Johann Anton Wilhelm von Carstenn
Johann Anton Wilhelm von Carstenn-Lichterfelde (born December 12, 1822 in Neverstaven , Holstein , as Johann Anton Wilhelm Carstenn ; † December 19, 1896 in Schöneberg near Berlin) was a German businessman , real estate entrepreneur and urban developer . He developed the Marienthal villa colony near Hamburg in the 1850s and Lichterfelde , Wilmersdorf and Friedenau near Berlin in the 1860s and 1870s . theCarstenn figure is named after him.
Life
Johann Anton Wilhelm Carstenn was born as the son of Johann Wilhelm Carstenn, a landlord, and Maria Magdalena, née Tieden.
Around 1853 he married Emilie Freydag († 1865), who was born on July 20, 1819. In 1854 his first daughter Marie was born. With his second wife Molly Sophia Charlotte, née von Buchwaldt, who Carstenn married around 1871, he had six other children (1872 Luise, 1874 Carl, 1875 Elisabeth, 1877 Leo, 1878 Molly and 1880 Carola).
In 1854, together with Johann Dittmer Koopmann , he acquired the count's share of the aristocratic estate Wandsbek near Hamburg for 230,400 Danish thalers (= 518,400 ℳ German imperial currency) from Count Ernst von Schimmelmann of Ahrensburg. He converted this area into a villa colony , which was named in Marienthal (after his daughter) in 1861 . In 1855 he acquired the Meierhof Neverstaven, his birthplace, from Johann Dittmer Koopmann, which had been separated from the noble estate Tralau , but sold it again after just one year.
In the middle of the 19th century he brought the idea of a villa colony from England to Berlin . For necessary expansions of the expanding imperial capital, he proposed a continuous urban landscape in the southwest along the railway lines between Berlin and Potsdam , which should consist of individual residential areas embedded in the green and water areas of the Grunewald . In 1865, Carstenn acquired the Lichterfelde and Giesensdorf goods near Berlin with the profits from Wandsbek, and in 1868 the Deutsch-Wilmersdorf manor , consisting of the Wilmersdorfer Oberfeld (later: Friedenau ) and the part of the Hopfenbruch area belonging to the manor in the north of the Feldmark between today Lietzenburger Strasse and Güntzelstrasse to found extensive villa colonies there. For the last two villa locations mentioned, he developed and realized the Carstenn figure named after him , a regular arrangement of streets and squares in the form of an urban figure.
In 1871 he donated around 20 hectares of land to the Prussian military treasury in the villa colony of Lichterfelde-West , which he developed at great expense, for the construction of the Prussian main cadet institute , which had to be relocated from Berlin to the surrounding area due to a lack of space. Carstenn hoped that this would further increase the attractiveness of his villa colonies in the south-west of Berlin. As a result, Lichterfelde-West in particular developed into a preferred place of residence for officers from the Prussian nobility . On the occasion of the laying of the foundation stone of the main cadet institute, Carstenn was awarded the title of nobility “von Carstenn-Lichterfelde” by Kaiser Wilhelm I.
Because of the extensive financial obligations to the Prussian state, which Carstenn had to enter into in connection with the building and donation of the cadet institute, and the stock market crash of 1873, the entrepreneur got into financial difficulties despite the success of his villa colonies. Carstenn was forced to sell the plots in Halensee , Lichterfelde and Wilmersdorf , which had already been parceled out , with great financial losses. From 1887 he received an annual pension of 43,000 marks (adjusted for purchasing power in today's currency: around 316,000 euros), together with a one-off additional payment of 180,000 marks to compensate for his financial ruin. Payments ceased after his death. Carstenn died in 1896 in the Maison de Santé , a renowned institution for the nervous and mentally ill in what is now the Schöneberg district ( Hauptstrasse 16) , a prestigious institution due to its modern treatment methods .
While the original development of the settlements in Friedenau and Wilmersdorf largely fell victim to later rental development, the colony of Lichterfelde-West, which is considered exemplary, has largely been preserved to this day and can be visited. His former manor at the Lichterfelde Palace Park (Hindenburgdamm 28) is called Carstenn-Schlösschen and is used for cultural purposes.
Awards
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- In 1873 he was raised to the nobility.
- From 1872 to 1874, the Charlottenburger Strasse in the "Gründerviertel" of Berlin-Weißensee bore his name.
- He received a grave of honor from the city of Berlin in the old village cemetery of the Evangelical Paulus parish of Lichterfelde (Hindenburgdamm 101) near his former manor house.
- In Lichterfelde the Carstennstrasse (1899) and the Carstenn elementary school ( Steglitz district , until 1983) were named after him. He also received a Berlin plaque on his former manor house (Hindenburgdamm 28) in 1989 .
literature
- Rolf Lieberknecht, Karl-Heinz Metzger and others: From the Wilhelmsaue to the Carstenn figure . 120 years of urban development in Wilmersdorf . District Office Wilmersdorf of Berlin, Berlin 1987
- Hermann Ebling, Evelyn Weissberg: Friedenau tells: Stories from a Berlin suburb - 1871 to 1914 , edition Friedenauer Brücke, Berlin 2007. ISBN 978-3-9811242-1-7
- Hans Walden: Carstenn, Wilhelm . In: Franklin Kopitzsch, Dirk Brietzke (Hrsg.): Hamburgische Biographie . tape 3 . Wallstein, Göttingen 2006, ISBN 3-8353-0081-4 , p. 73-74 .
- Friedrich Puvogel: The Wandsbeck district of Marienthal Historical records of the origin and development of the same and the related processes in Wandsbeck's public life. Wandsbecker Bote, Wandsbeck 1894, ( digitized contract text and numerous comments).
Web links
- Carstenn-Schlösschen in the district lexicon at berlin.de
- Carstennstrasse
- The Carstenn figure in Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf at berlin.de
- Satellite image of Carstenn figure Wilmersdorf
Individual evidence
- ^ Friedrich Puvogel: The Wandsbeck district of Marienthal , p. 3
- ↑ Die Figur Carstenn , p. 12/13, editor: Bezirksamt Steglitz, 2nd ed. 1997
- ↑ A. Freiherr von Houwald: Brandenburg-Prussian status surveys and acts of grace for the period 1873-1918 . Görlitz 1939, p. 4.
- ↑ Carstennstrasse (Weissensee) . In: Street name dictionary of the Luisenstädtischer Bildungsverein
- ^ Carstennstrasse (Lichterfelde) . In: Street name dictionary of the Luisenstädtischer Bildungsverein (near Kaupert )
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Carstenn, Johann Anton Wilhelm von |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Carstenn-Lichterfelde, Johann Anton Wilhelm von |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German businessman, entrepreneur and urban developer |
| BIRTH DATE | December 12, 1822 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Neverstaven , Holstein |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 19, 1896 |
| PLACE OF DEATH | Schöneberg |