Carl Adolph Terscheck

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Carl Adolph Terscheck
Carl Adolph Terscheck

Carl Adolph Terscheck (born April 2, 1782 in Elsterwerda , † June 22, 1869 in Dresden ) was a Saxon botanist and co-founder of the Botanical Garden in Dresden . Terscheck belonged to one of the most famous gardening families in Saxony and in 1801 planted the world-famous Pillnitz camellia in its current location.

Life

Carl Adolph Terscheck, whose father Johann Matthäus Terscheck was court gardener in the Elsterwerda palace garden for thirty years , received training in the Zabeltitz palace garden from 1797 to 1800 . After this training, he became a journeyman in the Pillnitz Castle Garden from 1800 to 1802 , where in 1801 he planted the Pillnitz camellia, which has been preserved to the present day, to its present location west of the ring racing building, which was then used as an orangery. The now 8.90 m high plant is one of the oldest camellias in Europe .

The Pillnitz camellia.
Pleasure garden Pillnitz

After a six-year stay abroad with stations in Schönbrunn , Laxenburg and Paris , he became a gardener at Eythra Palace near Leipzig . In 1809 Terscheck took up the position as court gardener in the Dresden palace garden . Under his direction the English part of the Palaisgarten, in 1838 the Pillnitzer Lustgarten and other gardens at the Dresden Zwinger and Antonsplatz were created .

Together with Ludwig Reichenbach and his brother Johann Gottfried Terscheck , Carl Adolph Terscheck founded the Botanical Garden on the site of the Mars Bastion of the Dresden city fortress east of the Kurländer Palais in 1820 , which was relocated to the current site on Stübelallee in 1889.

Between 1843 and 1850 he created an artistic park with rich sculptural decorations on an area of ​​the Dresden Bürgerwiese called the "Inner Citizens' Meadow" . The Bürgerwiese was completed in 1869 as the first urban park in Dresden. From 1847 to 1852 he redesigned the palace garden at the Japanese Palace into an English landscape garden .

Terscheck, who lived in an apartment at Palaisplatz  9 in the immediate vicinity of the Japanese Palace , retired in 1865 and the office of court gardener in the Palaisgarten was officially abolished.

Other botanical works (selection)

The botanist Wilhelm Gerhard Walpers described the plant species Echinocereusreichenbachii for the first time in 1843 , wrote the name of the plant species, which probably appears in the plant directory “Suppl. Cact. 2 ”appears for the first time, Terscheck zu ( Terscheck ex Walpers ), who also owned an extensive cactus collection. In addition, Carl Adolph Terscheck is said to have introduced the first hydrangeas, some acacia species ( Acacia lunata , Acacia decora ), the girl's eye ( Coreopsis tinctoria ) and other new plants to Germany for the first time.

Honors

Terscheckstrasse in Dresden-Johannstadt was named after Carl Adolph Terscheck in 1893 .

See also

literature

  • Stephanie Jäger: The work of the court gardener Carl Adolf Terscheck in Dresden . In: Communications of the Landesverein Sächsischer Heimatschutz 1 (1995), pp. 31–35: Ill.
  • Silvio John: 150th anniversary of the death of court gardener Terscheck . In: Official Journal for the City of Elsterwerda (09/2019), p. 14

Web links

Commons : Carl Adolph Terscheck  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Mustafa Haikal : The secret of the camellia. Ed .: Palaces and Gardens Dresden, Sandstein Verlag, Dresden, 2008, ISBN 978-3-940319-26-5 .
  2. ↑ a b Zhijue Zhang: Terscheck, Carl Adolph . In: Institute for Saxon History and Folklore (Hrsg.): Sächsische Biographie ., Accessed on July 19, 2012
  3. ^ Stephanie Jäger: The work of the court gardener Carl Adolf Terscheck in Dresden . In: Communications of the Landesverein Sächsischer Heimatschutz 1 (1995), pp. 31–35: Ill
  4. ↑ Brochure “Stadt + Grün - Das Gartenamt”, p. 18
  5. ↑ Bürgerwiese • Blüherpark • Güntzwiesen. In: www.dresden-und-sachsen.de. Retrieved January 23, 2016 .
  6. ^ Address and business manual of the royal capital and residence city of Dresden , 1868
  7. ↑ Terscheckstrasse. Streets and squares in Johannstadt. In: www.dresdner-stadtteile.de. Retrieved January 23, 2016 .
personal data
SURNAME Terscheck, Carl Adolph
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Terscheck, Carl Adolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Court gardener from the Electoral Saxony
DATE OF BIRTH April 2, 1782
PLACE OF BIRTH Elsterwerda
DATE OF DEATH June 22, 1869
Place of death Dresden