Johann Höpken

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Johann Höpken (born October 10, 1801 in Bremen , † July 26, 1877 in Bremen) was a German merchant, shipowner and member of the Bremen citizenship . He donated the Höpkens Ruh landscape park .

biography

Höpken was the son of a family of merchants who used to be cloth makers. He completed a business apprenticeship. Then he became a partner in a tobacco company. He also earned his living as a captain and shipowner. In 1848 he was elected a member of the Bremen citizenship. On December 19, 1859, he and one of his brothers bought an estate in Oberneuland . They called it Höpkensruh . Höpkensruh was further expanded as a park through its maintenance and additional plantings. In 1863 Höpken laid out his ideas for landscape gardening in a small treatise of his own. In 1865 he established the Johann and Elise Höpken Foundation for neglected girls . The Hartmannshof emerged from it later . The interest income of the foundation should benefit the ten children of his brother Eduard. In 1873 he bequeathed Höpkensruh to the city of Bremen, which accepted the inheritance in 1877. Two of his siblings were granted lifelong usage rights; In 1892 his brother Eduard Höpken waived his further rights of use.

Höpken's grave is located in the Riensberg cemetery in the Johann Höpken family crypt: a large, stand-alone monument built in classicism with a central figure (location: grave number R 276).

Honors

  • The Höpkenweg in Bremen- Oberneuland was named after him.
  • The Höpkens Ruh Park in Bremen bears his name.

Höpken's peace

Park Höpkens Ruh with the Linnaeus Obelisk in the background

The estate is located at Oberneulander Landstrasse 69. A previous owner, Dr. Johann Friedrich Schultze, had already laid out a small park in 1785, built the Schultze estate in 1800 in the classicism style and erected an obelisk in memory of Carl von Linné . Höpkens Ruh developed into a landscape park, which is now a listed building. A restaurant could be set up in the manor house, which was leased to the landlord Carl Bartels in 1893. In 1897 the summer inn burned down. A new building was built according to plans by Heinrich Flügel , which was leased to the Beck & Co Imperial Brewery and destroyed in 1944. An association of the Friends of Höpkensruh founded in 1958 initiated the construction of a new restaurant north of the old house in 1964.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Johann Höpken: Instructions for landscape gardening, Bremen: Geisler, 1863. (44 pp.)

literature

personal data
SURNAME Höpken, Johann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician, Member of the Bundestag and businessman
DATE OF BIRTH October 10, 1801
PLACE OF BIRTH Bremen
DATE OF DEATH July 26, 1877
Place of death Bremen