International Horticultural Exhibition 1953
The International Horticultural Exhibition 1953 (IGA) was also the second Federal Horticultural Show . It took place in Hamburg .
prehistory
In Hamburg there had already been international horticultural exhibitions in 1869 and 1897 and on the exhibition grounds from 1953, Planten un Blomen , there was also a Low German garden show in 1935 .
The horticultural exhibition
The overall management of the horticultural exhibition was with Karl Plomin . It was opened by Federal President Theodor Heuss . The exhibition took place on the Planten un Blomen site, covered 35 hectares and lasted from April 30 to October 11, 1953 (165 days) and had 5 million visitors. On the occasion of the exhibition, a further 2000 hectares of public green space and 1000 hectares of cemetery space were repaired in Hamburg, which was still badly damaged by the war, beyond the actual exhibition grounds .
literature
- Gustav Allinger : The Song of Songs of Garden Art and Horticulture - 150 Years of Garden Exhibitions in Germany. Paul Parey 1963.
- Frank P. Hesse, Sylvia Borgmann, Jörg Haspel : What good is a beautiful garden to me - historic parks and gardens in Hamburg . VSA, Hamburg 1990.
- Klaus Lindemann: The realization of an idea - 25 years of the Federal Garden Show . Central Association of Horticulture V. 1977.
- Martina Nath-Esser: Hamburg Green . L&H, Hamburg 1998.
- NN: International Horticultural Exhibition Hamburg 1953 . In: Deutsche Bundesgartenschau GmbH (ed.): 50 years of federal horticultural shows. Festschrift on the history of the federal and international garden shows in Germany . Bonn 2001, pp. 15-20.
- Helga Panten: The federal horticultural shows . Ulmer Verlag 1987.
- Ingrid A. Schubert: Wide clearings, quiet ponds and romantic “rockeries” - the life and work of Friedrich JC Jürgens and his son Rudolph . In: Schleswig Hostein Special: Gardens and Parks. Schleswig Hosteinischer Heimatbund 1999.
