Johann Georg Steiner (gardener)
Johann Georg Steiner (* 1739 in Hesse ; † December 24, 1807 in Potsdam ) was a Prussian court gardener .
Life
From 1769, Johann Georg Steiner was the court gardener responsible for the "Pisang forcing" ( banana forcing ) area in Sanssouci . In 1786 he was temporarily used in the pleasure garden of the Potsdam City Palace under Joachim Ludwig Heydert . From 1794 he was solely responsible for the pleasure garden.
As the successor to Johann August Eyserbeck in the management of the royal garden administration Charlottenburg under Friedrich Wilhelm III. From 1801/1802 he continued the redesign and expansion of the Charlottenburg Palace Gardens, which had already begun in 1788 under Friedrich Wilhelm II, from a baroque garden to a landscape garden . The two garden managers had new channels dug and thus created the Belvedere Island and the Luisen Island. This landscaping was continued and completed by Peter Joseph Lenné from 1819 .
A green area around the church of Alt-Lietzow (a hippodrome-like lawn bordered by a row of linden trees), which was laid out shortly before 1824 after the churchyard was abandoned, probably also goes back to Johann Georg Steiner.
In addition, he was involved in the redesign of the “Nauenschen Plantage” laid out by Heydert (later Wilhelmplatz, today Platz der Einheit) under Friedrich II. The central planting of the square was cleared, and a new circular path with further diagonal and cross paths was created. Steiner planted linden and pyramid poplars along the newly laid out paths.
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| SURNAME | Steiner, Johann Georg |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Prussian court gardener |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1739 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hesse |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 24, 1807 |
| Place of death | Potsdam |