Isaak Altmann

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Isaak Altmann, bust on the Ansgaribastion in Bremen

Isaak Hermann Albert Altmann (born August 15, 1777 in Bremen ; † December 15, 1837 in Bremen) was a landscape gardener with a focus on Bremen and the surrounding area.

biography

Altmann, who came from a gardening family, settled in Bremen as an art and trade gardener in 1800 after several years of apprenticeship and traveling . One of his first design assignments was the Riensberg Park at the Focke Museum , which he laid out based on the English model in the style of an apparently naturally grown landscape garden. He included the watercourses of a former moat in the garden.

Altmann's Bremen ramparts around 1820

His first major project was the Bremer Wallanlagen , where from 1803 he played a decisive role in transforming the defunct fortifications of the 17th century into a landscape park. As a result of the invasion of Napoleonic troops to Bremen in 1811, it took thirty years was completed by the construction of the ramparts. At the same time, by 1837, he changed the Hamburg ramparts, created by Johan van Valckenburgh from 1616, into green spaces . He was also responsible for the landscape garden at Dammgut Ritterhude around 1815 and the Wätjens Park in Bremen-Blumenthal from 1830 . The spa gardens in Bad Oldesloe are also attributed to him.

Honors

Former Altmannshöhe at the Steintor in Hamburg, around 1840
  • On the occasion of his centenary, a marble bust was erected on a high, stepped base in the area of ​​the former Doventor bastion in the ramparts in honor of the citizens of Bremen on the initiative of the Bremen Horticultural Association in 1877. It was the work of the Bremen sculptor Diedrich Kropp , who won the tender at the time. This bust was destroyed by bombs in 1944. Since a second copy of this bust, cast in bronze, was preserved in the facade niche of the house at Altmannstrasse No. 12, a copy was cast in 2002/03 and placed on a modern sandstone base near the previous location, in the area of ​​the former Ansgari bastion be asked.
  • A hill in the Bremen ramparts ("Altmannshöhe"), between Ostertor and Weser, bears his name.
  • Also in the Hamburg ramparts there was once an Altmannshöhe near the stone gate . Altmannstrasse was laid out here in 1875. Today it runs as the Altmann Bridge over the tracks south of Hamburg's main train station .
  • A residential street in the Schwachhausen district of Bremen was also named after him.

See also

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Local family register Bremen and Vegesack
  2. ↑ http://senatspressestelle.bremen.de/sixcms/detail.php?id=17553
  3. ↑ Gustav Brandes: From the gardens of an old Hanseatic city , Bremen 1939, p. 152
  4. ↑ http://www.weser-kurier.de/bremen4u/cityguide/ausiegen/tagestipps/events_detail.jsp?&pe_id=1309336326037
  5. ^ Gustav Brandes: From the gardens of an old Hanseatic city , Bremen 1939, p. 138ff.
  6. ↑ http://www.badoldesloe.de/Homepage_Stadt_OD/Dokumente_aus_Upload/Kultur_Freizeit/Kurparkfhrungen.pdf  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.badoldesloe.de  
  7. ^ Senate press office - press release on the installation of the bust
  8. ↑ k: art in public space bremen
personal data
SURNAME Altmann, Isaac
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Altmann, Isaak Hermann Albert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Landscaper
DATE OF BIRTH August 15, 1777
PLACE OF BIRTH Bremen
DATE OF DEATH December 15, 1837
Place of death Bremen