Richard Riedel (garden architect)

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The central cemetery in Gliwice (Gleiwitz)
The Ulanendenkmal in Gliwice City Park in 1928
Today's palm house with a date palm in the foreground

Richard Riedel (* 1887 near Waldenburg , Province of Silesia , † 1965 in Aschau ) was a German gardener, botanist and garden architect. Riedel was the city gardening inspector and horticultural director in the Upper Silesian city of Gliwice . Riedel wrote as an author for the magazine Die Gartenwelt . Riedel lived in the gardener's house in Gleiwitz city park.

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Riedel gained his first experience as a gardener in the health resort of Görbersdorf , then he worked in Ahrensburg near Hamburg and in Oels . In 1910 he worked in Liegnitz and in the following years created a palace garden for Prince von Lichnowsky in Kuchelna near Hultschin. In 1913 Riedel moved to Gleiwitz. In 1917 Riedel was promoted to gardening inspector.

In 1920 Riedel was appointed municipal gardening director in Gleiwitz. Riedel's work included the transformation of the city of Gleiwitz into a green city based on the ideas of the garden city. During his tenure, he had 10,000 trees planted along the Klodnitz, the Klodnitz Canal, in streets and squares. He drafted plans for new parks, green spaces and cemetery areas and documented the green areas in photographs. Riedel worked closely with the Gleiwitz town planning officer Karl Schabik (1882–1945).

Riedel procured Canary Island date palms for the green areas of Gleiwitz, which still adorn the city in the 21st century. In 1925 he also had a large pool for aquatic plants built in the palm house and obtained giant water lilies (Victoria regia). He held his position as garden director until the city was occupied by the Soviet Army. He fled west in 1945 and died in Aschau in 1965.

Works

  • Design and realization of the central cemetery in Gleiwitz in collaboration with Karl Schabik
  • Green area around the Ulanendenkmal in the city park in Gleiwitz
  • Urban palm house
  • Project and implementation of the expansion of the Gleiwitz city nursery (nursery and culture centers)
  • Redesign of the city ​​park
  • Swiss
  • Forest castle
  • Four-row linden avenue on Gustav-Freitag-Allee (today ul. Mickiewicza)

literature

  • Gliwicki Magazyn Kulturalny , number 6, 2004
  • Życie Gliwic ; Number 12, 2013

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The Garden World , Number 49, 1920
personal data
SURNAME Riedel, Richard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German gardener, botanist and garden architect
DATE OF BIRTH 1887
PLACE OF BIRTH near Waldenburg , Province of Silesia
DATE OF DEATH 1965
Place of death Aschau