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The Contribution of the Town gardener Josip Peklar to garden and Park layout in Zagreb in 1878-1895
Tea Helman
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The article presents the results of research about the Zagreb town gardener Josip Peklar, based on documentation about the municipal organization of parks and gardens in the Zagreb Historical Archives. Not much ls widely known about Josip Peklar and the foundation and work of the municipal organization for parks and gardens in the late nineteenth century. Our research thus contributes to greater insight into this subject, and is linked to the hundredth anniversary of the foundation of the municipal organization for parks and gardens, marked in 1992.
After qualifying as gardener, Josip Peklar continued his training in well-known European gardens. From 1873 he worked as chief gardener in Zagreb, and in 1878 hew as accepted for the post oftown gardener. He held the postuntil 1892. Peklar's creative work is especially important: the foundation and layout of new gardens. The town authorities decided about new gardens, but it was Peklar's job as town gardener to put these plans into effect. Peklar first founded a nursey garden, the basis for planning all his other work. The most important and biggest of all Peklar's gardens was the parkon Josipovac and its connection to Tu§kanac. Here he showed all his knowledge and skills in gardening and draughtsmanship, laying out a romantic park in the European style. The second big project was to rearrange Zrinjevac, documented by his working sketch. In a time when the idea that towns should be healthy places full of greenery spread to Zagreb, the town gardener was the main person to implement it. That is why it is surprising that Josip Peklar, who created and preserved so many unforgettable 'green sights' in Zagreb, is completely unknown to the public.
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Hrčak ID:
30780
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Datum izdavanja:
30.1.1994.
Posjeta: 2.356 *