Joachim Heinrich Fintelmann

Joachim Heinrich Fintelmann (* Niendorf near Lüneburg; † December 11 or 14, 1752 in Charlottenburg ) was a manorial gardener for the von Bredow family on their estate in Senzke . He is considered to be the founder of the Fintelmann court gardening dynasty, which was in royal Prussian service for generations.

Live and act

Joachim Heinrich Fintelmann was born in Niendorf on the Schulzen farm of his grandfather, Hans Niemann. His father Heinrich Fintelmann († 1733) married in around 1687 and took over the court-bound office of Schulzen. Joachim Heinrich trained as a gardener and completed his apprenticeship from 1723 to 1726 on the property of the former Hanoverian minister Andreas Gottlieb von Bernstorff in nearby Gartow .

After completing his training, Fintelmann moved to the Mark Brandenburg in 1727 , where he was given the job of gardener by the von Bredow family on their estate in Senzke. Nothing is known about the appearance of the garden that Joachim Heinrich Fintelmann tended or created [...]. However, it cannot be ruled out that the property was designed like an ornamental farm , with a baroque ornamental garden and commercial areas, and flourished especially as a tree nursery .

After the death of the landlord Kaspar Friedrich von Bredow (1680–1739), his widow Ölgard Dorothea († 1745) continued the farm. When Frederick II had the garden of Charlottenburg Palace repaired after ascending to the throne , she delivered two four-horse loads of boxwood from Senzke to Charlottenburg in 1742 . Fintelmann presumably got in contact with the court gardener Joachim Arndt Saltzmann and a job in the palace garden. It is not known when he left Senzke and moved with his family to Charlottenburg. However, Fintelmann already owned land when he received civil rights on March 23, 1749 .

family

While working in Senzke, Fintelmann married Anna Catharina Hoffmann (* 1695) on June 17, 1733. The daughter Johanna Dorothea Catharina of his two children died three weeks after the birth. The son Carl Friedrich, born in 1738, learned the gardening trade like his father and became court gardener in the kitchen garden of Charlottenburg Palace.

literature

Sibylle Badstübner-Gröger: Palaces, mansions, castles and gardens in Brandenburg . Lukas, Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-86732-108-2

Web links

Family Foundation Hofgärtner Hermann Sello: The Fintelmann family of court gardeners (accessed on October 7, 2012)

Individual evidence

↑ The date of birth is no longer verifiable due to the missing church register. See Family Foundation Hofgärtner Hermann Sello.
↑ Clemens Alexander Wimmer: Family tree of the gardener family Fintelmann . In: Foundation Prussian Palaces and Gardens Berlin-Brandenburg (Ed.): Prussian Green . Potsdam 2004, p. 358.
↑ According to the death entry in Charlottenburg. See Family Foundation Hofgärtner Hermann Sello.
↑ ^a ^b Family Foundation Hofgärtner Hermann Sello.
↑ ^a ^b ^c Badstübner-Gröger: Palaces, mansions, castles and gardens in Brandenburg . P. 208.
↑ Almut Andreae, Udo Geiseler (ed.): The manor houses of the Havelland. A documentation of their history up to the present . Lukas, Berlin 2001, p. 51.

personal data
SURNAME	Fintelmann, Joachim Heinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Manorial gardener for the von Bredow family in Senzke
DATE OF BIRTH	18th century
PLACE OF BIRTH	Niendorf
DATE OF DEATH	December 1752
Place of death	Charlottenburg

[1] The date of birth is no longer verifiable due to the missing church register. See Family Foundation Hofgärtner Hermann Sello.

[2] Clemens Alexander Wimmer: Family tree of the gardener family Fintelmann . In: Foundation Prussian Palaces and Gardens Berlin-Brandenburg (Ed.): Prussian Green . Potsdam 2004, p. 358.

[3] According to the death entry in Charlottenburg. See Family Foundation Hofgärtner Hermann Sello.

[Familienstiftung-4] Family Foundation Hofgärtner Hermann Sello.

[Badstübner-Gröger-5] Badstübner-Gröger: Palaces, mansions, castles and gardens in Brandenburg . P. 208.

[6] Almut Andreae, Udo Geiseler (ed.): The manor houses of the Havelland. A documentation of their history up to the present . Lukas, Berlin 2001, p. 51.