Weidmann's garden

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Weidmann's garden was one of the numerous baroque gardens that surrounded Leipzig in the 18th century . It belonged to the Weidmann family of publishers in Leipzig .

Location and history

  • Location of Weidmann's garden

  • Moritz Georg
    Weidmann the Elder J.

Weidmann's garden was located northwest of the city behind the Angermühle , bounded in the north by the Elstermühlgraben and in the south by the properties on Ranstädter Steinweg (formerly Mühlgrabensiedlung ). Today the location corresponds to the area between Jacobstrasse and Färberstrasse, from the courtyard area of ​​the buildings on Jahnallee to Elstermühlgraben.

The garden with its typical floor plan appears for the first time on a city map of Leipzig from 1710, but without a name. A plan from 1670 does not yet contain it. Moritz Georg Weidmann the Elder was born in Speyer in 1658 . Ä. ran a bookstore in Leipzig in 1680, which he expanded into a publishing house in 1685. Since he died in 1693, it remains to be seen whether he created the garden or his son of the same name, born in 1686, Moritz Georg Weidmann the Elder. J. , with whom the garden is most likely to be associated.

Moritz Georg Weidmann the Elder J., who had the title of Royal Polish and Electoral Saxon Court and Acciserates, died in 1743. Now only his widow and the daughter of the two, Marie Louise, who remained unmarried and lived until the beginning of the 1790s, bore the Weidmann name. The garden existed as Weidmann's garden until the end of the 18th century. The names of the gardeners are known until 1789. The garden no longer exists in the Sächsisches Meilenblatt Leipzig of 1802. In 1818 Johann Christian Dolz wrote about the "former Weidmann'schen Garten".

description

Plan of the garden

Details of the complex with an irregularly shaped floor plan are known from a preserved garden plan. An avenue running roughly in a north-south direction crossed a second and led to a garden pavilion. To the east of the north-south avenue, behind a half-timbered house, there was a six-part broderie parterre with a fountain in a central water basin. The northern end of this part was an orangery building behind a semicircular hedge and a field with potted plants. A moat flanked the north and west sides of the garden area.

In the western half there was a trapezoidal island in a water basin, which completely filled this part and which could be navigated with a boat. There were two bridge entrances to the island, on which two buildings stood, again an orangery with a field of potted plants and a tower-like building. A tree garden stretched behind the orangery. There were two broderie parterres on the island.

The northern part of the garden and a parcel next to the half-timbered house may have been reserved for the cultivation of useful plants.

literature

  • 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. 33-35.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Plan of the city of Leipzig with the suburbs, 1710. In: Deutsche Fotothek. Retrieved September 30, 2019 .
  2. ^ Siege of the city of Leipzig. In: Deutsche Fotothek. Retrieved September 30, 2019 .
  3. ^ Rudolf Schmidt: German booksellers. German book printer . Volume 6, Berlin / Eberswalde 1908, pp. 1028-1039. (Online at Zeno)
  4. ↑ Citizens. Gardens. Promenades - Leipzig garden culture in the 18th and 19th centuries. 2018, p. 35.
  5. ↑ sheet 19, Leipzig. In: Miles sheets from Saxony. Retrieved September 30, 2019 .
  6. ^ Johann Christian Dolz: Attempt at a history of Leipzig . Leipzig 1818, p. 499. (online)


Coordinates: 51 ° 20 ′ 40 ″  N , 12 ° 22 ′ 4 ″  E