Henrik August Flindt

Henrik August Flindt ( born April 24, 1822 in Aarhus, † January 19, 1901 in Frederiksberg) was a Danish landscape architect and garden inspector. His works included about two hundred garden projects, including large public parks in Copenhagen, including the new botanical garden. Most of his designs take on the style of an English landscape garden.

Background and education

Flindt was the son of the first lieutenant and later Major General Carl Ludvig Henrik Flindt (1792-1856) and his wife Anna Sophie Caroline (née Flindt, 1797-1854 ), daughter of Captain and chamberlain ( a third cousin ). From 1839 to 1844 Flindt underwent training as a gardener in the palace gardens of Fredensborg and then Rosenborg under Rudolph Rothe. In 1844 he laid the gardener examination and worked as a simple gardener in Bregentved until 1846. A five-year stay abroad led him into the gardens of Booth ( Flottbeck ) Dalbeith Castle (Scotland) and Kew Gardens (England).

Landscapers and planners

1851 Flindt returned back to the Danish mainland and settled as a landscape gardener. His works have included numerous changes of castle and manor house gardens in the State and in Sweden. Many baroque gardens, were converted by Flindt, the contemporary taste accordingly in English parks and lost its original character. Flindt married in 1861 Oligra Petrine Constance Holm ( 1827-1903 ), daughter of a Navy lieutenant.

In the 1870s, Flindt was entrusted with extensive planning tasks in Copenhagen. These included the redesign of the former ramparts; his most important designs were the new botanical garden and the Ørstedtpark. 1877 Flindt was inspector of the royal gardens. Together with Vilhelm Dahlerup he planned the major urban waterfront ( long lines) in Copenhagen, his last major work.

Flindt was an honorary member of the Royal Danish Garden Society (since 1889) and the Danish Gardeners Association (1899 ). He was buried in Solbjerg. A bust Flindts located in the Botanical Museum.

Works (selection)

  • Mansion garden Haselsdorf (Holstein), transformation
  • Botanical Garden, Copenhagen (1871-1874)
  • Ørstedpark, Copenhagen (1876-1879)
  • Charlottenlund, remodeling of the castle garden in the landscape style (1880-1881)
  • Aborrepark, formerly Helmers bastion (1885-1888)
  • Long Line Park, Copenhagen (1894-1900); with Vilhelm Dahlerup, since 1913 there the sculpture The Little Mermaid by Edvard Eriksen
Fredensborg Palace Royal Botanic Gardens (Kew) Charlottenlund Palace
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