Friedrich Nietner

Carl Friedrich Nietner (born June 8, 1766 in Niederschönhausen ; † January 12, 1824 in Potsdam ) was a royal court gardener in Caputh and at the New Palace in Potsdam's Sanssouci Park .

Live and act

Like his brother Christian , who was ten years older than him , Friedrich Nietner belonged to the second generation of court gardeners in the Nietner family. He was born in Niederschönhausen, where his father Johann Joseph Nietner later held this position. His mother Anna Catharina, nee Sello , also came from a gardening family who, like the Nietners, had been court gardeners in royal service for many generations.

When his brother Christian succeeded his father in Niederschönhausen in 1795, Friedrich Nietner took over his position as planner in the Schönholz “ Queen Plantation ”. After Friedrich Wilhelm III. had sold the area in 1802, Nietner went to Steinhöfel in the service of the court marshal and manager of the royal palaces and gardens Valentin von Massow (1752-1817), who had converted the estate into an ornamental farm based on the English model a few years earlier .

After eight years of activity on the Massow estate, Nietner was offered the position of court gardener in Caputh in 1810 , where a tree nursery had been established since the end of the 18th century. After the death of the court gardener Johann Wilhelm Busch (1746–1812), who administered the garden area at the New Palace , Nietner took over his post in Potsdam's Sanssouci Park in 1812 . His tasks included supplying the palace with fresh fruit and vegetables, looking after the plants in the local orangery, in the plantation behind the communes and in the eight fruit quarters on the garden side of the palace. He was also responsible for the vineyard and the fruit trees on the Klausberg, which borders the Sanssouci Park in the north.

Friedrich Nietner looked after the area at the New Palais until the end of his life. When he died at the age of 57, he was buried in the Bornstedter cemetery .

family

Friedrich Nietner was married to Johanna Luise (around 1778–1848), the daughter of the Berlin innkeeper Thomas Thume. Two sons of his seven children learned the gardening trade and were appointed court gardeners. Friedrich Eduard, born in 1796 in Monbijou and in the Melonerie in Sanssouci Park, as well as Wilhelm in Schwedt, born in 1802, and as successor to his brother in the Melonerie in Sanssouci.

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. ^ Foundation Prussian Palaces and Gardens Berlin-Brandenburg (Ed.): Nothing thrives without care. The Potsdam park landscape and its gardeners . Potsdam 2001, p. 294.
2. ^ Karlheinz Deisenroth: Märkische burial place in courtly splendor. The Bornstedt cemetery in Potsdam . Berlin 2003, p. 432.