Friedrich Wilhelm Wolff (architect)

Friedrich Wilhelm Wolff (born 1783 in Hohenziatz , Jerichower Land; died January 25, 1862 in Magdeburg ) was a German architect . He worked in Magdeburg's building administration for over 55 years, several of them as city planning director. The green spaces laid out under his leadership shape the Magdeburg cityscape to this day.

Wolff was trained as a construction conductor and entered the service of the city of Magdeburg in 1805.

Klosterbergegarten

Society house in Herrenkrug Park, 1940

In 1817 he received an order from Mayor August Wilhelm Francke to measure the Herrenkrug , which at the time was used for agricultural purposes and as an urban wooden reservoir. From 1818–24, under Wolff's direction, the Herrenkrug was redesigned into an agricultural and horticultural park. From 1825, under his leadership, the redesign of the Klosterbergegarten began to become the first public park in Germany, and from 1827 the construction of the north cemetery, today's north park . The original plans for all three plants went back to Peter Joseph Lenné . Wolff built the Society House at Klosterbergegarten in 1828 and 1829 based on designs by Karl Friedrich Schinkel, and the Society House in Herrenkrugpark in 1843/44 .

On the occasion of his retirement in 1861, a spherical sundial was installed in his honor in the Herrenkrugpark.

The gardens laid out under the direction of Friedrich Wilhelm Wolff still exist today. The community center at Klosterbergegarten was last extensively renovated in 2005. The society house in Herrenkrugpark was demolished at the end of the 1950s.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Information board on the building

Web links

• Friedrich Wilhelm Wolff , in: Magdeburger Biografien on the website of the University of Magdeburg, accessed on November 29, 2019

literature

• Heinz Gerling, Monuments of the City of Magdeburg, 1991
• Gisela Hoke, Herrenkrug. The development of a Magdeburg landscape park, 1991
• Heidemarie Titz, Parks of the City of Magdeburg, Vol. 1, 1994.