Wilhelm Weisse
Johann Wilhelm Weisse (born August 25, 1846 in Kamenz ; † July 9, 1916 there ; spelling according to some sources also white) was a German landscape architect and conifer grower .
Life
Wilhelm Weisse, the son of Ferdinand Wilhelm Weisse (1812–1898), founded a nursery in Kamenz in 1872 and specialized in particular in growing conifers. He was particularly well known for importing blue spruce and breeding beautiful color variants. He used his tree nursery on today's Poststrasse not only as a selection site and model show, but also for forest scientific observations. He later expanded his tree nurseries to include today's Volkspark and areas on the Kamenzer Hutberg . In 1893 he also set up a research station for forest botany on the Hutberg , which contained the first “blue forest” in Germany. Weisse received international awards for his work and was appointed supplier to the royal court. A report on the International Horticultural Exhibition held in Saint Petersburg in May 1899 reports:
"For climatically unfavorable locations such as the north, the immediate vicinity of Petersburg, hardy plants like the conifers from Rathke & Sohn - Praust , as well as those from Weisse - Camenz will overtake the suppliers who otherwise work there."
Weisse was awarded the Middle Gold Medal for the Pinus , Picea and Abies range of 25 trees that wintered outdoors in Russia and presented in St. Petersburg .
Through his work as a landscape architect, Kamenz became the city of parks and green spaces. Weisse was made an honorary citizen in 1903. His work was continued from 1912 by Ernst Hilscher (1879–1949). In 1916 Wilhelm Weisse died of a stroke. Today Wilhelm-Weisse-Straße also reminds us of the Kamenzer, who is known far beyond the borders of Saxony.
Garden house in White Garden (reconstruction based on a historical model)
Weisses Villa is now a hotel
Grave slab in the White Garden
Grave of Wilhelm Weisse in the Sankt Just Friedhof (Kamenz)
Wilhelm-Weisse-Strasse
Advertisement for Wilhelm Weißes Nursery in the address book Amtshauptmannschaft Kamenz 1926 (after his death)
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- Wilhelm Weisse ( memento from September 13, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ) in the Biographical Lexicon of Upper Lusatia (with wrong year of death)
- Friends of Hutberg Kamenz eV
- Hoffmann, M. (1899): Special reports on the international horticultural exhibition in St. Petersburg. Gartenflora, Volume 48, pages 397–402 ( online as PDF; 60.1 MB).
- Seidel, TJR (1899): Prizes awarded to Saxon exhibitors at the international horticultural exhibition in Petersburg. Garden flora 48, page 468
- White, W. (1906): The blue resp. silver-colored forest on the Hutberge near Kamenz. Forstwissenschaftliches Centralblatt, Volume 28, Issue 3, Page 175
Individual evidence
- ^ Förster, Ina (2016): How is the court gardener spelled correctly? Sächsische Zeitung - The daily newspaper for Kamenz and West Lusatia, Saturday / Sunday 16./17. July 2016, page 16.
- ↑ Anton Rathke (1813–1898) and Franz Rathke (1842–1908) (see Pioneer in East German Horticulture: Anton Rathke's Lifetime Achievement in Praust ( Memento of the original from May 31, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and still not checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this note. accessed on November 22, 2016)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Weisse, Wilhelm |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Weisse, Johann Wilhelm (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German landscape architect and conifer grower |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 25, 1846 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Kamenz |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 9, 1916 |
| Place of death | Kamenz |