Johann Ludwig Petri

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Johann Ludwig I Petri (* 1714 in Eisenach ; † 1794 in Zweibrücken ) was an important horticultural artist of the 18th century. His most famous work is the baroque garden in Schwetzingen Castle .

Life

After training as a garden architect in Paris, Petri worked as a court gardener from Nassau-Saarbrücken in Saarbrücken around 1740 . In 1741 he married Sophie Charlotte Köllner, whose father Johann Arndt Köllner was employed as a court gardener at the court of Duke Christian IV of Pfalz-Zweibrücken . The marriage resulted in a son who died in 1755 at the age of six. After the death of his father-in-law in 1742, Petri was his successor. As court gardener in Zweibrücken, he extended the palace garden as a publicly accessible green axis of the city to over the Schwarzbach along the canal and created the avenue on the Schwarzbach that still exists today with plane trees and a wide walkway in the middle.

Aerial view of the baroque garden, Schwetzingen Castle

In 1753 Petri was seconded by Duke Christian IV to his relative, the Palatinate Elector Karl Theodor, in Schwetzingen. There Petri designed his most famous work, the baroque palace garden preserved to this day in the French style. His parallel activity in Zweibrücken and Schwetzingen lasted until 1758, when Karl Theodor hired another court gardener and Petri, offended, asked for his dismissal.

Back in Zweibrücken, Petri devoted himself over the next few years to converting Tschifflik Park into a pheasantry and designing Christian IV's hunting lodges in Jägersburg and Pettersheim . From 1766 Petri worked with his nephew Ernst August Bernhard Petri . In 1767 Johann Ludwig Petri was appointed to the government council (Ökonomierat). Under Duke Karl II August , the gardeners from the Petri family planned and designed the Karlslust of the Karlsberg Palace .

Johann Ludwig Petri died in Zweibrücken in 1794.

Works

  • Zweibrücken court garden
  • Tschifflik Zweibrücken
  • Jagdschloss Jägersburg
  • Herschweiler Pettersheim hunting lodge
  • Schwetzingen Castle
  • Karlsberg Castle

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Heidelberger Geschichtsverein eV: Johann Ludwig I Petri. Retrieved January 1, 2018 .
  2. ↑ a b Andrea Dittgen: Thank you Petri . In: The Rhine Palatinate . July 26, 2014.
  3. ^ Wilhelm Weber : Karlsberg Castle. The forgotten residence of Duke Karl II August (=  Bavaria Antiqua ). Bayerische Vereinsbank, Munich 1984, p. 25 .
personal data
SURNAME Petri, Johann Ludwig
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Petri, Johann Ludwig I
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German horticultural artist
DATE OF BIRTH 1714
PLACE OF BIRTH Eisenach
DATE OF DEATH 1794
Place of death Zweibrücken