{{short description|German landscape architect}}
'''Roland Weber''' (3 March 1909 – 14 October 1997) was a German landscape architect.
== Life == Weber was born in Düsseldorf as the son of the self-employed engineer Karl Weber and his wife Agnes. Until 1926, he attended a Realgymnasium in Cologne, but left without graduating for financial reasons, instead completing a gardener's apprenticeship at the Jürgl wholesale nursery in {{Ill|Sürth|de}} from 1927, where he was already making small planting drafts. From 1931, he studied at the {{Ill|Königliche Gärtnerlehranstalt am Wildpark bei Potsdam|de}} in Berlin-Dahlem, among others with the influential perennial gardener Karl Foerster. In 1933, he graduated as a garden technician. Weber then worked again at the Jürgl nursery, now as head of the planning department.
His first commission as a freelance garden architect was the landscape garden of the ''Haus Christiansen'' on the Elbchaussee in Altona an der Elbe in 1934 (arch. {{Ill|Rudolf Lodders|de}}).<ref>''Wasmuths Monatshefte für Baukunst und Städtebau.'' Volume 18, 1934.</ref>
In 1936 he founded his own office in Rodenkirchen. During the Second World War, Weber was drafted for military service, which he performed as a medic in Russia, among other places.
After the war, Weber moved with his office to Düsseldorf, where he created numerous public and private gardens.
Weber was intensively involved with the garden art of other cultures. In 1978, for example, he travelled to southern Spain to study Moorish architecture and garden art such as the gardens of the Generalife in the Alhambra. He also travelled to countries on other continents, such as Morocco, Iran, Thailand and Japan.
Weber lived alone and in seclusion; he died in 1997 at the age of 88 from the late effects of a fire accident in his own house. His grave is in the Linnep cemetery in Ratingen-Breitscheid. The architect Helmut Hentrich, who was a friend of his, created his gravestone. His office continues as WKM Landschaftsarchitekten Weber Klein Maas.<ref>[https://wkm-la.de/ Website of ''WKM Landschaftsarchitekten Weber Klein Maas.'']</ref>
== Gardens == [[File:Hugo Schmölz (geb. 21. Januar 1879 in Sonthofen; gest. 27. April 1938 in Köln), Düsseldorf, Haus Weber, An der alten Mühle 5 in Düsseldorf-Kalkum, 1951, Architekten Helmut Hentrich und Hans Heuser, Landschaftsarchitekt Roland Weber.jpg|thumb|{{center|Haus Weber, architect Helmut Hentrich}}]] * 1934: Landschaftsgarten Haus Christiansen an der Elbchaussee in Hamburg-Altona (architect: Rudolf Lodders) * 1936: Private Garden in {{Ill|Uedorf|de}} near Bonn * 1937: Hausgarten Sch. in Marienburg (Köln).<ref>''Die Kunst und das schöne Heim''. 54. Jahrgang, Bruckmann, Munich 1956</ref> * before 1950: Garten B. in Düsseldorf.<ref name="Bau">''Der Baumeister'' 6/1950</ref> * before 1950: Garten H. in Düsseldorf (with {{Ill|Theodor Merrill|de}}).<ref name="Bau" /> * 1952–53: Eigener Landschaftsgarten Haus Weber in Düsseldorf-Kalkum, An der alten Mühle 5.<ref>[https://archive.today/20140102204657/http://www.duesseldorf.de/cgi-bin/denkmal/dsneu.pl?nr=1249 Institut für Denkmalschutz und Denkmalpflege – Denkmalliste]</ref> * ca. 1954: Malkastenpark<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20151012002226/http://www.strasse-der-gartenkunst.de/malkastenpark0.html Straße der Gartenkunst], retrieved 6 September 2021</ref> * 1952–55: Hausgarten in Krefeld * before 1960: Landhausgarten im Birkenhain (architekt: Hans Junghanns).<ref name="DK58">''Die Kunst und das schöne Heim''. 