Friedrich Juergens

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Friedrich Joachim Christian Jürgens (born August 23, 1825 in Lübeck ; † October 11, 1903 in Ottensen ) was a German gardener and bank director.

Live and act

Friedrich Jürgens came from a gardener family in Lübeck. His father died when Friedrich Juergens was a teenager. His mother taught him drawing, botany, English and French privately. He was confirmed at the age of 14. Then he went to St. Petersburg . Here he received commercial training in an office that belonged to a German who owned a large machine factory. Jürgens showed a particular interest in construction technology and was considered to be mathematically gifted. His teacher made it possible for him to visit a polytechnic for a year. Then Jürgens returned to the training company, where he got a job as an engineer. After the factory was destroyed by fire, Jürgens returned to Lübeck in 1842 at the request of his mother. At the age of 16 he did a three-year apprenticeship in the nursery Steltzner & Schmalz Nachfl. of the art gardener Johann Christian Wilhelm Hartwig. After completing his apprenticeship, he went on a one-year study trip through Germany, Belgium and England.

In 1845, Jürgens moved to Altona , where he worked as a senior assistant in the nursery CWE Putzcke . His first work a year later consisted of the Fährhausgarten on Steinwerder Island . The nursery received so many other orders that Jürgens went into business for himself in 1847. In addition to his company headquarters in Ottensen, he took over the existing Geritz tree nursery and continued it as Geritz's successor in Nienstedten. There he raised large tree solitaires , which he used to create space and decorate gardens. Jürgens became internationally known through several major projects: in 1863 he designed the zoological garden in Hamburg . He was particularly known for the International Horticultural Exhibition in 1869 , which took place on the Stintfang . Jürgens curated the event and carried it out.

His son Rudolph Jürgens took over the landscape gardening in Ottensen in 1876. Friedrich Juergens kept the tree nursery in Nienstedten himself. In 1890 he took part in the horticultural exhibition in Berlin . On 1200 square meters, he showed 196 tree solitaires in 84 varieties, which represented a significant logistical effort.

Gardens and parks

Jürgens refrained from creating formal elements of the gardens close to houses. In his facilities he used large, elongated clearings, different points of view of water. He highlighted the local vegetation and paid attention to the color of the vegetation in autumn. The gardener designed parks for many houses and villas in Hamburg and Schleswig-Holstein. In most cases, only partial areas have been preserved; Documentation and research on this is incomplete or not available.

In 1856, Jürgens designed a park for Carl Hermann Merck , the area of ​​which is now known as the Hessepark . He also put on parks for the country houses of Robert Flor (1794–1874) in Dockenhuden and Georg Friedrich Vorwerk in Flottbek. Next to the de Vos country house garden in Itzehoe , which is now the city park there. Wilhelm Amsinck had Martin Haller build a representative house for his country estate in Lokstedt in 1868/70 . Jürgens laid out the associated English landscape garden. After 1956, part of it became the public Amsinckpark . In addition to the estate gardens in Meischenstorf (district of Wangels ), which were created in 1866, he rebuilt the gardens of Breitenburg Castle from 1882 to 1884 . Further systems can be found in the Rhineland and Saxony.

The parks and grounds Friedrich and Rudolph Jürgens are sometimes incorrectly assigned in documents.

Acting as a bank director

Since his father died early, his mother had become a widow at a young age. For this reason, Jürgens had founded a gardeners widow's fund in 1852, for which he worked until the end of his life. After handing over his gardening business to his son Rudolph in 1876, Friedrich Jürgens became Ottensen's mayor for 6 years from 1877. Since he was not re-elected, he took over the administration of the state fire fund. From 1891 he held a leading position in the management of the Ottenser Bank. When he died he was a bank manager.

Honor

The Jürgensallee in Othmarschen and Nienstedten has been a reminder of Friedrich Jürgens since 1903 .

literature

  • Karin von Behr: Jürgens, Friedrich . In: Franklin Kopitzsch, Dirk Brietzke (Hrsg.): Hamburgische Biographie . tape 2 . Christians, Hamburg 2003, ISBN 3-7672-1366-4 , pp. 202-203 .
  • Christian Koopmann: The seniors of the Hamburg-Altonaer Handelsgärtner , in: Max Hesdörffer (Ed.): Die Gartenwelt , VII. Jg., Issue 16, Carl Schmidt & Co, Leipzig 1903 pp. 186–192

Remarks

  1. ^ A b Christian Koopmann: The seniors of the Hamburg-Altonaer commercial gardeners , pp. 187–188
  2. ^ Ingrid A. Schubert: The Amsinck Park in Lokstedt , No. 1 of the series of publications of the Society for the Promotion of Garden Culture , 1996/2005.
personal data
SURNAME Juergens, Friedrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Jürgens, Friedrich Joachim Christian (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German gardener and bank director
DATE OF BIRTH August 23, 1825
PLACE OF BIRTH Lübeck
DATE OF DEATH October 11, 1903
Place of death Ottensen