Theodor Nussbaum

Theodor Nussbaum (born July 3, 1885 in Linz am Rhein , † April 24, 1956 in Cologne ) was a German garden and landscape architect and municipal building officer with the rank of town planning officer .

Life

Theodor Nussbaum completed training in horticulture from 1900 to 1905 . In the following years, from 1905 to 1907, he attended the higher technical college for horticulture in Köstritz to complete his training , where he received the specialist tools for his further career.

After successfully completing his degree in 1907, he found his first job as a garden architect at the cemetery administration in Leipzig . In 1908 Nussbaum switched to a private company as a horticultural architect for two years, and then from November 20, 1910, he worked as a horticultural technician in the garden administration of the city of Cologne. During the First World War , Nussbaum was employed for the cemetery system in Poland ( Rawa ) from 1916 to 1918 . When he returned, Nussbaum also developed into a specialist in cemetery and sports facility design. In 1920 he took over the management of the design office of the Cologne garden administration and in 1928 was appointed city planning officer. In 1933 Nussbaum applied for the position of city gardening director in this position. After the Second World War , Nussbaum was suspended until February 1949 because of his party membership in the NSDAP and finally resigned from his office in July 1950.

plant

Fritz Schumacher's overall plan , an early project for the Outer Cologne Green Belt , was revived by Nussbaum and largely implemented during his tenure. After the old plans were revised by Theodor Nussbaum, from 1920 in Cologne on the left bank of the Rhine, in addition to extensive meadow areas, smaller ponds and extensive plantings emerged. The facilities he created included: The Adenauer and Decksteiner Weiher to promote rowing and two other lakes on the other side of the Luxemburger Straße, of which the Kalscheurer Weiher still exists today. The circular pond at the Bonn roundabout was not restored after being destroyed in the Second World War , but designed as a special lawn.

Further projects were the conversion of the Prussian military area Merheimer Heide into a park in connection with facilities for various sports disciplines, the expansion of the Mülheim city garden as a pure refuge for relaxation, the design of the Rheinpark in 1928 for the Pressa , but also with a view to other upcoming exhibitions and trade fair events . Nussbaum's influence in the mid-1930s on the design of the so-called “Maifeld”, a festival and parade ground at the Aachener Weiher , was the high point and, after the war, the end of his career.

Honors

Theodor Nussbaum received the bronze medal in the urban art competition on the occasion of the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin .

Fonts

• Cosmopolitan green. The Cologne forest and meadow belt . In: Städtebau, Vol. 26, 1931, pp. 41–48 ( digitized version of the Central and State Library Berlin ).

literature

• Joachim Bauer, Carmen Kohls: Cologne under French and Prussian rule. In: Werner Adams, Joachim Bauer (ed.): From the botanical garden to the urban green. 200 years of Cologne Green. (= Stadtspuren - Monuments in Cologne , Volume 30.) JP Bachem Verlag , Cologne 2001, ISBN 3-7616-1460-8 .
• Ulrich S. Soenius, Jürgen Wilhelm (Ed.): Kölner Personen-Lexikon . Greven, Cologne 2007, ISBN 978-3-7743-0400-0 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Joachim Bauer and Carmen Kohls, p. 117.
2. ↑ Monica Freifrau Geyr von Schweppenburg: Living in the green area, the Cologne green system, published by Kölner Grünstiftung, Cologne undated (2006), p. 92 and 115
3. ↑ Cologne Personal Lexicon
4. ↑ Joachim Bauer and Carmen Kohls, p. 117 ff.