Willy Lange (garden architect)

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Willy Lange (born May 23, 1864 in Berlin ; † March 16, 1941 there ) was a German horticultural teacher, horticultural architect and specialist author.

Life

Lange, a son of the composer Gustav Lange , completed an apprenticeship as a gardener at the Metz company in Steglitz from 1882–84 and then attended the Royal Gardening College at the Wildlife Park near Potsdam from 1884–86 . 1886/87 he worked at Weber & Co in Wiesbaden, 1887–89 at Franz Deegen junior. in Köstritz . From 1889–96 he ran his own nursery in Leipzig-Lindenau and then lived on his capital in Dietharz near Gotha.

His influential work began with his activity as a teacher for plant cultivation at the Kgl. Gardening school in Potsdam (later Dahlem) from 1903 to 1915. In 1906 he was awarded the title of King there. Garden inspector and in 1911 a royal horticultural director. From 1900 he became known for his numerous publications on gardens, garden planning and garden design. In 1915 he quit his position and from then on worked freelance in Berlin-Wannsee .

He propagated concepts of the natural garden early on ; By this he understood a natural use of plants in the sense of a "biological aesthetic". The ecological handling of plants based on growth locations goes back to Lange. At the end of 1914 he developed the so-called " German Heldenhain ". For every fallen soldier a community with such should memorial form an oak tree will be planted. Lange's concept was implemented in various municipalities in Germany, for example with the Flensburg Ehrenhain .

On November 1, 1930, he joined the NSDAP . From 1933 he was regarded as a like-minded fellow of the National Socialists. On the occasion of his 70th birthday in 1934, the Agricultural University in Berlin awarded him an honorary professorship .

Some of Lange's gardens have been preserved to this day and are under monument protection.

Gardens

Long garden home
Garden design by Willy Lange in Berlin-Wannsee around 1920
  • 1906: Long residential house garden in Berlin-Wannsee, Bismarckstrasse 5
  • 1915: Landhaus Stauss garden in Berlin-Dahlem , Pacelliallee 14
  • 1914/15: Garden of the Schwarzkopf country house in Dahlem, Peter-Lenné-Straße 7
  • 1917/18: Garden of the Hans Bredow country house in Dahlem, Miquelstraße 92 (with the architect Hermann Muthesius )
  • Country house garden for Otto Stahn
  • Park garden near Hamburg (architect Wynand)
  • Park garden for Rudolf Röber in Wutha

Publications

  • Country and garden settlements . JJ Weber, Leipzig 1910
  • The garden and its plants . Franck'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, Stuttgart 1913
  • Garden design in modern times . (with Otto Stahn) JJ Weber, Leipzig, various editions from 1907 to 1927
  • Garden pictures . JJ Weber, Leipzig 1922
  • Flowers in the home . JJ Weber, Leipzig 1926
  • Garden plans . JJ Weber, Leipzig 1927
  • Illustrated horticultural lexicon . Paul Parey publishing house, Berlin 1927

literature

  • Horst Schumacher, Grit Hottträger: Willy Lange's garden home . Expert opinion for the Berlin State Monuments Office, 1983
  • Joachim Wolschke-Bulmahn : Gardens, nature and folk ideology . In: Rainer Hering (Ed.): The order of nature Lectures on historical gardens and parks in Schleswig-Holstein ( digitized version )

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Gert Gröing, Joachim Wolsche-Bulmahn: Green biographies. Biographical handbook on landscape architecture of the 20th century in Germany . Patzer, Hannover 1997, ISBN 3-87617-089-3 , pp. 214-216.
  2. ↑ Hans Hasler: Obituary in: Die Gartenkunst , vol. 54 (1941), no. 6, supplement, pp. 3-4.
  3. ↑ Bert Beitmann: garden art .
  4. ↑ Urban garden art - from the imperial city park to the people's park for everyone , accessed on: July 23, 2017
  5. ↑ Ehrenfriedhof Barmen , accessed on: July 23, 2017
  6. ↑ Bundesarchiv Berlin, R 9361-IX Kartei / 24780003, membership number 348.070
  7. ↑ a b c d Willy Lange: Garden design of the modern age . Leipzig 1922
  8. ↑ Entry in the Berlin State Monument List
  9. ↑ Entry in the Berlin State Monument List
  10. ↑ Entry in the Berlin State Monument List
  11. ↑ Entry in the Berlin State Monument List
personal data
SURNAME Long, Willy
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German horticultural teacher, horticultural architect and specialist author
DATE OF BIRTH May 23, 1864
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH March 16, 1941
Place of death Berlin