Heinrich Ludwig Manger

Heinrich Ludwig Manger

Heinrich Ludwig Manger (born July 31, 1728 in Kitzscher near Leipzig ; † April 30, 1790 in Potsdam ) was a German architect and royal Prussian building official (Oberhofbaurat and gardening inspector) and pomologist .

Life

The son of the art gardener Johann Ludwig Manger the Elder. Ä. and Maria Sophie, née Keutel, was a student of the master builder and governor Johann Gottfried Schmiedlein (1696–1755) in Leipzig. In addition, he took lessons in drawing, mathematics and physics at the local university in 1748. In 1753 he entered the royal service as a conductor in the Potsdamer Baukontor after a promised position in the engineering corps with General von Fürstenhoff in Dresden had failed. At the same time Manger learned the carpentry and bricklaying trade. On July 6, 1762 he married Anna Katharina Plümicke (1736–1798), the daughter of the ferryman in Nedlitz and since 1736 bailiff in Fahrland Christian Gottlieb Plümicke (1697–1761). Six children emerged from this marriage, including the daughter Hedwig Charlotte (1767–1833) and the sons Hans Karl, founder of the Potsdam Economic Society, and Heinrich Konrad, town planning officer and royal government building officer in Wroclaw. The son of Heinrich Konrad Manger, Heinrich Gustav Julius (1802–1874) continued the family tradition and became an architect and professor for building construction theory in Berlin and Breslau.

A year later Manger was appointed building inspector in 1763 and building director in 1775. He came among the important artists of the Frederician Rococo . In the 1760s he was assigned to work on the construction of the New Palace in Potsdam. Due to disputes with Frederick the Great , who accused him of bad management and unfaithfulness in office, he was imprisoned in 1786 and only rehabilitated after Frederick's death in the same year by his successor on the Prussian throne, Friedrich Wilhelm II . On January 7, 1787, the new king gave him the title of senior court building officer and on February 2, 1787, the office of garden inspector. On July 19, 1787, he received a written instruction for his new duties in the garden inspection, in which it says among other things: "[...] that the main occupation of the manager [...] consists of all royal. Gardens, plantations and avenues in such a way to carry supervision and care that he not only directs and maintains the whole gardening, all plantings and driving activities [...] but also urges the gardeners to do their duty [...] and all garden buildings , Pleasure and driving houses takes constant care [...]. ”Manger had no horticultural training in the classical sense, but since 1768 he has been intensively involved in fruit growing ( pomology ) out of his own interest .

In addition to numerous barracks, including the building in Elisabethstrasse (today part of Charlottenstrasse) for the 2nd and 3rd Guard Battalions, whose rooms were occupied by the Guard Jäger Battalion in 1864 , Manger also built town houses and was involved in the renovation of the Potsdam city canal and its bridges as well as in the foundation work on Wilhelmplatz (today Platz der Einheit), which sank again and again due to the boggy soil and damaged surrounding houses. He also built the 55 colonist houses of the Nowawes extension in 1764 .

Grave of Ludwig Manger in the Bornstedt cemetery

Heinrich Ludwig Manger, who had an insight into the Potsdam building office from 1753 until his death in 1790 (from 1797 Oberhofbauamt), published several volumes on the building history of the royal seat. 1783–1786 a volume appeared under the title Message from the new foundation for a number of houses in Potsdam on a former swamp . He published three further volumes, Contribution to Practical Architecture , in 1783, 1786 and posthumously in 1801 and 1789, the work of Heinrich Ludewig Manger's Building History of Potsdam, especially under the reign of King Frederick the Second . These publications and preserved building files, which Manger did not destroy against an express order from Frederick the Great, but archived in his private house, have preserved valuable information on the building history of Potsdam and the activities of the Prussian king as a client.

Heinrich Ludwig Manger died in Potsdam in 1790 and found his final resting place in the Bornstedt cemetery . His successor was his son-in-law, Oberhofbauratier Johann Gottlob Schulze , who had married Manger's daughter Hedwig Charlotte, Lady of the Order of Louis , in 1767 .

See also

• List of pomologists

literature

• M. von Oesfeld:  Manger, Heinrich Ludwig . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 20, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1884, p. 189 f.

Web links

Commons : Heinrich Ludwig Manger  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Literature by and about Heinrich Ludwig Manger in the catalog of the German National Library
• Manger building history of Potsdam , 1789

Individual evidence

1. ^ ^{A b} Karlheinz Deisenroth: Märkische gravege in courtly splendor. The Bornstedt cemetery in Potsdam . Berlin 2003, p. 88.
2. ↑ Max von Oesfeld: Manger, Heinrich Ludwig . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie, Volume 20, Leipzig 1884, p. 190.
3. ↑ General Directorate of the Prussian Palaces and Gardens Foundation Berlin-Brandenburg (ed.): Preußisch Grün. Court gardener in Brandenburg-Prussia. Henschel Verlag, Berlin 2004, page 58.
4. ↑ Confirmed on January 16, 1816, cf. Louis Schneider: The Prussian orders, decorations and awards, historical, figurative and statistical. The Louisen Order. Hayn's Erben, Berlin 1867, documents, regesta and directories, p. 7 ( digital , accessed on February 11, 2020).