Hermann Mächtig
Hermann Mächtig (born August 18, 1837 in Breslau , † July 1, 1909 in Berlin ) was a German gardener and from 1878 until his death in 1909, city gardener in Berlin. He was significantly involved in the construction of Treptower Park , the Friedrichsfelde Central Cemetery , Pariser Platz and numerous other Berlin city squares.
Life
Hermann Mächtig received his training as a gardener in 1852/1853 in his native city of Breslau and from 1854 to 1856 at the Royal Gardening School at the Wildlife Park near Potsdam . From 1864 he first worked as a senior assistant in the Royal Gardens in Potsdam with Peter Joseph Lenné and Gustav Meyer , at the same time as a lecturer in landscape gardening (1865–1872). In 1870 he became court gardener in the Potsdam Gardens.
When the position of director of the “Deputation for the administration of the municipal parks, gardens and trees” in Berlin had to be filled due to the death of Gustav Meyer, Mächtig took over this position in 1878. In all his designs and realized gardens, Mächtig represented a landscape gardening style, according to which “public gardens” should serve as places of movement, relaxation, places of sociable entertainment, also the enjoyment of nature, education and the refinement of customs .
Parks and gardens according to plans by Mächtig (chronological)
- Participation in planning and development work in the Plänterwald (1873)
- Treptower Park (based on designs by Gustav Meyer, 1876–1888, cost 1.2 million marks)
- Pariser Platz (redesign in 1880)
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Zentralfriedhof Friedrichsfelde (until May 1881), where Mächtig worked with the Royal Horticultural Director Axel Fintelmann ; The Ohlsdorfer Friedhof in Hamburg, opened in 1877 and designed as a landscape park, served as a model .
After the completion of the new cemetery, a contemporary gave the following verdict: "A park of scenic beauty which, without missing the serious character of a burial place, is very inviting to visit the residents of Berlin and its eastern suburbs". - Church park St. Elisabeth (1881) in the Rosenthaler Vorstadt
- Leopoldplatz (1882–1887, 1893, 1906–1909)
- Senefelderplatz (1885)
- Wilhelmplatz and Zietenplatz , redesigned (around 1890) by Mächtig and Hermann Geitner
- Schloßstraße (Berlin-Charlottenburg) , (1885–1886) redesigned by Mächtig
- Kollwitzplatz (1887)
- Dönhoffplatz (1887)
- Viktoriapark (1888-1894) including the mountain-like character
- Gendarmenmarkt (1893-1894)
- Cemetery of the March Fallen , in existence since 1848, (1900) restored by Mächtig and horticulturally embellished
- Lützowplatz , which has existed since 1869, was landscaped by Mächtig in 1900
- Arnswalder Platz (1904–1907)
- Arnimplatz (1905–1907)
- Brunnenplatz (1905–1908).
Honors
Hermann Mächtig's grave, which is a listed building and is located in the Friedrichsfelde central cemetery , is carefully cared for.
In Potsdam a street was named after Hermann Mächtig.
literature
- F. Wendland: Berlin's gardens and parks from the founding of the city to the end of the 19th century . Propylaea Verlag, Frankfurt am Main - Berlin - Vienna 1979; ISBN 3-549-06645-7
- Clemens Alexander Wimmer: Parks and Gardens in Berlin and Potsdam ; Ed. Senate for Urban Development and Environmental Protection, Section III - Garden Monument Preservation; Nicolaische Verlagsbuchhandlung, Berlin 1989; ISBN 3-87584-267-7
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ History of the Berlin urban green 1870 to 1920 ( Memento of the original from February 21, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Homepage of the Sassenbach Society ( Memento of the original from May 17, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Berliner places by HW Klünner with photographs by Max Missmann , Nicolaische Verlagsbuchhandlung, Berlin 1996, ISBN 3-87584-610-9 ; Page 80
- ↑ Entry for Mächtig's tomb in the Berlin State Monument List
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Powerful, Hermann |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German gardening director in Berlin |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 18, 1837 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Wroclaw |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 1, 1909 |
| Place of death | Berlin |