Maximilian Friedrich Weyhe
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Maximilian Friedrich Weyhe , called Max Weyhe (* 15. February 1775 in Bonn ; † 25. October 1846 in Dusseldorf ) was a German landscape architect of classicism .
Life
Maximilian Friedrich Weyhe grew up in Poppelsdorf near Bonn and Brühl and was taken care of by his uncle Peter Joseph Lenne the Elder. Ä. (Father of Peter Joseph Lenné ) trained as a gardener apprentice in Bonn from 1789 to 1792. After studying in Munich and Vienna (with Franz Boos ) as well as several trips abroad (including to England ), he was a botanical gardener and teacher of botany at the Central School of the Département de la Roer at the Botanical Garden in Cologne from 1801 to 1803 and moved in 1804 as court gardener to Düsseldorf and lived in the court gardener's house . In 1826 he was appointed Royal Horticultural Inspector and in 1833 Royal Garden Director. He was employed there until his death.
Numerous gardens in the Rhineland show his signature. Düsseldorf owes it to him for the system of parks and promenades on the terrain of the former city fortifications, which still characterizes the cityscape, especially the construction and expansion of the electoral court garden . Weyhe was one of the garden architects who applied the new English garden style. In these landscape parks, the aim was to create a kind of idealized nature through which the parks were integrated as advantageously as possible into the landscape. Weyhe is likely to have planned well over 100 gardens or had an influence on their design.
Weyhe did not write any treatises on garden theory, but was very knowledgeable about botanicals and, with other authors, published the Plantae officinales , a series of books on medicinal plants , from 1821 (it was later continued and completed by Theodor Friedrich Ludwig Nees von Esenbeck ). This represents the first lithographically illustrated publication on medicinal plants.
In 1804 Weyhe married Wilhelmine Sophie Esch (1780–1846), who gave birth to three sons and six daughters. The eldest son, Joseph Clemens Weyhe (1807–1871), succeeded him as horticultural director.
On January 26, 1818 Weyhe was from the Prussian King Friedrich Wilhelm III. Awarded the Order of the Red Eagle 3rd class on the white and orange ribbon. In 1824 he was appointed to the city council.
Weyhe died shortly after his wife's death on October 25, 1846 and was buried in the Golzheim cemetery, which he expanded and embellished in 1816 . A few years later, a memorial in his honor, the work of the Cologne sculptor Karl Hoffmann (1816–1872), was erected in the Hofgarten.
Works (selection)
- Düsseldorf: A total of 25 gardens, including the restoration and expansion of the Hofgarten (from 1804 to 1835), almost unchanged (a monument was later erected in the park in his honor), the facilities at Schwanenspiegel , Spee'schen Graben , Königsallee , the Heinrich-Heine-Allee and the castle grounds Eller , where a memorial stone is for him. Furthermore, landscaping of the Kalkum Palace Park, in the park of Benrath Palace (1841), the front part of Lantz'schen Park in Lohausen, redesign and expansion of the Golzheimer Friedhof (1816; Weyhe is also buried there) and his last unfinished work, the Mickeln Castle Park in Düsseldorf-Himmelgeist (from 1843).
- Meerbusch -Büderich: Park of Haus Meer (together with son Joseph Clemens Weyhe)
- Erkrath : Park of the Unterbach house .
- Königswinter -Dollendorf: Park of Heisterbach Abbey , 1827 (only remains have been preserved)
- Ratingen : Park for Johann Gottfried Brügelmann in front of the Cromford textile factory .
- Aachen : Lousberganlagen , from 1807
- Moers Castle Park , around 1836
- Anholt Castle : landscaping of some areas, together with Edward Milner .
- Krefeld : Many of the facilities that have passed from stately property to industrialists clearly show the influence of Weyhe, who is responsible for several of these gardens and parks: the parks of Burg Linn , the Greiffenhorstschlösschen and those of the Schönhausen , Sollbrüggen and Neuenhofen houses .
