Ernst August Bernhard Petri

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Court gardener Ernst August Bernhard Petri and his children

Ernst August Bernhard Petri (born July 19, 1744 in Eisenach , † October 30, 1809 in Zweibrücken ) was a landscape architect of the 18th century. His most important work was the design of the gardens at Karlsberg Palace .

Life

He came from a family with a long horticultural tradition. His father Johann Georg Petri was a court gardener in Saxony-Eisenach, his uncle Johann Ludwig Petri was a court gardener first in Nassau-Saarbrücken and then in Pfalz-Zweibrücken . Ernst August Bernhard Petri completed a three-year apprenticeship with the Saxon court gardener Wilhelm Ludwig Steitz in Gotha . Shortly before the end of his training in October 1761, his teacher died, so that Petri's apprenticeship letter was issued by the Saxon-Gotha pleasure gardener Johann Christoph Krieger.

Petrihaus, Herzogstrasse 9

In 1762 Petri returned to Zweibrücken to continue his education with his uncle Johann Ludwig. In the following years Petri made several stays abroad in France, Holland and England before he married the councilor and innkeeper daughter Susanne Friederike Fröhlich (1746–1777) in 1766. In the same year, like his uncle, he became a court gardener at the court of Duke Christian IV of Pfalz-Zweibrücken. In 1768 Petri had a representative house built according to the plans of the court architect Hautt in the baroque ducal suburb of Zweibrücken . Today the Zweibrücken City Museum is housed in this "Petri House" .

Under Duke Karl II. August Petri built the Hermitage in Zweibrücken Castle in 1776, but it was soon abandoned in favor of Karlsberg Castle. On the Karlsberg he was in charge of the entire garden. In addition to the gardeners for the ornamental gardens, especially the Karlslust, a number of specialized gardeners who dedicated themselves to the useful plants in the vegetable gardens and greenhouses of the Karlsberg were also under his control. The work on the Karlsberg completely claimed Petri, so that in 1786 the Duke made him an apartment in the orangery of the castle. From 1788 Petri was supported by his son Bernhard as "court gardener adjuncto". In 1797 he was appointed to the Princely Council.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Bernhard Koerner : Genealogisches Handbuch Bürgerlicher Familien , Volume 15, S. 469, Verlag CA Starke, 1909; (Detail scan)
  2. ^ Letter from court gardener Ernst August Bernhard Petri. In: museum-digital: rheinland-pfalz. Retrieved January 1, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Marcus Köhler: Early landscape gardens in Russia and Germany: Johann Busch as a mentor of a new style . Aland-Verlag, 2003, ISBN 978-3-936402-02-5 .
  4. ↑ Petri House. In: BarockStraße SaarPfalz. Retrieved January 1, 2019 .
  5. ^ Stefan Ulrich, Jutta Schwan: Castle ruins and forest park Karlsberg Homburg (=  small art guide ). Schnell & Steiner, 2008, ISBN 978-3-7954-6744-9 , pp. 22-24 .
  6. ↑ Andrea Dittgen: Thank you Petri . In: The Rhine Palatinate . July 26, 2014.
personal data
SURNAME Petri, Ernst August Bernhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German landscape architect
DATE OF BIRTH July 19, 1744
PLACE OF BIRTH Eisenach
DATE OF DEATH October 30, 1809
Place of death Zweibrücken