Eduard II. Nietner

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Eduard Nietner , called Eduard II. Nietner (born June 30, 1842 in Potsdam , † March 10, 1909 in Charlottenburg ) was a royal court gardener in the Marly Gardens of the Potsdam Sanssouci Park and in the Berlin Palace Gardens of Charlottenburg .

Live and act

Eduard Nietner belonged to the fourth generation of court gardeners in the Nietner gardening dynasty. He was born in a gardener's house in the Sanssouci park, where his father, Eduard I. Nietner, ran the melonery in the office of court gardener. His mother Auguste, née Balzer, came from nearby Werder .

Following the family tradition, Nietner trained as a gardener and completed his apprenticeship from 1858 to 1861 in the Sanssouci Park in the Charlottenhof district with Julius Hermann Morsch (1809–1869), at the New Palais with Carl Julius Fintelmann and with his uncle and his father's successor in the Melonerie Wilhelm Nietner . In 1859 he also attended the Royal Gardening College at the Wildlife Park near Potsdam , which Peter Joseph Lenné was director. After completing his apprenticeship, Nietner was given an assistant position in the tree nursery at the New Palace in 1861 and in the Botanical Garden in Berlin from 1862 to 1865 .

In 1865 he went on a training trip to Paris, which he had to break off in 1866 because of the German War . After his military service he was called to Koblenz as a senior helper from 1866 to 1869 and from there went on a journey in the same year until 1867 , which took him to southern Germany, Holland, Belgium, France and England. Back in Potsdam, Nietner worked as a senior assistant in Sanssouci Park. The participation in the Franco-German War interrupted this activity from 1870 to 1871.

When the court gardener of the Marlygarten in Sanssouci Park, Gustav Meyer, was appointed to Berlin as the municipal gardening director in 1870, Ferdinand Jühlke initially carried out his duties in Potsdam until Eduard Nietner took over the position of court gardener on his return. The modernization of the Villa Liegnitz and the redesign of the garden also fell during this period of office . The property in the southeast of the Sanssouci Park was intended to serve as the residence of Princess Charlotte of Prussia after she married the Hereditary Prince Bernhard von Meiningen in 1878. The court gardener of her mother Crown Princess Victoria , Emil Sello , designed plans for a garden in strictly geometric shapes, which Eduard Nietner carried out from 1877 to 1878.

After serving in Potsdam, he moved to the Charlottenburg Palace Gardens in 1880 to take over the office of the late court gardener Hermann Kellner (1812-1880). The ruling Kaiser Wilhelm I showed little interest in the palace and garden. In 1883 the Prince and Hereditary Prince of Saxony-Meiningen moved their residence from the Villa Liegnitz to Charlottenburg Palace. On this occasion, the so long neglected and barren place in front of the castle was redesigned into a conifers parterre, with coffer-like recessed lawns and groups of conifers in the forms of the Renaissance as well as other evergreen shrubs and trees. Gustav II Adolph Fintelmann drafted the plans before he left for Hanover, which Nietner carried out in 1884.

After the court gardener of Monbijou Robert Eulefeld (1849–1902) was transferred to Hanover, Eduard Nietner got the area in 1891. There he mainly grew decorative plants. In addition to all leaf plants, palms and ferns, he cultivated a large number of flowering plants and in 1897, in addition to thousands of bulbous plants, may flowers etc., developed numerous, albeit externally grown, flowering plants. When Eduard Nietner fell ill, Georg Potente came from Sanssouci in January 1909 and temporarily took over the official business. After Nietner's death, Potente was appointed his successor in Charlottenburg and Monbijou in March of that year.

Writing activity

Eduard Nietner published the results of his work in numerous specialist journals. In 1885 he wrote an article about "London parks and garden centers" in the "Deutsche Garten-Zeitung". In the same year, the “Garten-Zeitung” published articles on “Das Coniferen-Parterre vor dem Königl. Schlosse zu Charlottenburg ”and“ The Royal Winter Garden of Charlottenburg ”, which Nietner used in the orangery as a palm house until 1884 and during the brief reign of Friedrich III. 1888 as a flower-filled winter garden. After the death of Empress Augusta in 1890 he published an essay on coffin decorations in the “ Garden Flora ” and in 1898 his thoughts “On the relocation of the Royal Gardening College from Potsdam to Dahlem”.

See also

Family tree of the gardener family Nietner (excerpt)

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. 326

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ To distinguish it from his father of the same name Eduard I. Nietner, a Roman two is added to the name in literature.
  2. ^ Jörg Wacker: Potsdam. Sanssouci Park. Garden of the Villa Liegnitz . In: Brandenburg State Office for Monument Preservation and State Archaeological Museum and Foundation Prussian Palaces and Gardens Berlin-Brandenburg (Ed.): Peter Josef Lenné. Parks and gardens in the state of Brandenburg . Worms 2005, p. 216.
  3. ^ Foundation Prussian Palaces and Gardens Berlin-Brandenburg: Schloss Charlottenburg. Royal Prussia in Berlin . Munich 2010, p. 52.
  4. ↑ a b c Eduard Nietner: The Coniferen-Parterre in front of the Königl. Castle at Charlottenburg . In: garden newspaper. IV., No. 48, 1885, pp. 565f.
  5. ↑ SPSG: Preußisch Grün , p. 177. See garden flora. 46th vol., 1897, p. 607.
  6. ^ Eduard Nietner: London parks and nurseries . In: German garden newspaper. No. 9, 1885, p. 78f.
  7. ^ Eduard Nietner: The royal winter garden in Charlottenburg . In: garden newspaper. IV. Vol. 36, 1885, pp. 422f.
  8. ↑ SPSG: Preußisch Grün , p. 97.
  9. ^ Eduard Nietner: Flower donations at the coffin of the Empress Augusta . In: Garden flora. Vol. 39, 1890, pp. 90ff.
  10. ↑ Eduard Nietner: On the relocation of the Royal Gardening College from Potsdam to Dahlem . In: Garden flora. Volume 47, 1898, pp. 13ff.
personal data
SURNAME Nietner, Eduard II.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Nietner, Eduard; Nietner II, Eduard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Royal gardener in the palace gardens of Sanssouci and Charlottenburg
DATE OF BIRTH June 30, 1842
PLACE OF BIRTH Potsdam
DATE OF DEATH March 10, 1909
Place of death Charlottenburg