- Enghien (Belgium) : Castle park of the Duke of Arenberg
- Dortmund: Rombergpark
- Jüchen : in scenic transformation of the park of Schloss Dyck mitbeteiligt
- Kleve : Landscaping of the forest garden on Tiergartenstraße, plan 1821, executed 1822
- Nordkirchen Palace : landscaping of the north garden and the palace island, from 1833/35 to 1840
- Bad Homburg vor der Höhe : spa garden behind the Kurhaus, 1843. From 1852 further planning by Weyhe's cousin Lenné.
- Cologne: Planting plan for the Melaten cemetery , 1826 (unclear whether it was carried out)
- Cologne: Park at Stammheim Castle in Stammheim near Cologne (commissioned around 1828 by Baron Franz Egon zu Fürstenberg-Stammheim)
- Coburg : Park of Rosenau Castle
- Lindau-Schachen on Lake Constance: Park of the Villa Lindenhof for the private banker Friedrich Gruber, mid-19th century.
- Loburger Park in Ostbevern
- Plan of the parks around Altena Castle
- Burgsteinfurt : likely influence on the landscaped gardens of the Bagno (correspondence)
- Brenken : likely influence on the landscaped gardens of Schloss Erpernburg (correspondence)
- Velen Castle : landscaping of the castle park from 1816
Fonts
- as editor: Plantæ medicinales or collection of official plants with lithographic illustrations by Aimé Constant Fidèle Henry (1801–1875) and descriptions by MF Weyhe, JW Wolter, PW Funke, continued by Nees von Esenbeck , Arnz & Comp. , Düsseldorf 1828. Digitized edition of the University and State Library Düsseldorf
- Plantae officinales or collection of officinal plants . With 552 colored lithographs by A. Henry, descriptions by MF Weyhe, JW Wolter and PW Funke. Continued (from 1823) by Th. Fr. L. Nees v. Esenbeck. 4 volumes. Panel volumes under the title: Plantae medicinales or collection of official plants. Lithographic institute Arnz, Düsseldorf (1821-) 1833.
literature
in alphabetical order by authors / editors
- Margaret Ritter: Biographies of European horticultural artists: Maximilian Friedrich Weyhe (1775–1846). Garden director in Düsseldorf in the first half of the 19th century. In: Stadt u. Grün, Heft 3, 2000, pp. 186-191.
- Margaret Ritter: Maximilian Friedrich Weyhe (1775-1846). His life's work and the garden art of his time. Dissertation, Institute for Art History, University of Stuttgart, 2001
- Margaret Ritter: Maximilian Friedrich Weyhe (1775-1846). A life for garden art. (= Sources and research on the history of the Lower Rhine, edited by the Düsseldorfer Geschichtsverein, Volume 7 and publications from the Düsseldorf City Archives, Volume 13) Droste Verlag, Düsseldorf 2007, ISBN 978-3-7700-3054-5 .
- Helmut Schildt: Maximilian Friedrich Weyhe and his parks. Triltsch Verlag, Düsseldorf 1987, ISBN 3-7998-0050-6
- Carsten Seick: Studies on landscaped gardens and parks in Westphalia-Lippe with special consideration of the facilities of private clients. Dissertation of the Westphalian Wilhelms University of Münster 1996, pp. 262–285. Full text: PDF
- Henrike von Werder: Maximilian Friedrich Weyhe (1775–1846) and his “English” landscape garden in the Rhineland . In: Die Gartenkunst 28 (2/2017), pp. 306–312.
Web links
- Literature by and about Maximilian Friedrich Weyhe in the catalog of the German National Library
- Website of the city of Düsseldorf on the 160th anniversary of Weyhe's death
- Route to the parks of Weyhe at baukunst-nrw
- Tour of the courtyard garden
- Maximilian Friedrich Weyhe (1775–1846), garden artist , on the Rheinische Geschichte portal, accessed on December 8, 2015
Individual evidence
- ^ The court gardener Weyhe zu Pempelfort successor to the late Schang zu Grafenberg , in Personal Chronik Kreis Düsseldorf, 1824
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Weyhe, Maximilian Friedrich |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German garden architect |
DATE OF BIRTH | February 15, 1775 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Bonn |
DATE OF DEATH | October 25, 1846 |
Place of death | Dusseldorf |