Michael Martin Lienau

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Michael Lienau

Michael Martin Lienau (born January 21, 1786 in Elmshorn ; † May 1, 1861 in Frankfurt (Oder) ) was a German businessman and local politician .

Michael Lienau's monument in Frankfurt (Oder) from 1861. The monument is in Lienau Park.

biography

The innkeeper's son from Elmshorn did an apprenticeship with a Hamburg wine merchant. He recommended him to the Daub'sche Weinhandlung in Frankfurt (Oder). In 1804 Lienau came to Frankfurt. In 1818 he acquired a garden plot which was given the number 29 when the “Halbe Stadt” street was built. The Schinkel student and creator of the granite bowl in the Lustgarten in Berlin, Christian Gottlieb Cantian , built the house in 1836, to which Peter Joseph Lenné laid the garden - today's Lienau Park . During this time, Lenné also supplied the plans for the Lennépark Frankfurt (Oder), which was laid out from 1833 to 1845 .

Lienau was a member of the "Association for the Promotion of Horticulture" and had a flower collection in his garden with several hundred species of heather , magnolias , rhododendrons and, above all, camellias , for which he had his own greenhouse built. Carl Loewe describes the garden on July 15, 1839 in a letter to his wife: “You can see the Oder down to Küstrin over to Kunersdorf in the morning…” “In the south you can also see the Oder up to Silesia. For a long time we enjoyed the wonderful view from above on the flat roof of the house. "

After his death, his son Louis had a memorial erected in Frankfurt (Oder) for his father (see picture on the right).

literature

  • Harri Günther, Sibylle Harksen. Peter Joseph Lenné, plans for town and country. Inventory catalog of the Lenné plans in the planning chamber of the State Palaces and Gardens Potsdam-Sanssouci Part III City and Country. With a foreword by Heinz Schönemann. Published by the General Directorate of the State Palaces and Gardens Potsdam-Sanssouci 1990. 1st edition.

supporting documents

  1. ↑ Günther, Harksen. Peter Joseph Lenné, plans for town and country. P. 32
personal data
SURNAME Lienau, Michael Martin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German businessman and local politician
DATE OF BIRTH January 21, 1786
PLACE OF BIRTH Elmshorn
DATE OF DEATH May 1, 1861
Place of death Frankfurt (Oder)