Heinrich Siesmayer

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Franz Heinrich Siesmayer (1817–1900)
Sebastian Rinz (1782–1861)

Franz Heinrich Siesmayer (born April 26, 1817 on the sand near Mainz, Hesse ; † December 22, 1900 in Frankfurt am Main ) was a German gardener, commercial gardener and garden architect who, among other things, is considered the creator of the Frankfurt Palm Garden .

Life

Catalog Gebrüder Siesmayer

Heinrich Siesmayer grew up in Groß-Karben and in 1832 did an apprenticeship with the gardeners Sebastian and Jakob Rinz, who came from Munich and had been in the service of the Free City of Frankfurt since 1806 , in Wiesbaden ( city ​​palace ), Biebrich ( palace ) and in Frankfurt Executed orders.

Since 1837, his father, Philipp Marie Siesmayer from Niederselters, had leased a property in Bockenheim near Frankfurt. Heinrich Siesmayer moved here in 1840 to offer horticultural work. He bought the property with his older brother Nikolaus, who had returned from England, and took his father into the “Gebrüder Siesmayer” business until his death in 1866. Nikolaus was in charge of the plant cultures, Heinrich devoted himself to the care of manorial gardens and slowly trained himself to be a horticultural artist. The Siesmayer brothers laid out the Palmengarten , the Kurfürstenplatz in Bockenheim, the cemetery in Ginnheimer Landstrasse, the garden of the Lersner Castle in Nieder-Erlenbach and, above all, the large Bad Nauheim spa gardens. For this work he was made an honorary citizen of Bad Nauheim and at the same time a court garden engineer and court supplier to the Hessian grand dukes. Dr. Heinrich von Brunck , Chairman of the Board of Management of BASF, commissioned the Siesmayer brothers with the planning and execution of his palace gardens in Kirchheimbolanden , still one of the most beautiful natural gardens in southwest Germany.

Memorial stone in Frankfurt-Goldstein

When Frankfurt and the Duchy of Nassau were annexed by Prussia after the Austro-Prussian War in 1866 , Duke Adolph von Nassau sold the plant collection that had remained in his private property along with the extensive greenhouses and world-famous winter gardens. From exile he could no longer look after her intensively and was forced to dissolve it. Heinrich Siesmayer, who had previously also designed many parks in Mannheim, was commissioned to dissolve his collection. Siesmayer managed to win the Frankfurt Society over to buy plants and an idea for a winter garden . In the spring of 1868 he was finally able to interest the Association for the Promotion of Public Transport Life in buying the plants from the greenhouses in Biebrich Gardens. During this time Heinrich Siesmayer traveled with members of the planning committee through France, Belgium and England to collect ideas for his project. On May 6, 1868, a committee was formed to acquire the Biebrich Wintergarten , and this date is also considered the founding day of the Frankfurt Palm Garden, of which he was first director from 1868 to 1886. In 1877, Siesmayer also designed the Rothschildschen Grüneburgpark . According to his plans, the Luisenpark Mannheim was laid out between 1892 and 1903 . The original design by Siesmayer only exists in parts in the lower Luisenpark. The upper Luisenpark was completely changed for the 1975 Federal Garden Show . Today the park is considered one of the most beautiful parks in Europe.

In 1888 Heinrich Siesmayer wrote his will with far-reaching consequences. In 1892 Heinrich Siesmayer wrote a book entitled From my life . Siesmayer is buried in the New Bockenheimer Friedhof . The effects of the First World War quickly led his company to economic collapse. In Bad Nauheim, his son Philipp Siesmayer was able to work as a technical advisor until his death in 1935.

Siesmayer was a member of the Frankfurt Warrior Comradeship and was mostly responsible for the hall decorations at official comradeship celebrations.

rating

Heinrich Siesmayer is regarded as a great art and commercial gardener at the turn of a feudal-private economy and a bourgeois-communal economy. In addition to the parks in Bad Nauheim, he created the parks in Bad Homburg vor der Höhe and Wiesbaden . The park of the Kempinski Hotel Falkenstein was also designed by him and has since been restored according to his original plans.

family

Heinrich Siesmayer had with his wife Elisabeth "Elise" Siesmayer, geb. Klees (October 21, 1838 - February 11, 1872; the Elisabethenhain in Bad Vilbel is named after her) nine daughters and three sons, including Ferdinand Siesmayer (1868–1944), who was responsible for the commercial part of the Siesmayer brothers , Josef Siesmayer (1866–1940), who would have been responsible for the plant cultures, but left the company in 1902, and Philipp Siesmayer (1862–1935), who took over the design part.

