Sebastian Rinz

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Sebastian Rinz, etching by J. Eissenhardt.
The Rinz monument in the Frankfurt ramparts

Sebastian Rinz (born January 11, 1782 in Haimhausen an der Amper; † April 8, 1861 in Frankfurt am Main ) was a Bavarian , German city gardener in Frankfurt am Main. There he designed several green spaces of local importance, most of which still exist today.

life and work

Both the grandfather and the father of Sebastian Rinz had looked after the park of Haimhausen Castle near Munich as court gardeners, which was still kept entirely in the Rococo style. In 1796, Sebastian was sent to an apprenticeship at the Electoral Court Gardening of Schleißheim Palace , where he was trained until 1799. After completing his apprenticeship, Sebastian Rinz spent his first years as a journeyman in the court gardening facility in Würzburg. The courtyard garden consisted of two parts, of which the older part was laid out in the “French” style and the younger part was designed in the then new “English” garden style. In 1801, the young Rinz moved to Schönbusch Park near Aschaffenburg , where he worked under court gardener Franz Ludwig Bode in the "English" style park.

When Jakob Guiollett, commissioned by Prince Primate Carl Theodor von Dalberg with the demolition of the Frankfurt city fortifications , was looking for a landscape gardener who could transform the former ramparts into a park, Guiollett turned to Dalberg's court gardener, Bode, with a request to recommend a candidate, the then Frankfurt native City gardener Georg Fliedner was not up to the task. Bode recommended his assistant Rinz.

The Frankfurt ramparts

So in 1806 Rinz came into the service of the city. In 1808 he succeeded Fliedner as a city gardener. He initially designed the Bockenheimer installation and the Eschenheimer installation between the Bockenheimer and Friedberger Tor. He took the necessary trees and bushes from the Frankfurt city forest and the Taunus , and obtained ornamental plants from the gardens of the Mainz court gardener in Königstein, as well as from the monastery garden in Seligenstadt and the Schönbusch park near Aschaffenburg.

On December 31, 1806, he returned to Aschaffenburg, but was called back immediately. The Frankfurt gardeners were overwhelmed with the maintenance of a landscape garden, and Dalberg had also approved the extension of the installation ring and secured the financing from his private fund. In 1808/09 the Friedberger Anlage was built from Friedberger Tor to Sandweg , in 1810 the Taunus and Gallusanlage. The Untermainanlage and the rest of the Friedbergeranlage followed in 1811. and in 1812 work on the Obermainanlage was completed.

Just one year later, the gardens were devastated when the French troops withdrew after the Battle of Leipzig . Rinz renewed the facility in 1814/15. Although the facilities were only about 20 meters wide on average and he only had a little more space for landscaping the site in the Taunusanlage and at the Rechneigrabenweiher in the Obermainanlage, his work met with approval from the Frankfurt citizens. On July 1, 1808, Catharina Elisabeth Goethe wrote enthusiastically to her son Johann Wolfgang von Goethe : “The old ramparts have been demolished, the old gates torn down, a parcel around the whole city, one thinks it is Feerrey. The old wigs couldn't have managed that until Judgment Day. "

More work

In 1828 he designed the main cemetery in front of the city gates, which replaced the old Peterskirchhof in the new town. In 1838 the Günthersburgpark in Bornheim followed on behalf of Amschel Mayer Rothschild . In 1858 he created another landscape garden on the site of the abandoned Peterskirchhof, but little of it has survived today. The park of the Philosophical-Theological University Sankt Georgen in Oberrad also goes back to a landscape garden that Rinz designed in the mid-19th century for the then owner of the property, Georg von Saint-George . Outside of Frankfurt he created gardens for the Villa Leonhardi in Groß Karben , the Wiesbaden spa gardens and Johannisberg Castle in the Rheingau .

His last work was the Nice , a park on the banks of the Main , for which an old arm of the Main (the Kleine Main ) was filled in in 1860 to create a connection to the island of Mainlust . The Nice gets its name because of the numerous exotic plants that thrive here due to the favorable microclimate and which are reminiscent of the gardens of the French Riviera . Rinz could no longer complete the work, the Nice was only completed under his grandson, student and successor Andreas Weber (1832-1901).

On August 29, 1811, Rinz had Frankfurt citizenship for himself and his wife Henriette, née. Gundram and had opened a flower and seed shop with a shop near the Frankfurt Cathedral . Rinz was an honorary member of the Senckenberg Natural Research Society since 1820 and the Frankfurt Society for the Promotion of Useful Arts and their auxiliary sciences since 1857.

A monument in honor of Sebastian Rinz was erected in the Friedberger Anlage, near Bethmannpark , in 1892. In addition, some streets in and around Frankfurt were named after him. The Sebastian-Rinz-Straße in the Westend district of Frankfurt is remarkably adjacent to the Grüneburgpark ; a park that was not designed by Rinz, but by his student Heinrich Siesmayer .

literature

  • Martin Heinzberger, Petra Meyer, Thomas Meyer: Development of the gardens and green areas in Frankfurt am Main . Small writings of the Historisches Museum Frankfurt am Main, vol. 38, 1988. ISBN 3-89282-006-6 . With chapters on Rinz's life and work.
  • Werner Helmberger: Schönbusch Palace and Park . Munich 1991.
  • Wolfgang Klötzer (Hrsg.): Frankfurter Biographie . Personal history lexicon . Second volume. M – Z (=  publications of the Frankfurt Historical Commission . Volume XIX , no. 2 ). Waldemar Kramer, Frankfurt am Main 1996, ISBN 3-7829-0459-1 .
  • Metternich, Wolfgang: Jakob Becker: The teacher of the Kronberg painters . Kronberg 1991, ill. P. 78 and 79 (portraits of Rinz)

Web links

Commons : Sebastian Rinz  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Heinzberger / Meyer: Development of gardens and green spaces in Frankfurt am Main, p. 92 f.
  2. ↑ Heinzberger / Meyer: Development of gardens and green spaces in Frankfurt am Main, p. 43
  3. ↑ Heinzberger / Meyer: Development of the gardens and green spaces in Frankfurt am Main, p. 46
personal data
SURNAME Rinz, Sebastian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German city gardener in Frankfurt am Main
DATE OF BIRTH January 11, 1782
PLACE OF BIRTH Haimhausen
DATE OF DEATH April 8, 1861
Place of death Frankfurt am Main