Rudolph Juergens

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Horticultural engineer Rudolf Jürgens from Hamburg, creator of the complete systems in the horticultural exhibition in Düsseldorf in 1904

Rudolph Philipp Christian Jürgens (born July 17, 1850 in Nienstedten ; † June 2, 1930 in Hamburg ) was a horticultural engineer, landscaper and businessman.

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Rudolph Jürgens, the son of the landscape gardener Friedrich Joachim Christian Jürgens (1825–1903), was born in Nienstedten, where the father had acquired a horticultural business with a tree nursery three years earlier, which is now remembered by the local Jürgensallee. Shortly after his birth, the family moved to Ottensen , to today's Elbchaussee , where the father's nursery had also been relocated.

After leaving school, Jürgens trained as a landscape architect and then went to England to expand his horticultural skills. It cannot be ruled out that he worked there for the rhododendron breeder Anthony Waterer in Knaphill, as his future wife was a born “Waterer” and the only son was called “Anthony Waterer-Jürgens”. Back in Germany, he supported his father in organizing the " International Horticultural Exhibition in Hamburg 1869", which took place in September on the Stintfang . Then he worked in his father's gardening business and briefly took over its management. Friedrich Jürgens, who had taken on a political role as the second mayor, handed the horticultural business over to his son in 1876 and only kept the tree nursery that remained in Nienstedten. A year later, Rudolph Jürgens was entered in the “Altona address book for 1877” as general agent for fish = guano with reference to his father's company. It was not until 1878 that he became an independent horticultural engineer . He signed documents with Rud. Jürgens or R. Jürgens . During this time, his first articles on practical horticulture appeared in the “monthly newspaper for horticulture in the duchies of Schleswig and Holstein”.

Husum Palace Park , laid out in 1878
Gutspark Böckel , designed by Jürgens in the 1890s

In 1878 Rudolph Jürgens successfully took part in the competition to convert the Husum Palace Park into a city park and designed the area of ​​the “Great Garden” based on the example of English landscape gardens . In 1881 he was commissioned by the "Altonaic Support Institute" (AUI) to remodel the neglected former Rainville garden on the banks of the Elbe in Ottensen . In the late 1890s he laid out a network of paths to develop parts of the Falkenstein and, after 1898, planned the concert square opposite the Kurhaus in Bad Oldesloer Kurpark. In addition to the design of larger parks, Jürgens also designed horse racing tracks , such as the Karlshorst trotting track, which he designed in 1893/94 as a horse racing track for obstacle and hunting races, and which was redesigned for trotting in 1945 .

When the "General Horticultural Exhibition" took place on the old ramparts between Millerntor and Holstentor in 1897 with participants from home and abroad, Rudolph Jürgens took over the overall management. “The show, organized on the occasion of the 60th anniversary of the horticultural association, exceeded not only all expectations in terms of size (20 hectares), duration (May to October) and scope (open-air show and six special indoor shows), but also the garden show once directed by father Jürgens am Stintfang. ”After this overwhelming success, he participated in the“ International Art, Art History and Great Horticultural Exhibition ”in Düsseldorf in 1904 and received the Red Eagle Order IV class in recognition of his services . In 1907/08 he was an expert in the tender for the competition for the new Hamburg city park and was a member of the jury.

Following the example of the near-natural design of English landscape gardens, Rudolph Jürgens created not only public facilities, but also numerous private gardens and parks. He published his design principles in May 1886 in the “General Conservative Monthly for Christian Germany” under the title “Practical and aesthetic requirements for new landscaping”. Among the private clients were members of the Koenig family. For sugar manufacturer Leopold Koenig Jürgens had the garden later Villa Hammerschmidt created in Bonn, and he in the 1890s for his sons Carl Koenig on Good Böckel in today Röding Hauser district beers and Alfred Koenig on the manor Voldagsen in Coppenbrügge became active . Jürgens designed other gardens for the Warburg banking family ("Mittelweg-Warburgs") on the Kösterberg in Blankenese , for the merchants Heinrich Alfred Michahelles and Johann Hinrich Garrels on the Elbuferwanderweg , and for the coffee wholesaler Georg Friedrich Stucken ("Haus Stucken") on the Falkenstein in Blankenese and for the Jenisch family on their estate in Blumendorf . Orders after 1900 came from the merchants and bankers Hermann and Albert Münchmeyer in Rissen , who had their summer houses built east ("Luusbarg") and west of Wittenbergener Weg on the land acquired in 1906. Likewise for Gustav Adolph Vorwerk (1839-1919), who lived in the “main house” on the family estate on Elbchaussee in Klein Flottbek . After real estate agent Arnold Hertz (1874–1945) had acquired land between Billetal and Sachsenwald , he commissioned Jürgens in 1910 with the design of the area at Gut Forellenau in Witzhave . The “landscaper” Jürgens also worked for the shipowner George Henry Lütgens at the Tannenhöft country house in Großhansdorf , which has been used by the Institute for Forest Genetics and Forest Plant Breeding of the Federal Research Center for Forestry and Wood Management (BFH) since 1948 , and for the industrialist and co-owner of the Borsig works Ernst Borsig , who in 1913 had the villa garden of the Landhaus Borsig on the Reiherwerder peninsula in Berlin-Tegel laid out, which is now a protected garden monument .

