Hermann Sello

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Ludwig Hermann Sello , usually just called Hermann Sello (born September 25, 1800 in Caputh , † December 28, 1876 in Potsdam ) was a royal court gardener in Prussia . Its botanical author's abbreviation is Sello , not to be confused with the abbreviation Sellow , which belongs to Friedrich Sello .

Grave of Hermann Sello in the Bornstedt cemetery
The court gardener's house on Maulbeerallee, built by his brother-in-law Ludwig Persius as an official residence. The building was demolished in 1910 and rebuilt in a modified form further west.

Life

Hermann Sello was born on September 25, 1800 in Caputh near Potsdam as a scion of the Prussian court gardener dynasty Sello (son of Ludwig Sello ; 1775-1837).

After the traditional training as a court gardener and the compulsory educational trip that took him to Vienna, Italy, France and England, Hermann Sello became royal court gardener in 1828. Until 1837 he worked in the landscape garden of Schloss Charlottenhof near Potsdam and designed it under the direction of Peter Joseph Lenné , who had been gardening director since 1824.

A court gardener's house, the so-called Roman baths, was built for him as an official residence . Based on designs by Karl Friedrich Schinkel , his brother-in-law Ludwig Persius , who married his sister Pauline in 1827, was entrusted with the construction. The gardener's house had guest rooms for the Crown Prince's guests (including Alexander von Humboldt ).

In 1837 Hermann Sello took over the management of the terrace area in Sanssouci from his late father, court gardener Ludwig Sello . His new official residence was the Hofgärtnerhaus on Maulbeerallee; In 1841/42 it was rebuilt in the Italian style by Ludwig Persius at the request of Friedrich Wilhelm IV . Among other things, Hermann Sello created the “Italian cultural piece” in front of the Roman baths and the “ Paradeisgärt'l ” on the other side of the Maulbeerallee. He redesigned the terraces of Sanssouci according to the wishes of the royal family, in close collaboration with Ludwig Persius. Hermann Sello is said to have been one of the first gardeners to use decorative leaf plants such as the Hercules shrub in gardens and to have introduced the "window leaf" (Monstera deliciosa) as an indoor leaf plant.

Among his students was Hermann Walter (who later became the court garden director of the Eisgrub castle gardens ). In 1856, however, he went to England on an educational trip. Even Theodor II. Nietner , later also a famous gardener in Potsdam, garden designer of several private parks and author of gardening books, completed his horticultural apprenticeship with him. Hermann Sello was Nietner's maternal uncle.

Hermann Sello died in Potsdam on December 28, 1876. He is buried in the private Sellos family cemetery in Bornstedt , where the grave of Peter Joseph Lenné is also located. The so-called "Sello cemetery" is a small part of the Bornstedt cemetery and was bought by Hermann Sello in 1844 as the Sello family cemetery. For his 200th birthday, his tomb and that of his wife Aline were restored with funds from the German Foundation for Monument Protection . The grave monuments of Sello family are as important examples of Sepulkral architecture of the 19th century under monument protection . The family foundation was established by Hermann Sello in 1872 and has existed as the family foundation Hofgärtner Hermann Sello to this day. She uses significant funds for the preservation and restoration of her cemetery.

Works

  • From 1825 plan drawings for the landscape garden of Schloss Charlottenhof , based on ideas from Lenné (in some areas with the significant participation of Crown Prince Friedrich Wilhelm IV.), From 1828 to 1836 as court gardener there executed the design.
  • The area around the Belvedere was redesigned together with Lenné.
  • The rose garden at Charlottenhof was laid out in 1835, based on plans by Lenné. The garden, in the formal style around a central wooden arbor, was laid out in the axis between the castle and the steam engine house and planted with around 400 rose stems and rose bushes. (Renewed in 1863, later various redesigns)
  • From 1842 onwards, the Bornim fields were decorated with avenues, individual trees, hedges and protective woody plantings (as so-called “ Ferme Ornée ” or “ornamented farm”). For the Federal Horticultural Show in Potsdam in 2001, the arched lime tree avenue leading from Bornstedt over the Vorwerk to the former Marquarter Chaussee was renewed and made accessible with footpaths and cycle paths, so that the field can now be experienced again. Hermann Sello also designed an Italian fruit garden, fruit and vegetable gardens, the geometric order, built by Persius domains - Vorwerk were arranged, and a nearby mulberry plantation , where the king a sericulture wanted to set up.
  • Hermann Sello also designed the wildlife park Potsdam as a transition from courtly Park in the set decorated Havel landscape .
  • Today's Potsdam Botanical Garden was created by Hermann Sello in 1841 as a “Paradeisgärtl”.
  • Weberplatz in Potsdam.
  • In the Breite Strasse and in the Schlossstrasse in Potsdam opposite the Lustgarten, King Friedrich Wilhelm IV had Hermann Sello replant linden trees from 1843 to 1845 in refined, narrower perspective lines (later changed) to give the view of the Garrison Church to increase.

See also

Family tree of the gardener family Sello (extract)

literature

  • (Hermann?) Sello, Wilhelm von Türk : Brief instructions for the upbringing and care of the mulberry tree and for making silk. Berlin, 1851.
Note: A copy of the script is available in the manuscript department d. Univ.-Bibl. Basel, in the catalog there, the author “Sello” is given without a first name, so the attribution to Hermann Sello is not definitive, but can be assumed on the basis of the life data and the work. It could also be Wilhelm Sello , since his nursery plants plants in schools and the like. a. Facility handed over. However, Wilhelm Sello had already died at the time of publication. When Emil Sello although the survival data fit, but a referral with the planting of mulberry is not known.
  • Klaus Arlt: Ludwig Hermann Sello, Oberhof gardener. In: Brandenburgisches Biographisches Lexikon. Edited by Friedrich Beck and Eckhart Henning, Verlag für Berlin-Brandenburg, Potsdam 2002, ISBN 3-935035-39-X , pp. 368–369.
  • 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: 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 Hermann. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 24, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-428-11205-0 , p. 226 f. ( Digitized version ).

Further information in the newly opened “Court Gardener Museum” in Glienicke Palace (permanent exhibition “Court Gardeners in Prussia”).

In the Berlin State Library a. a. can be found: "Poems left behind" by Aline Sello (wife of Hermann Sello), Berlin: Boesche, [approx. 1865/1866/1867].

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personal data
SURNAME Sello, Hermann
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Sello, Ludwig Hermann (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Royal gardener in Prussia
DATE OF BIRTH September 25, 1800
PLACE OF BIRTH Caputh
DATE OF DEATH December 28, 1876
Place of death Potsdam