Georg Tatter (landscape architect)

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Georg Tatter (* 1857 ; † 1924 ) was a German court gardener and garden inspector as well as a landscape architect .

Life

William Heinrich Adolf Tatter was a member of the garden master and court gardener family Tatter, known since the first half of the 17th century, and a son of William Heinrich Adolf Tatter (1823-1897).

Born at the time of the Kingdom of Hanover , Georg Tatter continued the family tradition in the fifth generation in Herrenhausen near Hanover . He went through training in the Herrenhausen Gardens until after the proclamation of the German Empire , completed it in 1873 and then attended the gardening school in Potsdam in the local wildlife park until 1875 . He then went to England for two years and Vienna for about a year . Finally he was appointed court gardener at the fruit tree school in Herrenhausen.

After the Herrenhausen fruit tree school was closed in 1892, Tatter began working on the Lohne provincial estate near Isernhagen .

In 1901, the provincial garden inspector, together with the regional forestry officer Georg Quaet-Faslem , laid the 190 hectare gardens of what was then the provincial sanatorium and nursing home for the mentally ill in Lüneburg . They created both private garden spaces and commercial gardens on the site as well as a small, semi-public landscape park .

literature

  • Heike Palm, Hubert Rettich: The orangery gardener Georg Ernst Tatter and his sons. The working and living environment of a Hanoverian court gardener family of the 18th century. In: Arbeitskreis Orangerie in Deutschland (Ed.): "From the orangery ..." and other garden stories. Festschrift for Heinrich Hamann. Potsdam 2002, pp. 140-170
  • Hubert Rettich, Michael Rohde: Great gardeners Herrenhausen. In: Marieanne von König (Ed.): Herrenhausen. The Royal Gardens in Hanover . Wallstein Verlag, Göttingen, 2006, ISBN 978-3-8353-0053-8 and ISBN 3-8353-0053-9 , p. 271 and others;

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Helmut Knocke : Tatter. In: Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein (eds.) U. a .: City Lexicon Hanover . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2009, ISBN 978-3-89993-662-9 , p. 616f.
  2. ↑ a b Michael Rohde , Joachim Wolschke-Bulmahn : Gardens of Sanatoriums and Nursing Institutions in the 19th Century / Garden Art in the Service of Nursing (PDF document), in: unimagazin , Hannover: Universität Hannover, 2004, pp. 46–49
  3. ↑ a b Michael Rohde: Georg Tatter. In: Marieanne von König (Ed.): Herrenhausen. The Royal Gardens in Hanover . Wallstein Verlag, Göttingen, 2006, ISBN 978-3-8353-0053-8 and ISBN 3-8353-0053-9 , p. 272; Preview over google books
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personal data
SURNAME Tatter, Georg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Royal gardener, garden inspector and landscape architect
DATE OF BIRTH 1857
DATE OF DEATH 1924