58. Jahrgang, Bruckmann, Munich 1960</ref> * 1954–68: Garden Langen in Meerbusch * 1954: Garden courtyard of a private house in Düsseldorf * 1955–57: Renker country estate in the Voreifel in Düren-Fuchsbenden * 1957: Exhibition garden for the Bundesgartenschau 1957 in Cologne * 1960–61: Outdoor facilities of the former casino R 55, Bayer-Werk Uerdingen, Krefeld (under monument protection) * 1961–95: Außenanlagen der {{Ill|Horten-Hauptverwaltungsgebäude|de}}, Am Seestern, Düsseldorf.<ref>[https://archive.today/20140102204750/http://www.duesseldorf.de/cgi-bin/denkmal/dsneu.pl?nr=1242 Institut für Denkmalschutz und Denkmalpflege – Denkmalliste]</ref> * 1965: Exhibition garden for the 1965 Federal Horticultural Show in Essen. * 1965–74: Green space planning for the {{Ill|Neue Stadt Wulfen|de}} * 1967: Inner courtyard of Koerfer House in Moscia, Ascona, Ticino (architect: Marcel Breuer) * 1968–74: Garden courtyard at Fritz-Henkel-Haus (seminar building) of Henkel KGaA, Düsseldorf * 1969–75: Landscape garden Frowein in Wuppertal * 1974–92: Outdoor facilities at the headquarters of TÜV Rheinland, Cologne * 1976–78: Rhine meadows at the {{Ill|Oberkasseler Brücke|de}} in Düsseldorf * 1978: Garden courtyard of a private house in Düsseldorf * 1978: Garden courtyard at the headquarters of TÜV Rheinland, Cologne * 1978: Parks of the Kasteel Groot Buggenum in Grathem, Limburg, Netherlands for Helmut Hentrich.<ref>''HÄUSER'' Heft 2/1981</ref> * 1981–82: Renovation of the historic castle garden of {{Ill|Schloss Rahe|de}}, Aachen-Laurensberg * 1982: {{Ill|Mannesmann-Hochhaus|de}} AG (today Vodafone), in Düsseldorf-Carlstadt, Mannesmannufer.<ref>[https://archive.today/20131012191500/http://www.duesseldorf.de/cgi-bin/denkmal/dsneu.pl?nr=1422 Institut für Denkmalschutz und Denkmalpflege – Denkmalliste]</ref> * 1982: Garden courtyard south of the head office of Deutsche Bank AG, Düsseldorf * 1984–86: Garden in Düsseldorf-Oberkassel * 1988–90: Gardens for the new head office building of Horten AG, Am Albertussee, Düsseldorf * 1990–92: Renovation of the historic palace garden of Horten AG, Am Albertussee, Horten AG Schloss Landsberg (Ratingen) Breitscheid
== Exhibitions == * Exhibition together with the architect Hans Junghanns in the Düsseldorf City Museum, November 1983 to January 1984. * Exhibition "Roland Weber – Die Kunst des Gartens" im Schloss Benrath (Düsseldorf), July/August 2004
== References == {{Reflist}}
== Further reading == * {{cite book | last=Weber | first=Roland | title=Gärten, Parks, Gartenhöfe | publisher=G. Hatje | publication-place=Stuttgart | year=1983 | isbn=3-7757-0184-2 | oclc=11037087 | language=de}} * {{cite book | last=Weber | first=Roland | title=Roland Weber : die Kunst des Gartens ; Landschaftsgärten, Parks und Gartenhöfe | publisher=Hatje Cantz | publication-place=Ostfildern-Ruit Germany | year=1999 | isbn=3-7757-0840-5 | oclc=50065080 | language=de}} * {{cite book | last=Poßegger | first=Iris | title=Der Gartenarchitekt Roland Weber (1909 - 1997) | publisher=Grupello | publication-place=Düsseldorf | year=2007 | isbn=978-3-89978-075-8 | oclc=180729376 | language=de | page=}} (in the same time, dissertation for the Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, 2004). * {{cite web | title=Was wir von Roland Weber lernen können | website=Garten + Landschaft | date=4 March 2020 | url=https://www.garten-landschaft.de/lernen-von-roland-weber/ | language=de | ref={{sfnref | Garten + Landschaft | 2020}} | access-date=6 September 2021}}
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