Michael Grosse (landscape architect)

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Michael Grosse (also: Michael Große ; * 1620 ; † 1680 ) was a German gardener and the first designer of the Herrenhausen Gardens .

Life

Michael Grosse was born at the beginning of the Thirty Years War . After the end of the war, from 1653 and until 1675/76, he was initially a gardener in the kitchen garden in Linden and received a salary of 155 thalers . At the same time, in 1666 , Duke Johann Friedrich commissioned Michael Große, who was well trained in terms of his craftsmanship, to create a garden in addition to the newly erected pleasure house in Herrenhausen .

Grosse was still shaped by the renaissance that was fading even in Italy . So he translocated, "well-behaved and tidy", the then already outdated Italian gardening thinking to Lower Saxony and lined up in the initially still small " Great Garden " only one ornamental garden south of the pleasure house, one square next to the other, 16 in total. In addition, he had an avenue of linden trees stretched along the length of the house towards the south in the direction of Leine and flanked by two fish ponds. The size of the garden laid out by Grosse corresponded to today's Luststück along with the garden theater and Königsbusch. It reached as far as the swan ponds and was about as wide as these combined, so it took up about the area of ​​today's Great Parterre and corresponded to about 40 acres .

Also from 1666, Duke Michael Grosse commissioned the planning for a mountain garden to be created northeast of the pleasure house . This was initially intended as a pure kitchen garden for the court kitchen in Herrenhausen and was intended to supply the farm with all kinds of fruit and vegetables. The garden, which Michael Große initially planned on an area of ​​8,500 m², got its name on a sand dune that had previously been partially removed . The mountain garden should form a unit with the courtly area of ​​Herrenhausen. But Michael Grosse only lined up one square cut vegetable patch next to the other in the Berggarten without any particular formal design. But nobody wanted to indulge in such usable space. In the beginning there were no references between the summer house and the garden or vice versa.

Michael Grosse's successor was Henri Perronet , who had been expanding the Great Garden since 1674. From 1677 he enlarged the mountain garden to 30,000 m² and shaped it strictly according to the models of the kitchen gardens of the Sun King in Versailles ( Potager du roi ) and at Marly-le-Roi Palace .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h Friedrich Lindau (text), Hugo Thielen (red.): Hanover - the courtly area Herrenhausen. How the city deals with the monuments of its feudal era . Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich, Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-422-06424-9 , pp. 15, 108; limited preview in Google Book search
  2. ↑ a b Yearbook of the Technical University of Hanover , 1952, p. 65; limited preview in Google Book search
  3. ^ A b Eduard Schuster : Art and artists in the principalities of Calenberg and Lüneburg in the period from 1636 to 1727. Hanover: Hahnsche Buchhandlung, 1905, p. 220; limited preview in Google Book search
  4. ↑ a b c d Karl H. Meyer : Royal Gardens. Three hundred years of Herrenhausen , Hanover: Fackelträger-Verlag Schmidt-Küster, 1966, p. 65
  5. ↑ n.v . : From the village to the garden / history on the hannover.de page [undated], last accessed on March 2, 2020
  6. ^ Marieanne von König (Ed.): Herrenhausen. The Royal Gardens in Hanover , Göttingen: Wallstein-Verlag, circa 2006, ISBN 978-3-8353-0053-8 and ISBN 3-8353-0053-9 , p. 11; limited preview in Google Book search
personal data
SURNAME Big one, Michael
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Great, Michael
BRIEF DESCRIPTION ducal court gardener and landscape architect of Brunswick-Lüneburg
DATE OF BIRTH 1620
DATE OF DEATH 1680