Joachim Heinrich Voss

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Joachim Heinrich Voß (born March 10, 1764 in Dassow , Mecklenburg-Schwerin , † October 8, 1843 in Potsdam ) was a royal court gardener in the kitchen garden, the so-called Marlygarten , in the Sanssouci park in Potsdam and the father-in-law of gardening director Peter Joseph Lenné .

Live and act

Joachim Heinrich Voss was born in Dassow as the son of a commercial gardener. The father, who planned him to take over his parents' business later, sent him to an apprenticeship in Lübeck. However, Voss broke off his commercial training after a few months and began a three-year gardening apprenticeship in 1782 at the ducal-Oldenburg court gardener Schrein in the garden of the Eutin Castle .

After his apprenticeship, Voss went to the Prussian court in Potsdam and in 1785 got a job in the pleasure garden , which was looked after by the court gardener Joachim Ludwig Heydert . There he worked as an assistant to Heydert's nephew and adjunct Conrad Pleymer (also Pleymert, Pluymer) (1747-1817). In the same year Friedrich II bought a piece of land south of the avenue to the green grid in order to set up a pineapple forcing. Since Heydert cultivated such appetizing pineapples in his private nursery at Nauener Tor , the king called his employee Pleymer in 1786 as court gardener in the pineapple district. Voss followed him there in the same year as senior assistant.

In 1792 he moved to assembly Frederick William II. On the Vorwerk Caputh where he operated on a part of the area a fruit tree nursery. When the court gardener of the kitchen garden in Sanssouci Carl Sello died in 1796, Voss was appointed to his office. In addition, after the death of the court gardener Johann Carl Jacobi (1770–1831) in 1831, pineapple forcing came under his administration. Both areas, in which he worked until the end of his life, were taken over in 1843 by the court gardener of the melonery area, Eduard I. Nietner . When he celebrated his 50th service anniversary on May 1, 1835, Friedrich Wilhelm III honored him . for his services to the Order of the Red Eagle, 4th class.

Club activity

Joachim Heinrich Voss was a member of the “Märkisch Economic Society” founded in Potsdam in 1791 by Pastor Christian Friedrich Germershausen (1725-1810) and garden inspector, later garden director Johann Gottlob Schulze . The company dealt [...] with all the objects that serve to hold and transport the indigenous rural and urban food shops [...]. Voss was first listed in the list of members in 1824. He was a member of the board and published articles about his experiences in the cultivation of various crops in the association's magazines, “Monatsblatt der Kgl. Prussian Brandenburg Economic Society in Potsdam ”.

He also joined the first pure gardening association in Germany, which was founded in 1822 by Peter Joseph Lenné and Ferdinand Fintelmann , among others , the “Association for the Promotion of Horticulture in the Royal Prussian States”, or “Berlin Horticultural Association” for short. Its members appointed Voss in 1823 as head of the vegetable growing committee. The purpose of the association was to promote the interests of horticulture at a high level . Among other things, the annual exhibitions with horticultural products of all kinds and the publication of experience reports in the magazines "Negotiations of the Association for the Promotion of Horticulture in the Royal Prussian States", which Joachim Heinrich Voss also published with articles, served from 1824. Of the fruits mentioned and contributed to the annual exhibitions, the 26 pea varieties (1825), 25 different pumpkin varieties (1829) and 13 strawberry varieties (1831), which are almost unimaginable today, are eloquent testimony to Voss's horticultural expertise and research interest. In 1829 he received a price of 25 Friedrichsd'or for the most successful treatise on the cultivation of pineapple fruits. In a lecture given to members of the “Berlin Horticultural Association” in 1836, the association's representative, the preacher Carl Helm, praised Voss' successful driving work.

