Carl von Effner

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Portrait around 1880.

Carl von Effner (born February 10, 1831 in Munich ; † October 22, 1884 there ; in the nobility since 1877 ; also Karl von Effner and Carl Joseph von Effner ) was a Bavarian court gardener , later a royal Bavarian court garden director and garden designer.

genealogy

Carl von Effner came from the long-serving royal Bavarian court gardener family Effner .

He was a great-grandson of the famous builder Joseph Effner (1687–1745) and son of the Bavarian head gardener Carl Effner senior. (1791-1870).

Life

Monument to Carl von Effner on Maximiliansplatz in Munich
Grave of Carl Effner on the old southern cemetery in Munich location

After an apprenticeship as a gardener with his father, he went on journeyman's trips from 1850–54, financed by Maximilian II . He came to Vienna , Ghent , Paris , England and Sanssouci , among others . Lenné made him familiar with his projects at the time, including work for the Bavarian king. In Sanssouci, Effner also got to know the so-called " mixed style " of the well-known Prussian landscape architect Peter Joseph Lenné for the design of regular ornamental garden areas within landscaped gardens, as they had come into fashion again from around the middle of the 19th century. This encounter made him decide to devote himself entirely to landscape gardening. In Ghent he worked as a drawing teacher in the royal gardening school of Louis van Houtte .

On these study trips he was accompanied by the later inspector of the Botanical Garden in Munich, Max Kolb , an illegitimate son of Max Joseph in Bavaria .

In 1854 King Maximilian II (reigned from 1848 to 1864) called him back to Munich, where he worked on the execution of the Feldafing facilities designed by Lenné. In 1857, at the age of 26, he appointed him court gardener. From 1860 to 1865 he was the deputy of the court gardener in the court marshal's staff. Maximilian commissioned Effner with the design of the banks of the Isar between Haidhausen and Bogenhausen (later called Maximiliansanlagen ) and the horticultural design of the Maximilianstrasse planned by Friedrich Bürklein .

A few years later, in 1868, Effner was appointed head gardener by the new Bavarian King Ludwig II (who took office on March 10, 1864) and was appointed head of all Bavarian court gardens. His successor as court garden director was Jakob Möhl .

In 1870 King Ludwig II appointed him royal court garden inspector and in 1873 royal court garden director. He now designed the gardens of the famous Ludwig II castles, Herrenchiemsee and Linderhof . In 1870 he also laid out the Kronepark .

In 1877 he was raised to the personal nobility.

Furthermore, several private gardens in Bavaria come from Carl von Effner. Sometimes he still worked with his father on the creation of the early gardens.

Carl von Effner died on October 22, 1884.

tomb

The grave of Carl von Effner is on the Old Southern Cemetery in Munich (Grave field 13 - row 1 - place 34) location .

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SURNAME Effner, Carl von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Effner, Karl von; Effner, Carl (jun.)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Bavarian court gardener, later court garden director and garden designer
DATE OF BIRTH February 10, 1831
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich
DATE OF DEATH October 22, 1884
Place of death Munich