Trier's garden
Trier's garden was a Leipzig garden southwest of the city in the 18th century . In the 19th century, the university's botanical garden was here for 70 years before the site was overbuilt in the last quarter of the century.
history
In 1747 the garden was first described in the Leipzig address book as belonging to Hofrat Trier. He is registered under Hofrat Trier on a city map from 1749. When Councilor Trier is the from Dresden originating Saxon lawyers and later mayor of Leipzig Carl Friedrich Trier . The layout and design of the garden can be assumed for the second half of the 1740s on behalf of Trier. Although the names of later gardeners are known, the identity of the first designer remains unknown.
In 1750 the nephew of Carl Friedrich Trier, the newly graduated doctor of law and also by name Carl Friedrich Trier, married his daughter Caroline Friderike (1725–1771). After the gardener's death in 1763, the couple became owners of Trier's garden. After the death of Caroline Friderike, Trier married the girlfriend of his first wife, Rahel Amalia Augusta, née Beyer (1731–1806), who after Trier's death in 1794 now became the sole owner of the garden, as both marriages had remained childless.
Based on a joint agreement with her husband, Rahel Amalia Augusta bequeathed Trier's garden with the building on it to the University of Leipzig after her death, for which the University of Leipzig had to set up a midwifery school ( Triersches Institut ) there, from which the gynecological institute of the university hospital developed . A small part of the Trier garden served as a kitchen garden to supply the Trier institute, which, however, was relocated in 1828, the larger part became the university's botanical garden .
The botanist Christian Friedrich Schwägrichen , who was the director of the facility until 1837 and was replaced in this role by Gustav Kunze , was in charge of the design of the new location of the Botanical Garden . In 1876/1877 the botanical garden moved to its current site in Linnéstraße. On the site of the former Trier garden, the building of the Imperial Court , the university library , the Royal Academy of Art and the Royal Conservatory of Music were built in the following ten years .
Location and shape
Trier's garden bordered the western bank of the Pleißemühlgraben (then called Pleiße). The so-called Alte Pleiße flowed around it in the west and north. To the north it bordered Schwägrichen's garden, and to the south it was followed by the Schimmelsche Gut with its ponds and the island of Buen Retiro on the southernmost of them.
Access to the garden was via a bridge over the Pleißemühlgraben, which was opposite the western end of the Klitschergässchen (from 1839 Pleißengasse, then Wächterstraße, today Dimitroffstraße). The smaller, slightly higher part of the garden was first reached through the courtyard of a two-storey farm building. This was designed regularly and contained, among other things, flower beds and an orangery area .
The somewhat deeper and much larger western part had the character of a landscape garden and was dominated by two large ponds. Like the others in this area, these were created by mining the clay for the brickworks of the former Georgenkloster and therefore often of strict geometrical shape. The two ponds were bordered by avenues of fruit trees. Arbors, several bridges and a stone grotto were design elements of the garden. In the back pond was an island that could be reached via a headland and a bridge. Here stood a monument, then called a monument, which reminded of the friendship and love of the garden owner and his two wives. The Trier monument has been preserved and is in the garden of the former women's clinic on Philipp-Rosenthal-Straße.
The garden was also of economic importance. There is evidence of the sale of vegetables and fruits as well as fish, the proceeds of which were used to maintain the garden.
literature
- Julia Wiehenstroth: Trier's Garden - From bourgeois garden culture to the botanical university garden . In: Nadja Horsch, Simone Tübbecke (Ed.): Citizens. Gardens. Promenades - Leipzig garden culture in the 18th and 19th centuries. Passage Verlag, Leipzig 2018, ISBN 978-3-95415-072-4 , pp. 120–125
- Peter Schwarz: Millennial Leipzig. From the beginning to the end of the 18th century . 1st edition. tape 1 . Pro Leipzig, Leipzig 2014, ISBN 978-3-945027-04-2 , pp. 428/429 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Leipzig, now living and flourishing . Leipzig 1747, p. 218 (digitized version)
- ^ Floor plan of the city of Leipzig, 1749. Retrieved October 22, 2019 .
- ↑ a b Julia Wiehenstroth: Trier's garden ...
- ↑ In Julia Wiehenstroth: Trier's Garden ... the second Carl Friedrich Trier is incorrectly stated as the first owner of the garden.
- ↑ Gina Klank, Gernoth Griebsch: Encyclopedia Leipziger street names . Ed .: City Archives Leipzig. 1st edition. Verlag im Wissenschaftszentrum Leipzig, Leipzig 1995, ISBN 3-930433-09-5 , p. 55 .
Coordinates: 51 ° 20 ′ 1 ″ N , 12 ° 22 ′ 12 ″ E