Anton Spanuth

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Anton Spanuth (full name Anton Wilhelm Spanuth ; * before 1697; buried 8. April 1714 in Herrhausen ) was an Electoral Brunswick-Lüneburgischer Gartenmeister , oranges - and Orangerie - gardener .

Life

At the end of the 17th century, at Easter 1697, the trained pomeranian gardener Anton Spanuth was taken into the service of Electress Sophie after she had consulted with Leibniz about the design of the Great Garden in Herrenhausen. Spanuth, paid an annual salary of 200 Thalers , was supposed to take care of the labor-intensive care of the plants in the electoral orangery and thus relieve the garden artist Martin Charbonnier , who was supposed to complete the baroque gardens in Herrenhausen and had previously been sent to the Netherlands for study purposes.

In addition to orange trees that had been transferred from the kitchen garden to Herrenhausen, as well as 38 other oranges that the Italian Bianchi had sent for 8 thalers each, Anton Spanuth also had to take care of 25 laurel trees that the Dutchman Ohmb had sent for 4 thalers each . In 1708, Baron von Knigge added the valuable oranges from Leveste to the manor house collection . In 1710 more trees were acquired in the orangeries of Schloss Schwöbber and Schloss Hehlen for Herrenhausen.

Jacob Hose , son of the Hanoverian gardener Henrich Hose, completed his three-year training under gardener Spanuth .

At the instigation of Spanuth the Electoral Court bought in 1706 a small garden of Cord Behre on "and addressed an area east [... a] imaginary Avenue, which previously for outworks had heard following the western boundary of the mountain garden of mulberry garden a . ”Spanuth's proposed expansion of the mulberry garden took place under the supervision of the master builder Brand Westermann and with the participation of the bailiff Heinrich Brunck, who is in office in Langenhagen .

From 1707 to 1710 the gardener Asmus Anthony supervised the manor orangery from Celle , and at times also the Linden kitchen garden. In the same time Anthony was supported in Celle from 1709 to 1711 by the "Supernumerair-Gartengesellen" Heinrich Jacob Löpentin .

After Spanuth's death, his position was taken over by the orangery gardener Heinrich Jacob Löpentin or Heinrich Jakob Löppentin. Löppentin, as Spanuth's successor, was given the inventory of the Herrenhausen Orangery , which was made by the builder Johann Heinrich Westermann together with the gardener zu Linden, Johann Konrad Weffer .

Spanuthstrasse

In 1925, Spanuthstraße, named after the electoral gardener, was laid out in the Hanoverian district of Herrenhausen, which connects Halthoffstraße with An Mußmanns Haube street .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c d Eduard Schuster : Art and artists in the principalities of Calenberg and Lüneburg in the period from 1636 to 1727 , Hanover: Hahnsche Buchhandlung, 1905, pp. 113, 121, 220 and others; limited preview in Google Book search
  2. ↑ a b c Helmut Zimmermann : Spanuthstraße , in ders .: The street names of the state capital Hanover . Verlag Hahnsche Buchhandlung, Hannover 1992, ISBN 3-7752-6120-6 , p. 231
  3. ^ A b c d Karl Heinrich Meyer : Royal Gardens: Three Hundred Years of Herrenhausen , Hanover: Fackelträger Verlag, Schmidt Küster, 1966, p. 94, 107; limited preview in Google Book search
  4. ↑ Hubert Höing (Ed.): Hortus Medicus or herb and kitchen garden? The botanical garden of the University of Rinteln , in which: dreams of paradise. Historical parks and gardens in Schaumburg (= Schaumburger Studies , booklet 58), Melle: Knoth, 1999, ISBN 978-3-88368-306-5 and ISBN 3-88368-306-X , pp. 231-256; here: p. 247; limited preview in Google Book search
  5. ^ A b Herbert Westermann: Brand Westermann. A contribution to the history of the Hanoverian Baroque , in: Hannoversche Geschichtsblätter , New Series Volume 28 (1974), Issues 1 and 2, pp. 51–120; here: pp. 107, 115; limited preview in Google Book search
personal data
SURNAME Spanuth, Anton
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Spanuth, Anton Wilhelm (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Elector of Brunswick-Lüneburg garden master, bitter orange and orangery gardener
DATE OF BIRTH before 1697
DATE OF DEATH buried April 8, 1714
Place of death Hanover-Herrenhausen