Heinrich Hillebrecht
Heinrich Friedrich Adolf Hillebrecht (own name: Friedrich Hillebrecht; * January 5, 1846 in Arnum , † October 30, 1918 in Düsseldorf ) was a Düsseldorf city gardener . He developed and shaped the city's green spaces for over three decades . Numerous squares and parks in Düsseldorf still bear his signature today, even if in some cases in a different form.
Life
Hillebrecht was born in Arnum in 1846. At the age of 15 he began an apprenticeship as a gardener in nearby Hanover . His journeyman years took him to the Rhineland , but also to Paris and London. After the Franco-German War in 1870/71 he returned to Hanover, where he worked as a freelance gardener. Hillebrecht was informed of a vacancy in Düsseldorf by his uncle, who worked as a city gardener in Benrath . On June 1, 1876, he joined the city as head gardener. In 1879, at the age of almost 33 and without formal training as a landscape architect, he followed the gardening director Oscar Hering as head of the Düsseldorf garden administration. In the following three decades Hillebrecht had a decisive influence on the cityscape with his plans for squares and green spaces. His activity coincided with a great urban expansion. While Düsseldorf had around 80,000 inhabitants when Hillebrecht took office, when he retired in 1910, 360,000, it was more than four times as many. Garden architect Walter von Engelhardt became head of the garden administration in 1906 . Hillebrecht died eight years after retiring in 1918.
While the urban green spaces at the beginning of Hillebrecht's activity consisted mainly of the parks such as the Hofgarten or the Schwanenspiegel that Maximilian Weyhe had laid out on the areas of the former fortifications , the rapid expansion of the city made large-scale new gardening necessary. As the top city gardener, Hillebrecht designed numerous horticultural systems for squares and streets in the new residential areas. Essentially, the facilities around Goltsteinstrasse in the city center and Ostpark have survived unchanged to this day . The Corneliusplatz at the beginning of the Königsallee will be restored to its original state after the construction of the underground . Many of the streets and squares designed by Hillebrecht still shape the cityscape today.
Plant in Düsseldorf (selection)
- Corneliusplatz , the beginning of the Königsallee
- Goltsteinparterre in the courtyard garden and jewelry plant along Goltsteinstrasse
- Clever Platz (today's Kolpingplatz ) in Pempelfort (see also Klever Straße )
- Hermannplatz in Flingern
- Church square in Friedrichstadt
- Lessingplatz in Oberbilk
- Spichernplatz in Derendorf
- Park around the Ständehaus
- Redesign of the Flora Park
- Greening of the Düssel on Karolinger and Prinz-Georg-Straße
- Design of the first section of the Volksgarten
- East Park
literature
- Düsseldorf yearbook. Contributions to the history of the Lower Rhine . Volume 77, Droste, Düsseldorf 2007, ISBN 978-3-7700-3053-8 , p. 191 ff.
Individual evidence
- ↑ The life data of Heinrich Hillebrecht In: online-ofb.de
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Hillebrecht, Heinrich |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Hillebrecht, Heinrich Friedrich Adolf |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | City gardener in Düsseldorf |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 5, 1846 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Arnum |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 30, 1918 |
| Place of death | Dusseldorf |