Carl Sello

Carl Julius Samuel Sello (born February 9, 1757 in Potsdam ; † August 26 or August 28, 1796 there ) was a royal court gardener in the kitchen garden, the so-called Marlygarten , in the Sanssouci park in Potsdam .

Live and act

Carl Sello came from the first marriage of the royal gardener Johann Samuel Sello to Friederike Maria, née Goeritz († May 1760). He was born in the gardener's house below the Sanssouci Palace, where his father managed the kitchen garden and a greenhouse built where the picture gallery is today .

Carl Sello learned the gardening trade and, after his apprenticeship in 1777, went with one of the Great Kings on March 4th. J. personally signed the passport "in order to be perfectly adept at our service at the gardening shop, traveling to foreign countries for a few years" [...] .

After his return he got a job as an assistant in Caputh and before 1781 with his father in the kitchen garden of Sanssouci, whose successor he became in 1787. He took over numerous fruit trees, next to them were asparagus and vegetable fields, two bean houses, from 1763 a pineapple house with canal heating, a tall greenhouse for peaches, apricots and plums and numerous cold frames, including for melons, vegetables and herbs. The 215-meter-long north wall of the garden [was] glazed and used to grow peaches, apricots and wine.

During Carl Sello's service, the entire fruit tree population suffered severe frost damage. In addition, the old greenhouses had to be repaired or renewed, and more greenhouses for plums and peaches, new wine walls, a bean house and numerous hotbed boxes were built. For all Prussian kings in Sanssouci, the crops for the royal table were in the foreground. Only under Friedrich Wilhelm III. The cultivation of exotic plants with no useful value was also expanded. When Sello applied for a house for exotic plants in 1791, building and gardening manager Johann Christoph von Woellner wrote to the gardening director Johann Gottlob Schulze warning : The exotic does not have to become a main issue for us because we don't want a botanical garden now.

When Carl Sello died in 1796, Joachim Heinrich Voss was appointed his successor. He found his final resting place in the Bornstedt cemetery .

family

Carl Sello married Friederike Wilhelmine Albertine Lüder, daughter of the court kitchen master Johann August Lüder, on May 7, 1788 in Potsdam. With her he had a daughter and their son Friedrich , born in 1789 , who, like his father, learned to be a gardener and who later lived in South America as a plant hunter and naturalist .

See also

Family tree of the gardener family Sello (extract)

literature

• Foundation Prussian Palaces and Gardens Berlin-Brandenburg (Ed.): Prussian Green. Court gardener in Brandenburg-Prussia . Henschel, Potsdam 2004, ISBN 3-89487-489-9 , p. 332

Individual evidence

1. ^ SPSG: Preußisch Grün , p. 332; Georg Sello : Potsdam and Sans-Souci. Research and sources on the history of the castle, town and park . Breslau 1888, p. VIII.
2. ↑ According to Bornstedt church book, cf. Karlheinz Deisenroth: Märkische burial place in courtly splendor. The Bornstedt cemetery in Potsdam . Berlin 2003, p. 100.
3. ↑ Sello: Potsdam and Sans-Souci , p. IX.
4. ↑ According to an inventory list from around 1746, there were 328 fruit trees. See SPSG: Nothing thrives without care. Potsdam 2001, p. 290.
5. ↑ Gerd Schurig: The blossom of the fruit culture in the Sanssouci of Frederick II. In: Foundation Prussian Palaces and Gardens Berlin-Brandenburg: Friederisiko. Frederick the Great . Hirner, Munich 2012, p. 56f.
6. ↑ Gerd Schurig: The fruits of the court gardeners . In: Foundation Prussian Palaces and Gardens Berlin-Brandenburg: Nothing thrives without care. The Potsdam park landscape and its gardeners . Potsdam / Berlin 2001, p. 290.
7. ^ Clemens Alexander Wimmer: The activities of the court gardeners . In: SPSG: Preußisch Grün , p. 174. See Niedersächsisches Staatsarchiv Oldenburg, holdings 271-25 no. 52, file 87 (79) according to Acta Generalia Registratur Schulze Vol. IV no. 2.
8. ^ Deisenroth: Märkische burial place in courtly splendor. The Bornstedter Friedhof in Potsdam , p. 442.