Johann Zacharias Saltzmann

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Johann Zacharias Saltzmann , also Salzmann (born June 28, 1777 in Potsdam , † November 30, 1810 ibid) was a royal court gardener in the terrace area of ​​Potsdam's Sanssouci park .

Live and act

Johann Zacharias Saltzmann, who came from a family of gardeners, was born in a gardener's house, which later became the garden management building south of Sanssouci Palace. He was the son of the court gardener in the terrace area Friedrich Zacharias Saltzmann and Carolina Wilhelmina, née Hofmann (1738–1803), daughter of a merchant from Peine .

Following the family tradition, he learned the gardening profession and completed his apprenticeship in the orangery district of Sanssouci with court gardener Anton Hillner (1749-1817). When his father, the proud Salzmann in the terrace area , died in 1801, at the suggestion of the garden manager Valentin von Massow, not Salzmann's insignificant son Johann Zacharias, but Georg Steiner should succeed him. However, since Steiner was appointed to the pleasure garden of Charlottenburg Palace to replace Johann August Eyserbeck , who also died there in 1801 , Johann Zacharias Saltzmann finally got the office of court gardener in the terrace area. His main tasks included the management and maintenance of the six vineyard terraces on the south side of the Sanssouci Palace and the four cherry quarters below the new chambers with the greenhouses belonging to the district.

After nine years of activity in Sanssouci, Saltzmann died in 1810 at the age of 33 and found his final resting place in the Bornstedt cemetery . His successor was the gardener from the dynasty Sello originating Ludwig Sello .

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. 330

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Michael Seiler. In: Foundation Prussian Palaces and Gardens Berlin-Brandenburg: Nothing thrives without care. The Potsdam park landscape and its gardeners . Potsdam 2001, p. 212. In SPSG: Prussian Green . P. 330, the name is given as Wilhelmine Henriette Caroline Hoffmann .
  2. ↑ a b c Clemens Alexander Wimmer: On the history of the administration of the royal gardens in Prussia . In: SPSG: Prussian Green . P. 77.
  3. ↑ The grave no longer exists. Cf. Karlheinz Deisenroth: Märkische Gravege in courtly splendor. The Bornstedt cemetery in Potsdam . 2003, p. 101.
personal data
SURNAME Saltzmann, Johann Zacharias
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Salzmann, Johann Zacharias
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Royal court gardener in the terrace area of ​​Potsdam's Sanssouci Park
DATE OF BIRTH June 28, 1777
PLACE OF BIRTH Potsdam
DATE OF DEATH November 30, 1810
Place of death Potsdam