Johann Jonas Christian Tatter

Johann Jonas Christian Tatter (born January 29, 1729 at Sophienlust Palace near Meiningen ; † July 2, 1812 in Monbrillant Palace ) was a Royal British and Electoral Brunswick-Lüneburg garden master and court master in Herrenhausen and Monbrillant outside Hanover during the personal union between Great Britain and Hanover .

Life

The royal “Plantage Garden” founded in 1767 in Herrenhausen, northeast of the Great Garden and the Berggarten ; Plan of Hanover and the surrounding area
recorded by Pentz and Bennefeld , copper engraving from 1807 by Franz in Berlin (detail)

Johann Jonas Christian Tatter was a member of the Tatter family of gardeners and court gardeners, who had been known in the Saxon-Thuringian region since the first half of the 17th century . He was a son of Georg Ernst Tatter (1689–1755) and a brother of Johann Wilhelm Tatter (1719–1795).

From 1756 Tatter worked as a journeyman in the orangeries in Herrenhausen, and from 1763 as a master journeyman in the kitchen garden in Linden near Hanover.

During a study trip from 1765 onwards, Tatter received from King George III in London in November 1766 . the order to set up "a nursery and tree school " in the vicinity of the royal seat of Hanover - which the sovereign never visited . There, foreign trees should then be tested for their compatibility with the local climate for the royal court gardens and - "[...] for the good of our subjects ."

After his return to the Electorate of Hanover, Tatter was hired as a gardener in Herrenhausen and began in the Royal Plantation, which was founded in 1767, with the sowing of the tree seeds, which now come annually from England and mainly from North America.

But from 1772 Johann Jonas Christian Tatter was already working in the grounds of Monbrillant Palace. The baroque gardens planned by Ernst August Charbonnier around half a century ago in 1720 were then gradually transformed into a landscape garden according to plans by Tatter towards the end of the 18th century . Although the basic geometric structure of the gardens was retained, Tatter's work was a further step in the development of the later Welfengarten at Leibniz University in the middle of the Herrenhausen Gardens .

literature

• Heike Palm, Hubert Rettich: The orangery gardener Georg Ernst Tatter and his sons. The working and living environment of a Hanoverian court gardener family of the 18th century. In: Arbeitskreis Orangerie in Deutschland (Ed.): "From the orangery ..." and other garden stories. Festschrift for Heinrich Hamann. Potsdam 2002, pp. 140-170
• Hubert Rettich, Michael Rohde: Great gardeners Herrenhausen. In: Marieanne von König (Ed.): Herrenhausen. The Royal Gardens in Hanover . Wallstein Verlag, Göttingen, 2006, ISBN 978-3-8353-0053-8 and ISBN 3-8353-0053-9 , pp. 270f .; Preview over google books

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} Helmut Knocke : Tatter. In: Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein (eds.) U. a .: City Lexicon Hanover . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2009, ISBN 978-3-89993-662-9 , p. 616f.
2. ↑ ^{a b c d e} o.V. : Tatter, Johann Jonas Christian in the database of Niedersächsische Personen (new entry required) of the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Library - Lower Saxony State Library in the version of April 3, 2012, last accessed on January 29, 2017
3. ↑ ^{a b} Heike Palm: The “Royal Plantation” in Hanover-Herrenhausen - New Plants for the Country (PDF document) from denkmalpflege.tu-berlin.de , last accessed on January 31, 2017
4. ↑ Juliane Stephan, Joachim Wolschke-Bulmahn , Christian Werthmann : A park between history and everyday life. New ideas for the Welfengarten PDF document as an excerpt from a magazine (2013 or later, pp. 16-19) on the page of the Friends of the Herrenhausen Gardens , last accessed on January 31, 2017