His grandson Heinrich Siesmayer (1895–1965; Philipp Siesmayer's son) married Edith Dannhof (1906–2001), a daughter of Frankfurt city director Adolf Dannhof (1880–1956) and descendant of the grand ducal court instrument maker Carl August Müller (1804–1870).

The court garden director of the Tauride Garden in Saint Petersburg , Karl Friedrich von Siesmayer (1821–1902), was his brother.

Street names

There are several streets in Germany that are named after Heinrich Siesmayer or the Siesmayer family:

Works

Busts and sculptures

  • Sculpture in Bad Nauheim

  • Bust in the palm garden

  • Heinrich Siesmayer burial site, Neuer Friedhof, Ffm Bockenheim

  • Bust on his grave

  • Grave plaque

Awards

  • 1871: Honorary citizen of the city of Bad Nauheim
  • 1873: Grand Ducal Hessian Order of Merit (Knight's Cross 1st Class)
  • 1996 (posthumously): Dedication of the rose "Heinrich Siesmayer"

literature

  • Franz Heinrich Siesmayer: Memoirs . Edited by Thorsten Reuter and Peter Althainz. Books on Demand, January 2007
  • Eugen Caspary, Robert Spitzlay: Franz Heinrich Siesmayer, 1817–1900. The life path of a great art and commercial gardener at the turn between the feudal-private-economy and the bourgeois-communal economy . Selters 1983
  • Barbara Vogt: Franz Heinrich Siesmayer (1817–1900) (Biographies of European Garden Artists), in: Stadt und Grün , 48 (1999), No. 2, pp. 105–111
  • Barbara Vogt: Siesmayer's Gardens . Publisher: KulturRegion FrankfurtRheinMain gGmbH. Societäts-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2009, ISBN 978-3-7973-1151-1
  • Clemens Alexander Wimmer:  Siesmayer, Franz Heinrich. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 24, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-428-11205-0 , p. 386 f. ( Digitized version ).
  • Heinrich Siesmayer: From my life. Life memories. Frankfurt a. M. 1892 (original edition, can be borrowed from various libraries via interlibrary loan)
  • Herbert J. Lohrum: SIESMAYER / SUESSMEYER. From the brittle counter at the Brunnen zu Niederselters to the art gardeners on the Rhine and Main. The 200-year history of an art gardener family with special consideration of professional and regional historical aspects (2015).
  • Herbert J. Lohrum: 90 years of the Siesmayer brothers. A company story to commemorate the 200th birthday of the horticultural artist Heinrich Siesmayer (2017).

Web links

Commons : Heinrich Siesmayer  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Wiener Illustrierte Garten-Zeitung , Volume 26, February 1901, p. 61.
  2. ↑ New were the generous paths in FAZ of December 6, 2017, page 43.
  3. ↑ Hessisches Hauptstaatsarchiv Wiesbaden (HHStAW) Dept. 469/6, No. 8128 (last will of the art gardener Heinrich Siesmayer)
  4. ↑ Won 5, row 17, no. 9/10. Signpost to the graves of well-known personalities in Frankfurt cemeteries . Frankfurt am Main 1985, p. 52.
  5. ^ Roet de Rouet, Henning: Frankfurt am Main as a Prussian garrison from 1866 to 1914. Frankfurt am Main 2016. P. 145.
personal data
SURNAME Siesmayer, Heinrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Siesmayer, Franz Heinrich (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German gardener, commercial gardener and garden architect
DATE OF BIRTH April 26, 1817
PLACE OF BIRTH near Mainz Hessen
DATE OF DEATH 22nd December 1900
Place of death Frankfurt am Main