Stephan Gugenmus

Stephan Gugenmus (* 1740 in Bretten , † 1778 in Mannheim ) was a German farmer. As the leaseholder of the castle in Handschuhsheim , he ended the three-field economy there and introduced horticulture . In Handschuhsheim a path and a place are named after him today.

Life

He came to Handschuhsheim around 1769, where he leased the castle, including 108 acres of land and eight acres of meadow, from the administrative councilor Johann Ludwig Harscher for 2,400 guilders a year. He finished the three-field system by the clover growing the resulting in the stable manure again ausbrachte for fertilizing the field, and hence its crop yields could increase by several times. In addition, he used his fields for the first time to grow vegetables, which was previously only practiced on a small scale in the house gardens. He was the first farmer in Handschuhsheim to grow madder and hops , thereby promoting the development of the Handschuhsheim madder mill , which ground madder roots into red dye. Gugenmus published his findings in 1776 in the publication Von dem Ackerbaue of the electoral village of Handschuhsheim .

His services to the promotion of agriculture and horticulture led to an initial boom in Handschuhsheim. Today the Gugenmusweg and Gugenmusplatz are named after him there, and there is also a memorial plaque on Gugenmusplatz .

Fonts

• From the arable farming of the Palatinate village of Handschuchsheim , 1779; reprinted in: all economic writings. Lautern 1779, collected after his death, edited and accompanied with practical comments by Georg Stumpf, Fürstl. Furstenberg. Oec. Raths and the Kurmainz. Akad. D. Knowledge ord. Members , Jena 1789

literature

• Hans Heiberger: Handschuhsheim. Chronicle of a Heidelberg district , Heidelberg 1985, p. 45/146.
• Carl Leisewitz:  Gugenmus, Stephan . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 10, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1879, pp. 93-95.