Daniel Rastedt

Daniel Rastedt (born May 27, 1761 in Lübeck , † November 3, 1836 in Eutin ) was a German gardener.

family

Daniel Rastedt was a son of the gardener Gabriel Rastedt (baptized on July 16, 1723 in Lübeck; † October 30, 1775 there) and his wife Catharina, née Boy (baptized on February 2, 1727 in Lübeck; buried on September 12, 1783 there ). She was a daughter of the Lübeck gardener Johann Boy. Ancestors of the family worked as gardeners until the Thirty Years War .

Daniel Rastedt had three sisters and six brothers, one of whom died young. The other brothers all worked as gardeners:

• Nicolaus (* 1766) worked in Saint Petersburg .
• Johann Gabriel (1750–1821) and Christian (1753–1817) had commercial nurseries in Lübeck. They were suppliers of plants for the landscape garden of the Eutiner Hof.
• Jochim Hinrich (1773–1838) verifiably supplied the Eutiner Hof until 1837.

Rastedt himself married Anna Dorothea Ranninger on July 2 or 7, 1800 (baptized on April 26, 1780 in Eutin; † March 1, 1851 ibid), with whom he had four daughters and a son. His wife was a daughter of the Eutin court baker and innkeeper Wulf Hinrich Ranninger.

Act

Rastedt probably received his training in a Lübeck nursery. In 1780 in Eutin he created a floor plan of the construction work on the palace gardens, which he signed himself. What he did in the following years is not known. Prince-Bishop Peter Friedrich Ludwig hired him in 1787 as an assistant in converting the French garden of his Eutin residence into a landscape garden and made him a permanent gardener three years later.

Rastedt has been involved in the garden of the Eutin Castle since the beginning of the construction work and implemented the ideas of his client independently. In 1793 he was appointed court gardener to succeed the late Alexander Schremm. Work on what is now Schleswig-Holstein's most important classicist garden artwork lasted until 1803. Rastedt worked with master builder Peter Richter and other specialists and looked after the facility until the end of its life.

Rastedt not only created the garden of the Eutin Castle, but also proved to be a creative planner. In 1788 he created several consecutive designs for a new palace garden, and towards the end of his life plans were added for a new palace square. He himself wrote that he had also designed gardens "in Holstein and Mecklenburg", which are not exactly known today.

literature

• Gisela Thietje: Rastedt, Daniel . in: Biographical Lexicon for Schleswig-Holstein and Lübeck . Wachholtz, Neumünster 1982–2011. Vol. 11 - 2000. ISBN 3-529-02640-9 , pages 317-318.