Hermann Robert Jung

Hermann Robert Jung (* in Amorbach ) was a German landscape architect and municipal building officer , he was horticultural director of the city of Cologne from 1889/1890 .

Career

On March 27, 1879, Jung began an apprenticeship in the Ducal Coburg nursery at Greinburg Castle in Grein , Upper Austria . After working as a gardener's assistant for several years, he became head gardener and head of the horticultural school and Cologne's Flora on February 1, 1889 . In the following year, on April 1, 1890, Jung was appointed head gardener for all garden facilities in the city of Cologne. After Adolf Kowallek's death , Jung took over provisional management of the municipal garden administration in May 1902 until April 1903. He was replaced by Fritz Encke . In 1917, in recognition of his services to German horticulture, Hermann Robert Jung was appointed by thePrussian Ministry of Agriculture awarded the title of Horticultural Director.

Act

Jung was also active as a subject-related author. He published a number of treatises on the floral inventory of his adopted city of Cologne. Jung's “handwriting” can be seen in plans and drafts for improving, expanding or redesigning existing gardens. But Jung also created new things. So he cleared an approximately 72 hectare large forest parcel, the Gremberger Wäldchen , acquired by the forestry treasury through Cologne in Gremberg on the right bank of the Rhine in 1899 , and laid a network of paths there. After further targeted interventions in nature, such as afforestation and establishment of resting places, was so even before the incorporation of the local villages in stadtkölnisches territory a first right rheinisches recreational area for the growing population.

Fonts

• (with Wilhelm Schröder): The Heidelberg Castle and its gardens in old and new times and the castle garden in Schwetzingen. Berlin 1898. (Institute for European Art History, Institute for Franconian-Palatinate History and Regional Studies)

literature

• Joachim Bauer, Carmen Kohls: Cologne under French and Prussian rule. In: Werner Adams, Joachim Bauer (ed.): From the botanical garden to the urban green. 200 years of Cologne Green. (= Stadtspuren, Denkmäler in Köln , Volume 30) JP Bachem, Cologne 2001, ISBN 3-7616-1460-8 , p. 40.