Georg Bose

Georg Bose

Georg Bose (born January 25, 1650 in Leipzig ; † July 23, 1700 there ) was an important Leipzig merchant and councilor .

Life

Georg Bose was the son of Johann Ernst Bose (1612–1681). In 1660 he had received the electoral privilege to operate a gold and silver goods factory in Leipzig. In it gold and silver wire was produced, processed into various trimmings and these were finally traded. This ensured the family's prosperity and membership of the Leipzig patriciate . Georg Bose also joined the manufactory.

From 1685, his brother Caspar Bose had the garden in the eastern suburbs of Leipzig, which he inherited, transformed into the first of the city's large baroque gardens . Emulating him, Georg Bose bought a garden in the floodplain west of the city and had it converted into an ornamental garden in 1693. To distinguish between the two gardens, they were named according to their proportions, Caspar's garden as the Greater Bosian and Georg's as the Little Bosian garden .

As councilor of the city, Georg Bose took over the honorary post of head of the St. Georgen kennel, madhouse and orphanage in 1692 . During this time the facility on Johannisplatz had become too small, and a larger one was to be built within the city walls. With energy and tireless zeal, Bose ran the construction at the eastern end of the Brühl and raised money for it. He himself drafted the plan and directed the construction, which he unfortunately could not see completion. His successor, Councilor Johann Ernst Kregel von Sternbach, completed the construction of the Georgenhaus a year later, in 1701 .

Bose was also very involved in the church. The Leipzig Franciscan Monastery of the Holy Spirit was closed after the Reformation and its church was used as a warehouse by Leipzig merchants from the middle of the 16th century. Bose worked to restore the building as a church. It is a large part thanks to him that in 1699 the building of extensions and conversions under the name New Church (from 1876 Matthäikirche ) was opened again.

In the plague year of 1680, Georg Bose was a founding member of the charitable society of confidants .

In 1898 the street that arose on the axis of the Kleinbosischer Garten after its development was named Bosestrasse.

literature

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• Karsten Güldner, Rolf Haupt (ed.): 800 years of St. Georg in Leipzig. From the hospital of the Canons' Monastery of St. Thomas to the medical and social center. Leipziger Universitäts-Verlag, Leipzig 2011. ISBN 978-3-86583-563-5
• Gina Klank, Gernot Griebsch: Lexicon of Leipzig street names . Verlag im Wissenschaftszentrum Leipzig, Leipzig 1995. ISBN 3-930433-09-5 , p. 39.
• Birthe Rüdiger: The Bose Gardens in Leipzig in written sources and contemporary representations. A tribute to the 300th anniversary of the death of Georg and Caspar Bose . In: Die Gartenkunst  13 (1/2001), pp. 130–156.
• Kerstin Wiese, Anja Fritz: Bach's Neighbors - The Bose Family = exhibition catalog of the Bach Museum Leipzig . Leipzig 2005. DNB 985253908

Web links

• Biogram Georg Bose in the Leipzig Lexicon