Joachim Ludwig Heydert

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Joachim Ludwig Heydert (born August 8, 1716 in Klein Glienicke , † January 3, 1794 in Potsdam ) was a royal court gardener in Potsdam.

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Joachim Ludwig Heydert was the son of the electoral gardener and planner in Klein Glienicke Martin Ludwig Heydert and comes from his second marriage to Maria Magdalena, née Hasse. In 1733 he began an apprenticeship with the court gardener of the pleasure garden district Joachim Arndt Saltzmann in Charlottenburg . After completing his apprenticeship, he started his journeyman hike in 1736 with four and a half thalers in his pocket , which first took him to Pretzsch , then Saxony , and in 1738 to Amalienborg Palace in Copenhagen. In 1739 Heydert went to the Netherlands, where he worked for the wealthy de Pinto family for seventeen years at their Tulpenburg estate near Amsterdam as a draftsman and grotto artist. The park, known at the time for its grotto work, attracted numerous visitors. So did Friedrich II , who incognito as Kapellmeister of the King of Poland visited the country seat on June 22, 1755 and called Heydert into his service.

Almost a year later, on May 30, 1756, Heydert arrived in Potsdam. With the beginning of the Seven Years' War , however, there was little for him to do, because the king had already started work limited or stopped entirely. He was initially appointed as the deputy of the court gardener Johann Michael Krempel, who was responsible for the Potsdam pleasure garden . After Heydert's death in 1759, he was in charge of this garden area, which he looked after until 1794. In the eastern part of the park of Sanssouci , the construction of the picture gallery was delayed and thus also the gardening and grotto work on the south-facing terrace wall commissioned by Heydert based on the king's sketches, which only took place after the end of the war between 1763 and 1766, which had a favorable outcome for Prussia. A small, semicircular garden parterre with cut boxwood ribbons in baroque patterns and colored glass corals as well as kitchen garden areas connected to the terrace wall to the south. The difference in height was absorbed by a putti wall named after its figurative decoration , for which the French architect Jean Laurent Legeay made the design. In the park, Heydert also took on the further execution of the garden design in the style of a " Jardin anglo-chinois " begun in 1754 under the direction of court gardener Philipp Friedrich Krutisch on the Chinese house , which was also only completed after the war, and the decoration of the grotto hall in the New Palace with minerals, shells Floss and corals.

Heydert had to look after various areas in Potsdam, which are shown in a list by the gardening director Johann Gottlob Schulze . His area of ​​responsibility included the pleasure garden and the orangery, the avenue along the communication path from the pleasure garden to the old water gate, avenue in Brandenburger Strasse, avenue in Lindenstrasse, Wilhelmplatz plantation at the post office, plantation near the garrison church , plantation around the large Dutch basin along with it Small gardens on the island there, an avenue along the canal in the city, a linden berceau in front of the picture gallery, an avenue to Novawes . He also dealt with orangery culture, cherry forcing and the cultivation of pineapples, which from Joachim Ludwig Heydert's private nursery [...] in front of the Nauener Tor are said to have been so appetizing [...] that King Friedrich II Revier [near the park exit at the green grid ] and appointed Heydert's nephew and journeyman, Conrad Pluymer, to be the pineapple gardener. The property with house north of Nauener Gate , in the former Spandau road today Friedrich-Ebert-Straße 83, bought Heydert he founded the first Potsdamer nursery for park trees 1764. On his private property to the constant demand for wood raw material for parks, roads - and to be able to cover space plantings, the cultivation and care of which was one of the most important tasks of the court gardeners.

Joachim Ludwig Heydert died in Potsdam in 1794 and found his final resting place in the village church in Stolpe . In the position of court gardener he was in an elevated social position and was one of the higher civil officials. The family donated 800 thalers and had a family crypt built in the Stolper Church. An epitaph gives information about his father, who died in 1728, his first wife Maria Margarete, née Kroocken (probably Krogh) , who died in 1777 or 1786 , other sources write Krok (Krooke) and himself, whose grave inscription Theodor Fontane in the travelogues " Five Castles " in the section "The Church of Stolpe" added. After the death of his first wife, Heydert married Katharina Pluymer in 1787 and entered into a third marriage with Katharina Elisabeth Dames, from which the future commercial gardener and business successor Martin Ludwig Heydert († 1862), born in 1788, and two other children came.

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  1. ↑ Michael Seiler, Clemens Alexander Wimmer: How court gardeners traveled . In: SPSG: Preußisch Grün ... , p. 165
  2. ^ A b Clemens Alexander Wimmer: On the history of the administration of the royal gardens in Prussia . In: SPSG: Preußisch Grün ... , p. 53
  3. ^ Lower Saxony State Archives Oldenburg, holdings 271-25, no. 52, file 87 (79), Karoline Schulze estate
  4. ↑ Gerd Schurig: Pineapple - a royal fruit . In: House of Brandenburg-Prussian History (Hrsg.): Nice and useful ... , p. 163
  5. ^ Stefan Gehlen: Hofgärtnerhaus Heydert . In: Andreas Kitschke: Ludwig Ferdinand Hesse (1795-1876). Court architect under three Prussian kings. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-422-06611-3 , p. 240
  6. ↑ a b c d Wimmer, Kober-Carrière, Schurig, Wacker: Directory of court gardeners… . In: SPSG: Preußisch Grün ... , p. 313
  7. ↑ Heinz Ohff: Peter Joseph Lenné. Berlin heads . P. 55
  8. ↑ a b Theodor Fontane: Five castles , 10. Chapter Dreilinden , 3. The Church of Stolpe . ( digital )
personal data
SURNAME Heydert, Joachim Ludwig
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Royal court gardener in Potsdam
DATE OF BIRTH August 8, 1716
PLACE OF BIRTH Klein Glienicke
DATE OF DEATH January 3, 1794
Place of death Potsdam