Franz Christian Schaumburg

Franz Christian Schaumburg (born April 27, 1788 in Kassel ; † February 18, 1868 in Hanover ) was a German horticultural artist .

Signs on Schaumburgstrasse in Hanover-Herrenhausen

Life

Christian Schaumburg's teenage years have so far been described “according to a sometimes uncertain family tradition”: He showed a talent for drawing flowers at an early age and attended the local painting academy in Vienna . Schaumburg “probably” completed an apprenticeship as a gardener in Vienna- Schönbrunn . He then devoted himself to garden art in Kassel - Wilhelmshöhe with Karl Steinhöfer .

Between 1809 and 1810 Christian Schaumburg came to Herrenhausen to paint flowers for Kassel. In the 1820s he worked as a gardener in the court gardening in Linden , the kitchen garden , and for the Altensche Gut .

In 1825, Schaumburg designed the park for Minister Caspar Detlev von Schulte for the Villa Bella Vista built by Georg Ludwig Friedrich Laves .

In the following year, Franz Christian Schaumburg was admitted to the Masonic Lodge Zur Ceder on February 16, 1826 under the matriculation number 247 , where he held the office of deputy secretary and archivist from 1834 to 1836 , then from 1836 to 1840 and from 1848 to 1850 of the master of ceremonies .

Within a few years, Schaumburg had become one of the most sought-after landscape gardeners in the Kingdom of Hanover . In northern Germany and Denmark in particular , he created gardens for his princely , aristocratic , private and municipal clients - preserving his style of zoned landscape garden for more than 40 years .

In 1827, Schaumburg - supported by Prince Adolphe Friedrich von Cambridge and Imperial Count Ernst zu Münster-Ledenburg - went on a study trip to England .

In 1829, at Schaumburg's suggestion, the horticultural association for the Kingdom of Hanover was founded.

The main work of Schaumburg in Hanover is the redesign and expansion of the Georgengarten, begun in 1835 together with Heinrich Ludolph Wendland and Laves, into a large landscape park on Herrenhäuser Allee . However, the free space allowed there by Schaumburg temporarily disappeared from 1837.

After Schaumburg had redesigned the Schlöner Schlosspark in 1838 in the service of the Danish-Norwegian King Christian VIII , he was appointed court garden inspector in Plön in 1840 .

In 1847, Schaumburg returned to Hanover, where, as head of the Georgengarten, he expanded it significantly until 1860. Other works by Schaumburg in Hanover include the redesign of the mountain garden .

Franz Christian Schaumburg was buried in the Herrenhausen cemetery .

Works

Gardens and parks

In Hannover

• 1820s: master gardener in the kitchen garden in Linden
• 1825: Park around Bella Vista
• around 1830: Redesign of the open space between Friedrichswall and Nothelfergraben into a narrow landscape park; the early stage of the Maschpark
• from 1835: Redesign and expansion of the Georgengarten
• Garden for A. von Arnswald
• Garden for the Countess von Wangenheim
• Design of Georgsplatz
• 1852: Design of the Opernplatz / Theaterplatz around the opera house with individual planted areas between curved paths
• Plans for the Prinzengarten and the Welfengarten around the newly created Welfenschloß
• Mountain garden

Others

Works as far as Holstein , Mecklenburg and southern Germany are ascribed to Franz Christian Schaumburg . The following are occupied:

• from 1838: Redesign of the palace gardens in Plön
• 1866: Drafts for the Bürgerpark in Bremen

Writings and plans

• About English gardens. In: Negotiations of the Horticultural Association for the Kingdom of Hanover , 1833, pp. 131–137
• About the current state of garden culture in Hanover and the surrounding area. In: Negotiations of the Horticultural Association for the Kingdom of Hanover , 1834, pp. 105–112, 131–135
• 1836: Chart of the Royal Wallmoden Garden and the adjacent properties, drawn by C. Schaumburg, 1836
• 1859: General plan of the new plant between Hanover and Herrhausen , the approval of Queen Marie found

Honors

• In honor of the Royal Court Garden Inspector, the historic Neustädter Strasse in Herrenhausen was renamed to Schaumburgstrasse in 1892 .

literature

• Dieter Lange: Herrenhausen - architecture in the garden district. In: Laves and Hanover. Lower Saxony architecture in the nineteenth century , ed. by Harold Hammer-Schenk and Günther Kokkelink (revised new edition of the publication Vom Schloss zum Bahnhof ... ), Ed. Libri Artis Schäfer, 1989, ISBN 3-88746-236-X , pp. 173-180
• Ronald Clark: Christian Schaumburg. In: "Back to nature". Idea and history of the Georgengarten in Hanover-Herrenhausen , booklet for the exhibition of the same name, organized by the Wilhelm-Busch-Gesellschaft eV and the Office for Green Space of the State Capital Hanover, Wilhelm-Busch-Museum Hanover, German Museum for Caricature and Critical Graphics May 18-27 July 1997, ed. by the Wilhelm-Busch-Gesellschaft eV and the Green Space Office of the State Capital Hanover 1997, Göttingen: Wallstein-Verlag, ISBN 3-89244-250-9 , pp. 51–55
• Ronald Clark: The origin of the Georgengarten , diploma thesis at the Institute for Green Planning and Garden Architecture at the University of Hanover , 1986
• Ronald Clark, Dieter Hennebo: From Wallmodengarten to Georgengarten. Comments on the first drafts by Ch. Schaumburg. In: Festschrift for Georg Hoeltje , ed. from the Institute for the History of Architecture and Art at the University of Hanover, Hanover 1988, p. 79ff.
• Hermann Wendland : The royal gardens at Herrenhausen near Hanover. A guide through them , Hanover 1852
• Rainer Schomann (Ed.), Urs Boeck : Historical Gardens in Lower Saxony , catalog for the state exhibition, opening on June 9, 2000 in the foyer of the Lower Saxony State Parliament, on the occasion of the state exhibition "Historical Gardens in Lower Saxony". Hannover, 2000, pp. 92-94
• Helmut Knocke , Hugo Thielen : Schaumburg , in Hanover Art and Culture Lexicon , passim
• Helmut Knocke: Schaumburg, Franz Christian. In: Dirk Böttcher, Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein, Hugo Thielen: Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2002, ISBN 3-87706-706-9 , p. 310f.
• Helmut Knocke: Schaumburg, Franz Christian. In: Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein (eds.) U. a .: City Lexicon Hanover . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2009, ISBN 978-3-89993-662-9 , p. 538.

Web links

Commons : Franz Christian Schaumburg  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t} Helmut Knocke: Schaumburg ... (see literature)
2. ↑ ^{a b c d e f} Dieter Lange: Herrenhausen - architecture in the garden district ... (see literature)
3. ^ Siegfried Schildmacher, Winfried Brinkmann, Edzard Bakker, Peter Rosenstein (ed.): Franz Christian Schaumburg . In Siegfried Schildmacher (Ed.): In the footsteps of the Freemasons - a walk through the streets of Hanover . Self-published, Hannover 2015, p. 120
4. ↑ Helmut Knocke: Schaumburg .... In: Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon (see literature)
5. ^ Helmut Knocke, Hugo Thielen: Friedrichswall. In: Hannover Art and Culture Lexicon , p. 112
6. ↑ Stefan Amt: 1852 - 2002 - 150 years of the opera house in Hanover , online ( memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. as a PDF document 
7. ^ Helmut Zimmermann : Schaumburgstrasse. In: The street names of the state capital Hanover , Verlag Hahnsche Buchhandlung , Hanover 1992, ISBN 3-7752-6120-6 , p. 218