"For Mr. Hofgärtner Voss [...] apart from several flowering and ripening fruit trees, the lush vegetation of the pineapple plants, which deliver their ripe, large and multi-berry fruits from month to month, I must not fail to mention the ones with many hundreds of pots filled houses with the most glorious scarlet strawberries, of which daily for the royal. Table is picked. "

- Carl Helm, 1836

Publications

Articles in the magazine “Monatsblatt der Königl. Prussian Brandenburg Economic Society in Potsdam ":

Articles in the magazine "Negotiations of the Association for the Promotion of Horticulture in the Royal Prussian States":

  • About the cultivation and use of sea, sea or beach cabbage, Crambe maritima L. 1, 1824 (article by the court gardener in Bellevue Heinrich August Brasch (1781–1842) in collaboration with Joachim Heinrich Voss)
  • Comments on experiments carried out with hydrochloric acid lime. About different types of fertilization . 2, 1826
  • Continuation of the experiments on fertilization with hydrochloric lime or poudrette . 3, 1827
  • Experiment with the germination power of the seeds of melons and cucumbers . 4, 1828
  • About the cultivation of various still little known fine vegetables . 5, 1829
  • About the white Turkish wheat, a comparative culture experiment . 6, 1830
  • About plum forcing . 6, 1830
  • About the culture of horseradish . 7, 1831
  • About Bastadirung of Turkish Wheat . 8, 1832
  • About mushroom forcing . 10, 1834

family

Joachim Heinrich Voss was married to Friederike Katharina Charlotte, née Huth (1755–1836). The marriage had four children. His eldest daughter Friederica Louisa Carolina Henriette (1798–1855), given name Friederike , married Peter Joseph Lenné, who later became garden director, on January 3, 1820 .

After his death in 1843, like his wife before, he found final peace in the Bornstedt cemetery .

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. 336

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c Friedrich Otto, Albert Dietrich (Ed.): General garden newspaper . Volume 11, No. 43, Berlin 1843, Nekrolog p. 343.
  2. ↑ Gerd Schurig: Pineapple - a royal fruit . In: House of Brandenburg-Prussian History (Hrsg.): Nice and useful. From Brandenburg's monastery, castle and kitchen gardens . Berlin / Potsdam 2004, p. 163.
  3. ↑ SPSG: Preußisch Grün , p. 336. In the necrology in the “Allgemeine Gartenzeitung” it says that after Plemer's departure, Voss had “the independent administration of the pleasure garden, the supervision of the orangery located there, of the Dutch parts in front of the picture gallery in Sanssouci and transmitted over all tree plantings in the city of Potsdam ”.
  4. ↑ Otto, Dietrich: Allgemeine Gartenzeitung . Berlin 1843, Nekrolog p. 344.
  5. ↑ From the company's articles of association. See. . Clemens Alexander Wimmer: The Märkische Economic Society (1791-1843) . In: House of Brandenburg-Prussian History (Hrsg.): Nice and useful. From Brandenburg's monastery, castle and kitchen gardens . Berlin / Potsdam 2004, p. 167.
  6. ^ Wimmer, in: Nice and useful , p. 172.
  7. ^ Wimmer, in: SPSG: Preußisch Grün , p. 179.
  8. ↑ Gerd Schurig: The fruits of the court gardeners . In: Foundation Prussian Palaces and Gardens Berlin-Brandenburg: Nothing thrives without care. The Potsdam park landscape and its gardeners . Potsdam 2001, p. 290.
  9. ^ Lecture by the preacher Helm, as a member of the association for the headmaster of the gardening school, at the meeting on May 29, 1836 . In: Negotiations of the Association for the Promotion of Horticulture in the Royal Prussian States. 13th volume, Berlin 1838, p. 110.
  10. ↑ SPSG: Preußisch Grün , p. 336.
  11. ^ Karlheinz Deisenroth: Märkische burial place in courtly splendor. The Bornstedt cemetery in Potsdam . Berlin 2003, p. 446.
personal data
SURNAME Voss, Joachim Heinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Royal gardener in Sanssouci
DATE OF BIRTH March 10, 1764
PLACE OF BIRTH Dassow
DATE OF DEATH October 8, 1843
Place of death Potsdam