Oscar Gregorovius

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Oscar Gregorovius (born December 19, 1845 in Frankfurt (Oder) , † August 2, 1913 in Berlin ; full name: Oscar Hugo Gregorovius ) was a German builder , town planner and community representative.

Gregorovius family burial site

Life

The ancestors of the Gregorovius family came from a Polish noble family from the early 15th century, whose last name was Grzegorzewski. The Latinization of the name then led to Gregorovius. In the 16th century, some family members became clergy in East Prussia . Descendants of the next generation then took up jobs in the state such as lawyers , mayors, district administrators and architects.

Oscar Gregorovius worked in Karlshorst at the end of the 19th century . In 1893 he bought 60 hectares of building land near the obstacle course south of the railway line and west of what later became Treskowallee for 610,000  marks on behalf of two housing associations founded for this purpose  . Then he signed a contract with the administration of the responsible district office of the Niederbarnim district to establish the Colonie Carlshorst . During exploration work for the development, remnants of Germanic settlement were found, which Gregorovius immediately handed over to the Märkisches Museum and had further excavations carried out at his own expense.

Based on his designs, a network of streets was created in Karlshorst, which were named after the emperor's children ; the settlement was therefore soon called the Prinzenviertel . First of all, the builders built small, inexpensive one- to two-story houses, into which simple workers initially moved. Later buildings in the settlement were always more representative than city ​​villas , which have mostly been preserved.

Gregorovius also worked as a master builder in other former suburbs of Berlin such as the Wagner Quarter in Nikolassee (Tristanstrasse 3 and 5, Waltharistrasse 5) and in the Mark Brandenburg . There he was responsible, among other things, for developments on the banks of the Kutzingsee in the district of Görsdorf , which now belongs to the city of Storkow . The buildings designed by Gregorovius also shape the townscape in Reichenwalde and in the Hubertushöhe district of Storkow.

Memorial plaque at Ehrlichstrasse 12 in Berlin-Karlshorst

At Ehrlichstrasse 12 (formerly: Auguste-Viktoria-Strasse ) at the corner of Wildensteiner Strasse in Berlin-Karlshorst , a metal plaque on a brick base, designed by the sculptor Achim Kühn in 1998, points to the location of his house that was destroyed in World War II and thus to the importance of Gregorovius for the Development from Karlshorst.

The tombstone on the Karlshorster and Neue Friedrichsfelder Friedhof contains two errors that have not been corrected: the first name is written with "k" and the year of his birth is dated to "1843". The grave designed by Heinrich Wolf is located in field W-4a and is maintained by the district office. It is a listed building.

A street in the north of Karlshorst is named after him ( Gregoroviusweg ).

literature

Web links

Commons : Oscar Gregorovius  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Jürgen Gregorovius: ( page no longer available , search in web archives: I admire Oscar ) . In: Kiezmagazin 2014; Pp. 48/49. (Jürgen Gregorovius is the grandson of Oscar G.)@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / issuu.com
  2. ↑ Wannsee triangle - the Wagner quarter. Tristanstrasse
  3. ↑ Wannsee triangle - the Wagner quarter. Waltharistraße
  4. ↑ Marcel Gäding: Great-grandfather with a heart ( Memento of the original from May 11, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.lichtenbergmarzahnplus.de archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , in: Bezirksjournal Lichtenberg-Marzahn +, April 24, 2016; accessed on May 11, 2016.
  5. ↑ Gregorovius family grave monument
personal data
SURNAME Gregorovius, Oscar
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gregorovius, Oscar Hugo (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German builder, town planner and community representative
DATE OF BIRTH December 19, 1845
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankfurt (Oder)
DATE OF DEATH August 2, 1913
Place of death Berlin