Ferdinand Tutenberg
Ferdinand Tutenberg (born May 27, 1874 in Braunschweig , † March 12, 1956 in Oberursel ) was a German garden designer and garden director. His main work is the Volkspark in Hamburg-Altona .
Life
The son of the art and commercial gardener Fritz Tutenberg completed an apprenticeship in a commercial gardening company in Braunschweig from 1888 to 1892. Until 1899 he worked as an assistant in Salzuflen, Dortmund and Düsseldorf, among others. After his military service in Strasbourg he became an assistant in Zweibrücken; two years as a senior helper in the royal garden in Herrenhausen near Hanover followed . He then worked in Stuttgart and Oberursel, from 1899 as a garden technician in Mainz, where he received his first award for a garden design as part of the General German Horticultural Exhibition.
In April 1905, Tutenberg took the position of city gardener in Offenbach am Main and built up a garden administration and a city nursery that did not exist. As such, he proved himself in the redesign of Dreieich-Park and, after he had passed the garden architecture test with the grade "very good" at the Höhere Gärtner-Lehranstalt in Köstritz in 1909 , in 1911 in the creation of today's Leonhard-Eißnert-Park ; in May 1911 he moved to Bochum as a gardening inspector .
On April 1, 1913, Tutenberg succeeded Wilhelm Holtz (1846–1912) as gardening director in the city of Altona in order to organize the German Horticultural Exhibition on the occasion of the city's 250th anniversary (1914). At the same time he began planning the Altonaer Volkspark , which today is the largest public green space in Hamburg with 115 hectares . The construction was carried out in three stages; shortly before the outbreak of war , work began on the 14 hectare main part of the park, which was opened to the public in the summer of 1915. Despite a two-and-a-half year break, further parts were opened in 1920.
In his garden designs, Tutenberg combined aspects of recreational activities and public health with an ideological upgrading of nature ("forest park") and thus followed the contemporary conception of large park creations. The poor social situation, in particular the cramped living conditions of large sections of the population, should be counteracted by creating new types of green spaces that made play and sport possible. Aesthetic aspects took a back seat , similar to Leberecht Migge ; Tutenberg decidedly rejected geometric elements, as they were still common in the art park of the early 20th century. In his concept, the respective natural landscape conditions and the materials found should be decisive for the design of green spaces.
His design intentions coincided with the socio-political and urban planning goals of the Lord Mayors Bernhard Schnackenburg and Max Brauer as well as the Senators for Construction Friedrich Sylvester and Gustav Oelsner (the latter, like Brauer, in office from 1924). Until 1933, in addition to realizing the “green rings” in Altona and designing the banks of the Elbe, the realization of numerous details in the Volkspark Tutenberg remained the main task.
The National Socialist " seizure of power " made new specifications for the purpose and design of green spaces; From 1934 the Volkspark was to be used more for forestry . Arguments with his new superiors worsened Tutenberg's health; In 1934, according to other sources not until 1937, he was retired .
Tutenberg retired to southern Hesse, little is known about his subsequent life. His son Fritz , born in Mainz in 1902, received his doctorate in musicology in Kiel in 1927 and worked as an opera director at the Hamburg and Altona city theaters until he moved to the Chemnitz Opera House as senior director in autumn 1933 . Ferdinand Tutenberg's main work received late recognition: The Altonaer Volkspark was placed under monument protection in 2002; an artificial mountain cone in it is popularly called "Tutenberg".
Tutenberg was buried in the Altona cemetery.
Fonts
- F. Tutenberg , the organizer of the Third German Horticultural Week and Horticultural Exhibition in Altona, in: Möller's Deutsche Gärtner-Zeitung , Ludwig Möller, Erfurt, 29th year, issue 26, 1914, p. 309
literature
- Fritz [sic!] Tutenberg. For his 40th professional anniversary. In: Die Gartenwelt , 32nd year 1928, p. 208.
- Paul Th. Hoffmann: Neues Altona 1919–1929. Ten years of building a major German city. 2 volumes, Eugen Diederichs, Jena 1929, volume 2, p. 583 f.
- Christoph Timm: Gustav Oelsner and the new Altona. Municipal architecture and urban planning in the Weimar Republic. Kabel, Hamburg 1984, ISBN 3-921909-27-9 .
- Lars Ruge: 75 years of Volkspark Altona. A park guide. (Ed. by the Hamburg environmental authority) Hamburg 1995.
- Michael Breckwoldt: Ferdinand Tutenberg. In: Adrian von Buttlar , Margita Marion Meyer (Hrsg.): Historical gardens in Schleswig-Holstein. 2nd edition, Westholsteinische Verlagsanstalt Boysen, Heide 1998, ISBN 3-8042-0790-1 , p. 675.
Web links
Father of the Volkspark: Ferdinand Tutenberg. Biography on ndr.de
Individual evidence
- ^ A b c F. Tutenberg in the Deutsche Gärtner-Zeitung .
- ↑ Lis schoolmaster: Hessian state trade show laid the foundation stone for Dreieichpark. In: op-online.de. June 15, 2009, accessed July 24, 2015 .
- ^ State Office for the Preservation of Monuments Hesse (Ed.): Gefallenendenkmal In: DenkXweb, online edition of cultural monuments in Hesse .
- ^ The Association of German Garden Artists 1887–1906. In: German Society for Garden Art and Landscape Culture. Landesverband Hamburg / Schleswig-Holstein eV (Ed.): Annual issue 2011–2012. , Page 14; PDF file (4.49 MB).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Tutenberg, Ferdinand |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German landscape gardener |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 27, 1874 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Braunschweig |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 12, 1956 |
| Place of death | Oberursel (Taunus) |