Max Bromme
Max Bromme (born August 18, 1878 in Grünberg ( Lower Silesia ), † September 9, 1974 in Frankfurt am Main ) was a German gardening architect .
Life
Max Bromme studied at the Royal Gardening School at the Wildlife Park near Potsdam . There he became a member of the student union Technischer Bund Burschentag . He then worked from 1903 to 1908 under Fritz Encke in Cologne . From 1908 to 1912 he was City Garden Director in Erfurt . In 1912 he went to Frankfurt am Main, where he worked as horticultural director of the city of Frankfurt am Neuen Frankfurt from 1912 to 1945 and was also director of the palm garden from 1932 to 1945 .
plant
Up until the 20th century, landscaping and garden design took place primarily in objects belonging to the upper class or in public parks. Max Bromme's concern was to create green spaces in the settlements and especially in between. During his term of office in Frankfurt, he expanded the urban green spaces from 200 to 450 hectares and spoke of the green belt for the first time in the course of the Niddatal development .
Designed objects in Frankfurt (selection)
- Park on the Bornheimer slope
- Green area of the IG Farben building
- Expansion of the main cemetery in Frankfurt
- Forest cemetery Oberrad
- various avenues, including Senckenberganlage , Rheingauallee and Zeppelinallee
- Rose garden in Frankfurt-Sachsenhausen, 1914
- Brentano Park
- Holzhausenpark
- Solmspark
- Rothschild and Goldschmidt Park
- Frankfurt Waldstadion (with City Planning Officer Gustav Schaumann )
- Westhausen settlement
- Frankfurt-Römerstadt settlement
- Huthpark
- Volkspark Lohrberg with the Lohrberger Hang vineyard
In 1925 Bromme developed the first concepts for the preservation of the Nidda with the surrounding area as a green open space between the core city and the new settlements, which were planned as part of the New Frankfurt under Building Councilor Ernst May . A well-known example of a successful transition between city and landscape is the Römerstadt settlement . Leberecht Migge planned gardens and green spaces for this settlement.
Honors
- 1953: Cross of Merit on Ribbon of the Federal Republic of Germany
- A path that crosses the park on the Bornheimer Hang is named after Max Bromme. The path is the extension of Wittelsbacher Allee , it begins in the park opposite the Heilig-Kreuz-Kirche and leads down the slope. The way passes the Frankfurter Volksbank Stadium and ends at the street Am Erlenbruch .
literature
- Wolfgang Klötzer (Hrsg.): Frankfurter Biographie . Personal history lexicon . First volume. A – L (= publications of the Frankfurt Historical Commission . Volume XIX , no. 1 ). Waldemar Kramer, Frankfurt am Main 1994, ISBN 3-7829-0444-3 , p. 109-110 .
Web links
- Max Bromme in the Rhein-Main-Wiki
- Federal archive - central database for estates In: nachlassdatenbank.de. Retrieved on August 30, 2016 (information about Max Bromme's estate in the Institute for Urban History ).
Individual evidence
- ↑ Erich Hopfe (Ed.): Bund Burschentag. Directory of former members. Edition January 1939, Beelitz (Mark) 1939, p. 6 No. 53.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Bromme, Max |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German horticultural architect, Frankfurt horticultural director |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 18, 1878 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Grünberg , Province of Silesia , Kingdom of Prussia , German Empire |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 9, 1974 |
| Place of death | Frankfurt am Main , Hessen , Federal Republic of Germany |