Berliner Straße were widened to 85 m during the Third Reich in the course of the creation of the "East-West axis" , the building should have been demolished.

literature

• Hermann Geitner (Hrsg.): Executed gardens by Eduard Neide. P. Parey, Berlin 1884. (digitized version)

References and comments

1. ^ Obituary by Kurtz in Gartenzeitung 1883, p. 453 f. archive.org
2. ↑ H. Geitner: Executed gardens by E. Neide. (deutsche-digitale-bibliothek.de)
3. ↑ Internet presence of the National Museums in Berlin "Kolonnadenhof" smb.museum
4. ↑ http://www.landesarchiv-berlin-bilddatenbank.de/hida4web-LAB/search?keyword=+Neide&smode=simple#
5. ↑ The von Decker family at Schlesische Kunstsammlungen schlesischesammlungen.eu
6. ↑ Photos on the Letschin municipality letschin.de website
7. ^ Geocaching description geocaching.com
8. ↑ from Freyer Foundation denkmalschutz.de
9. ↑ Monumente-online 2008 monumente-online.de
10. ↑ Förderverein Landschaftspark Hoppenrade landschaftspark-hoppenrade.de
11. ↑ Märkische Allgemeine: Hope for the Hoppenrade Park maz-online.de
12. ↑ https://www.svz.de/regionales/brandenburg/biber-nagt-im-gutspark-hoppenrade-id16006421.html
13. ^ Georg Dehio: Handbook of German Art Monuments. Brandenburg. Deutscher Kunstverlag GmbH Munich Berlin, 2000
14. ↑ Lingnerschloss website: The outdoor facilities and the park lingnerschloss.de ( Memento of the original dated September 2, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
15. ↑ Encyclothek: Der Gartenfreund enzyklothek.de
16. ^ Address book of Charlottenburg 1883 digital.zlb.de
17. ↑ City map from 1893 alt-berlin.info
18. ↑ City map from 1921 alt-berlin.info