After the First World War, Rudolph Jürgens largely gave up gardening activities and lived in the villa on Harvestehuder Weg, which he had occupied in 1908, until his death . In June 1930 he died at the age of almost 80 as a result of an accident.

literature

chronologically

  • Georg Dehio : Handbook of the German art monuments . Hamburg, Schleswig-Holstein. 3rd revised and updated edition. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-422-03120-3 , pp. 976–977.
  • Karin von Behr: Rudolph Jürgens . In: Franklin Kopitzsch, Dirk Brietzke (Hrsg.): Hamburgische Biographie . tape 2 . Christians, Hamburg 2003, ISBN 3-7672-1366-4 , pp. 203 .
  • Ingrid A. Schubert: Jürgens, Rudolph Philipp Christian. In: Olaf Klose , Eva Rudolph: Biographical Lexicon for Schleswig-Holstein and Lübeck. Volume 11. Wachholtz, Neumünster 2000, ISBN 3-529-02640-9 , pp. 197-199.
  • Ingrid A. Schubert: Tannenhöft - garden artwork and arboretum. In: M. Liesebach, BR Stephan (Ed.): Tannenhöft - 90 years of the Arboretum - 50 years of the Institute for Forest Genetics and Forest Plant Breeding. Bundesforschungsanstalt für Forst- und Holzwirtschaft, Hamburg 1998, p. 10 ff. ( Ti.bund.de (PDF) accessed on February 3, 2016).

Web links

Commons : Rudolph Jürgens  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Ingrid A. Schubert: Tannenhöft - garden artwork and arboretum , p. 10.
  2. ↑ Obituary notice for Friedrich Joachim Christian Jürgens. In: Hamburger Fremdblatt , October 13, 1903. See Ingrid A. Schubert: Tannenhöft - Gartenkunstwerk und Arboretum , p. 11 and p. 60, notes 24, 25.
  3. ^ Altonaisches Adressbuch for 1877 , p. 329. State library of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg; Retrieved August 5, 2011.
  4. ↑ Altonaisches Adressbuch for 1878 , p. 44. State library of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg; Retrieved August 5, 2011.
  5. ↑ The "Altonaic Support Institute" was a facility founded on January 28, 1799 in Altona with an affiliated savings bank, which supported citizens in financial distress with low-interest loans, donated grants, supported charitable projects and much more.
  6. ↑ Ottensen Chronicle . Support group Ottensen-Chronik e. V., Hamburg 1993, p. 78.
  7. ^ Karin von Behr: Rudolph Jürgens . In: Franklin Kopitzsch, Dirk Brietzke (Hrsg.): Hamburgische Biographie . tape 2 . Christians, Hamburg 2003, ISBN 3-7672-1366-4 , pp. 203 .
  8. ↑ G. Bever rummaging: obituary Rudolph Jürgens. In: Möllers Deutsche Gärtner-Zeitung , No. 25, 1930, p. 299f. See Ingrid A. Schubert: Tannenhöft - Gartenkunstwerk und Arboretum , p. 13 and p. 61, note 40.
  9. ↑ Ingrid A. Schubert: Tannenhöft - Gartenkunstwerk and Arboretum , p. 13.
personal data
SURNAME Juergens, Rudolph
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Juergens, Rudolph PC
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German horticultural engineer, landscape gardener
DATE OF BIRTH July 17, 1850
PLACE OF BIRTH Nienstedten
DATE OF DEATH June 2, 1930
Place of death Hamburg