Ehrenreich Wilhelm Sello

Ehrenreich Wilhelm Sello (born October 11, 1722 in Berlin ; † September 29, 1795 there ) was a royal planner in the Berlin zoo .

Live and act

Ehrenreich Wilhelm Sello, like his younger brother Johann Samuel, belonged to the second generation of gardeners in the Sello family. He was the eldest son of the royal planner in the Berlin zoo, Johann Justus Sello and Rahel, née Güntsch (* 1693), daughter of the mayor Samuel Güntsch from Liebenwalde .

After his father's death in 1768 he took over his position in the zoo and managed, among other things, the baroque pleasure park laid out by his father under the direction of Georg Wenzeslaus von Knobelsdorff . Two years before his death he saw his son Justus Ehrenreich transforming parts of the zoo into a sentimental landscape garden from 1792 onwards .

family

Ehrenreich Wilhelm Sello married Anna Magdalena Seiler († 1766) on August 26, 1751. He had eight children with her, two sons of whom were trained as gardeners. Johann Wilhelm , born in 1756, became royal planner in Potsdam- Sanssouci and Justus Ehrenreich, born in 1758, succeeded him as royal planner in the Berlin zoo.

After the death of his first wife, Sello entered into a second marriage with Susanne Elisabeth Georgenne on January 3, 1768, from which a son and a daughter came.

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. ↑ According to Folkwin Wendland, Ehrenreich Wilhelm Sello is said to have been a planteur from 1758 and, after the death of his father, from 1768 court gardener in the zoo. See Folkwin Wendland: The Great Zoo in Berlin. Its history and development in five centuries . Gebrüder Mann, Berlin 1993, p. 58.