Kurt Schönbohm
Kurt Schönbohm (born January 7, 1908 in Hamburg , † January 23, 1997 in Cologne ) was a German garden architect and most recently head of the City of Cologne's Green Space Office from 1951 to 1973.
Life
Kurt Schönbohm came from a family in which the gardening profession was already a tradition. So he also completed an apprenticeship in horticulture , which he completed on February 21, 1928 with the assistant examination. For his advanced training, he took the newly established field of garden design at the Agricultural University in Berlin in 1929 . Karl Schmidt-Rottluff also imparted additional knowledge in art and drawing . After completing his studies in 1932, Schönbohm received a diploma with the grade “very good”.
From 1933 to the end of 1934 Schönbohm worked with design and planning tasks for private and public green spaces at the Deutsche Park- und Grünanlagengestaltung GmbH founded by Gustav Allinger and Hermann Roth. This was followed by tasks for the garden and cemetery office in Bremen (1935/1936), the city garden office in Nuremberg (1936/1937) and work for the Reichsgartenschau Stuttgart (office Matern 1937/1939). From 1939 to 1940 he was in charge of the Wuppertal garden department. This was followed by his conscription for military service in the Second World War from 1940 to 1945. After that, Schönbohm resumed his work in Wuppertal and continued it until 1949. After a short period of freelance work, on January 15, 1951, he took over the management of the City of Cologne's Green Space Office.
Schönbohm created numerous gardens and water facilities in Cologne. Among other things, he was significantly involved in the design of the Cologne Rhine Park and the Aachener Weiher. In 1956 he designed a large fountain system with 3 arched fountains on Cologne's Neumarkt, which distributed their water in a slightly deepened hollow. Although the fountain system improved the square, it was closed in 1993.
Act
Schönbohm, who started his work in the badly damaged city, made necessity a virtue by shaping the debris on the outer open spaces into hilly landscapes and planting them. He was able to bring the experience he had already gained in Stuttgart with the planning of the Reichsgartenschau to Cologne. With his designs for the federal horticultural shows in 1957 in the Rheinpark and in 1971 in the Rheinpark and the Riehler Aue, he made a significant contribution to their success.
Schönbohm died in 1997 at the age of 89. His grave is located in the Melaten cemetery in Cologne (Lit J No. 298-99).
Fonts
- Around the Cologne city forest pond. A breviary for walkers. Greven, Cologne 1964.
- (with Harro Koch): Flora, Zoo and Rheinpark in Cologne. Office for Green Spaces of the City of Cologne, undated (1968).
- Hermann Pückler on the hundredth anniversary of his death. Euroflora burdock, Aachen 1971.
- Green areas 1945–1975. JP Bachem, Cologne 1988, ISBN 3-7616-0938-8 .
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 - Monuments in Cologne , Volume 30.) JP Bachem, Cologne 2001, ISBN 3-7616-1460-8 .
- Ulrich S. Soenius, Jürgen Wilhelm (Ed.): Kölner Personen-Lexikon . Greven, Cologne 2007, ISBN 978-3-7743-0400-0 .
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Schönbohm, Kurt |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Schönbohm, Kurt GW |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German garden architect, head of the Green Space Office in Cologne (1951–1973) |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 7, 1908 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hamburg |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 23, 1997 |
| Place of death | Cologne |