Karl Foerster Garden (Bornim)
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| place | Potsdam |
| District | Potsdam - Bornim |
| Created | 1912 |
| Surrounding streets | At the robbery 6 |
| Buildings | Residential building |
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| Park design | Karl Foerster |
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| Parking area | 0.5 ha |
The Karl Foerster Garden is a garden in Potsdam - Bornim created by the German gardener and perennial grower Karl Foerster (1874–1970) .
history
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Karl Foerster was with his nursery 1910-1911 from Charlottenburg-Westend to Bornim b. Potsdam moved to the edge of the Bornstedter Feldflur designed by Peter Joseph Lenné in the 19th century . Foerster had been trained at the Royal Gardening School at the Wildlife Park near Potsdam . In 1912 the house was built in the English country house style.
From 1912, Foerster laid out his garden worlds on a 5000 square meter area around his house. On these areas, he tested many of his 300 breeds for their resistance and insensitivity to frost. In analogy to the Worpswede artists' colony , Bornim became known as the “Worpswede the garden designer” through the Foerster - Mattern - Hammerbacher working group . Karl Foerster looked after the garden until his death in November 1970 even after the marriage with the singer and pianist Eva Hildebrandt in 1927 and the birth of his daughter Marianne in 1931 was followed by a business difficult times. Great Depression in the 1930s and the war years : There were Grown potatoes and vegetables.
From August 1945, Foerster continued his gardening business as a "breeding and research company for hardy flowering perennials" with the approval of the Soviet military administration . In 1960/1961, Hermann Göritz planted parts of the garden around and in the 1970s under his own direction, following designs by the 80-year-old. After Foerster's death, Eva Foerster, his 28 years younger widow, continued to live in the house until her death in 1997.
In 1972 the privately run nursery was taken over by the state as the “Volkseigenes Gut Bornimer Staudenkulturen” , with the house and garden remaining in family ownership . In 1981 the Karl Foerster memorial was placed under monument protection to safeguard its existence. In 1983 the garden was reworked by Hermann Göritz and Peter Herling. After completing her gardening apprenticeship with her father, Karl Foerster's daughter Marianne worked as a landscape gardener for the Belgian landscape architect René Pechère in the late 1950s. She returned to Bornim from Brussels in 1990 and from then on took care of maintaining the facility.
During the Federal Garden Show 2001 in Potsdam, the Ministry of Agriculture, Environment and Regional Planning of the State of Brandenburg provided one million marks for the comprehensive reconstruction through the redevelopment agency "Bornstedter Feld". The project was developed by the Berlin garden architect Martin Heisig, who had completed an apprenticeship as a gardener with Karl Foerster from 1957 to 1960.
Karl Foerster always attached great importance to the fact that his Bornim garden was open to all interested visitors. Until 2010, the garden was managed by his daughter Marianne Foerster (who lives in the house that is not open to the public). In order to ensure the permanent preservation of this cultural monument, Marianne Foerster, who died in 2010 at the age of 79, had the house and the garden named after her father in Potsdam-Bornim in the Marianne Foerster Foundation, a trust foundation in the German Foundation for Monument Protection .
layout
The house was built from 1911 in the typical country house style, as represented by Hermann Muthesius (1861–1927). The interior furnishings, especially on the ground floor with the entrance hall, living room and study with library, have largely been preserved in their original state and have been further restored since it was used as a monument.
The garden is thematically divided into the areas of sunken garden, natural garden, rock garden, spring path, autumn bed and fern gorge. The experimental garden, which was abandoned in 1960, is now designed with cultivations.
With a length of 45 meters and a width of 25 meters, the sunken garden is the heart of the facility. Its dry stone terracing was laid out in the 1930s by Hermann Mattern . He presents the magnificent perennials such as delphinium , phlox , asters and chrysanthemums among the grasses . A small garden pond in the center of the Senkgarten is surrounded by irises , daylilies and other perennials.
Right next to it is the spring path with large shrubs such as hazelnut and snowball , which show their full splendor in spring. Then there is the autumn bed, which connects the spring path , the rock garden and the "Fern Gorge". The former natural garden was converted into a “residential garden” by Foerster in 1930, and a small garden hut, the thatched “Bali house”, has been here again since 2014 after restoration. Opposite the garden gate are the old oaks of the Raubfang coach house , the wooded area in which cattle used to be sheltered .
literature
- Marianne Foerster: The garden of my father Karl Foerster. Edited by Ulrich Timm. Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, Munich 2005, ISBN 3-421-03503-2 .
- Heike Kühn ( German Foundation for Monument Protection ): The Marianne Foerster Foundation. How a common goal becomes success for everyone. In: gardening practice . No. 9, 2018, pp. 46–49.
- Norbert Kühn: Karl Foerster Garden in Bornim near Potsdam. Ulmer, Stuttgart 2018, ISBN 978-3-8186-0368-7 .
- Norbert Kühn: Karl Foerster Garden in Potsdam-Bornim. In: gardening practice. No. 9, 2018, pp. 34–45.
- Felix Merk: A search for clues that is visibly worthwhile. In: gardening practice. No. 9, 2018, p. 48.
Web links
- Karl Foerster's house and garden at the German Foundation for Monument Protection
- The Karl Foerster Garden in the PotsdamWiki
Individual evidence
- ^ Directory of traders and traders in Charlottenburg with Westend . In: Berliner Adreßbuch , 1908, V., p. 141. "Karl Förster, Ahornallee 40" (1908/4888: Ahornallee 40: owner Henselsche Erben; residents: gardening owner Karl Förster, Geh.Reg.Rat and ord.Prof Wilhelm Förster ).
- ↑ a b Foerster garden. Nursery Foerster Perennials.
- ↑ Karl Foerster's house and garden. German Foundation for Monument Protection.
- ^ Marianne Foerster (1931-2010). Vita on the website of the German Foundation for Monument Protection, accessed on May 9, 2020.
- ↑ Marianne Foerster's legacy is certain. Press release of the German Foundation for Monument Protection from January 31, 2011.
- ^ Window to the garden: The Karl Foerster House in Potsdam. Monuments, magazine of the German Foundation for Monument Protection, October 2013.
- ↑ Bali in Bornim. Potsdam Latest News , June 21, 2014.
Coordinates: 52 ° 25 ′ 14.5 ″ N , 13 ° 1 ′ 13 ″ E