Emil Sello

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Grave in the Bornstedt cemetery

Ludwig Emil Walter Sello (* May 24, 1816 ; † June 11, 1893 ) was a German gardener and royal gardener in Potsdam.

Life

Emil Sello was a scion of the May 24, 1816 court gardener - Dynasty Sello (youngest son of Ludwig Sello (1775-1837), brother of Hermann Sello born (1800-1876)).

He was a student of Peter Joseph Lenné . From 1854–91 he was court gardener in the districts outside Sanssouci, Neues Palais and Charlottenhof .

Emil Sello died on June 11, 1893. He is buried in the private Sello family cemetery in Bornstedt , which is part of the Bornstedter cemetery. The grave of his teacher Peter Joseph Lenné is also located in the “Sello cemetery”.

Works

The Crown Estate Bornstedt was expanded by the Crown Prince couple Friedrich Wilhelm (later Emperor Friedrich III ) (1831–1888) and his wife Victoria (1840–1901) , who came from England, into an agricultural model estate. The Crown Prince couple spent a large part of the summer there with their children.

According to the two uses, the Pleasureground initially laid out by Lenné was redesigned by Emil Sello between 1873 and 1875: In the immediate vicinity of the estate between the manor house and the lake, a rose garden with an adjacent lake stage was created. In the wider area, the agricultural areas were horticulturally "adorned" by planting trees in the style of an English " ornamented farm ". The Crown Prince couple was friends with the Sello family, the Crown Princess was very open-minded about gardening. She designed gardens for herself and her relatives, which Sello then detailed and executed.

Some time ago the Bornstedt rose garden was restored, but with modern roses.

  • Bornstedt cemetery

The later Emperor Friedrich III also commissioned his court gardener Emil Sello to redesign the church cemetery in the immediate vicinity of the crown property. Theodor Fontane described the tranquil complex as follows: "The cemetery has the friendly character of an orchard." And "What dies in Sanssouci is buried in Bornstedt."

The forest area, used as a hunting area since the 15th century, was fenced in under the Great Elector and provided with a star-shaped path system. From 1840 onwards, Peter Joseph Lenné, who founded his “ Royal Gardening School ” here as early as 1823, laid out new paths and oak and beech avenues with delightful views on behalf of Friedrich Wilhelm IV . Most of the park-like structures of the Lenné concept, however, were only implemented by Emil Sello around 1865. These structures are still in place today, although the wildlife park has been poorly maintained since the Second World War and the Berlin railway ring, created in the 1950s, cuts the park up. Currently there are again - heavily controversial - plans for a Potsdam bypass road through the wildlife park.

  • Redesign of the garden of Villa Liegnitz in Potsdam
  • Area around the New Palais

After Lenné's death in 1866, until 1888 the “ Neues Palais ” area, in which Emil Sello worked, was withdrawn from the responsibility of the gardening directorate and placed directly under the responsibility of the Crown Prince couple, who lived in the New Palace. Emil Sello (then Georg Potente at the beginning of the 20th century ) redesigned the ground floor in front of the castle and the adjacent hedge quarters. A rose garden was built in the north, adjoining a playground and gymnasium for the sons of the imperial family.

  • Extension of the avenue of lime trees

Emil Sello planted on behalf of Friedrich III. the double-row linden avenue planned by Lenné to connect the New Palais to the Golmer Luch , which still exists today. (Source: ICOMOS report Potsdam)

The garden at the Prinzessinnenpalais , which began in 1740 as a baroque garden , was transformed in 1868 by Emil Sello from a rather cramped landscape garden to an intimate ornamental garden. After its destruction in the Second World War, the palace, rebuilt as an opera café, with the garden designed by Rolf Rühle, was opened to the public in 1964 . The separation between the previously private garden and the Bebelplatz, which surrounds the opera, and the street “Unter den Linden” has now been abolished through the opening and expansion of the garden.

See also

literature

  • Klaus Arlt: Ludwig Emil Walter Sello, head gardener. In: Brandenburgisches Biographisches Lexikon. Edited by Friedrich Beck and Eckart Henning , Verlag für Berlin-Brandenburg, Potsdam 2002, ISBN 3-935035-39-X , p. 368.
  • Karlheinz Deisenroth (author), Military History Research Office (ed.): Märkische Gravege in courtly splendor: the Bornstedter Friedhof in Potsdam , Berlin: Trafo-Verl., 2., ext. and updated edition, 2003, ISBN 3-89626-411-7
  • Clemens Alexander Wimmer (text), Prussian Palaces and Gardens Foundation Berlin-Brandenburg (ed.): The Prussian Court Gardeners , Berlin: General Directorate of the Prussian Palaces and Gardens Foundation Berlin-Brandenburg , 1996
  • Clemens Alexander Wimmer: Empress Friedrich and garden art (In: Mitteilungen der Studiengemeinschaft Sanssouci 3 [1998] 2, pp. 3–27)
  • Clemens Alexander Wimmer: Hermann and Emil Sello , in: General Directorate of the Prussian Palaces and Gardens Foundation Berlin-Brandenburg (ed.): Nothing thrives without care: the Potsdam park landscape and its gardeners; Exhibition in the south-west wing of the Orangery in Sanssouci Park, May 20 to August 19, 2001 , Berlin: General Directorate of the Prussian Palaces and Gardens Foundation Berlin-Brandenburg, 2001, pp. 235–251
  • Clemens Alexander Wimmer:  Sello, Ludwig Emil Walter. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 24, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-428-11205-0 , p. 227 f. ( Digitized version ).

More information in the newly opened "Court Gardener Museum" in Glienicke Palace (permanent exhibition "Court Gardeners in Prussia").

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personal data
SURNAME Sello, Emil
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Sello, Ludwig Emil Walter (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German gardener and royal court gardener in Potsdam
DATE OF BIRTH May 24, 1816
DATE OF DEATH June 11, 1893