Carl Friedrich Fintelmann
Carl Friedrich Simon Fintelmann (born January 6, 1738 in Senzke , † November 23, 1811 on the Pfaueninsel near Potsdam ) was a royal court gardener in the kitchen garden of Charlottenburg . He is considered the progenitor of the Fintelmann court gardener dynasty.
Live and act
Carl Friedrich Fintelmann was the son of the gardener of the von Bredow family in Senzke Joachim Heinrich Fintelmann and Anna Catharina, nee Hoffmann. Like his father, he learned to be a gardener and, after his death, completed an apprenticeship as a gardener from 1753 to 1756 under the court gardener Joachim Arndt Saltzmann , who looked after the pleasure garden and kitchen garden in Charlottenburg . In his journeyman's letter he was certified by Salzmann that he had learned the highly praiseworthy gardening art, and that his apprenticeship years had been honest, also faithful, diligent and obedient in it, as it is due to an art-student apprentice, so that I was probably satisfied with him As his teacher I have him such for his well-spent teaching time, the 11th Nobr. 1756 Here spoken to Frey Ledig and Loß .
Carl Friedrich Fintelmann stayed in Charlottenburg and in 1761 became an adjunct of his now 70-year-old teacher. He was thus entitled to a successor in office and, as was usually the case, half of his salary . On August 23, 1764, Fintelmann married Saltzmann's daughter Anna Dorothea. The marriage resulted in six sons and one daughter:
- Friedrich Wilhelm Julius (1766–1816), commercial gardener
- Carl Christian (1767–1848), businessman in Berlin
- Joachim Anton Ferdinand (1774–1863), court gardener on Pfaueninsel and Charlottenburg
- Karl Friedrich Simon (1775–1837), chief forester in the zoo
After Salzmann's death in 1771, Friedrich II had the Charlottenburg district divided. Christoph Neumann, who was in charge of the orangery even before 1760 , was also given the pleasure garden area and Fintelmann was appointed as court gardener in the kitchen garden area. In 1800 he asked to be allowed to employ his son Ferdinand as an adjunct, who four years later took over the position of court gardener on Pfaueninsel. After the French occupation from 1806 to 1809, which resulted in severe interventions in the park, the area of the kitchen garden was sold in 1810. The 72-year-old Fintelmann then moved to live with his son on Pfaueninsel, where he died in 1811. He found his final resting place in the cemetery in Stolpe .
See also
Family tree of the Fintelmann family of gardeners (excerpt)
literature
- Foundation Prussian Palaces and Gardens Berlin-Brandenburg (Ed.): Prussian Green. Court gardener in Brandenburg-Prussia . Henschel Verlag, Potsdam 2004, ISBN 3-89487-489-9
Individual evidence
- ↑ Journeyman's letter (unfinished) for Carl Friedrich Fintelmann in: SPSG: Preussisch Grün , p. 234. The original is kept in the Hofgärtnermuseum Schloss Glienicke , Berlin.
- ↑ In Preussisch Grün , p. 130 f, Clemens Alexander Wimmer gives Joachim Arndt Salzmann's salary as 570 thalers in 1734. At the Prussian court there was probably no increase in the salary of the court gardener until 1787.
- ↑ The reference to the burial site is taken from the website of the Sello Family Foundation
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Fintelmann, Carl Friedrich |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Fintelmann, Carl Friedrich Simon (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Royal gardener in the kitchen garden of Schloss Charlottenburg |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 6, 1738 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Senzke |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 23, 1811 |
| Place of death | Peacock Island |