Julius Sckell

Julius (Otto Franz Christian) Sckell [after Lohmeyer: Julius (Otto Franz Friedrich) Sckell ] (born January 30, 1829 in Eisenach , † June 14, 1915 in Weimar ) was a Grand Ducal Saxon court gardener and later a garden inspector at the Belvedere near Weimar .

life and work

Julius Sckell comes from the famous gardening dynasty Sckell . He was a grandson of Johann Christian Sckell and the first son of Gottlieb Ludwig Eduard Sckell . His brother was Armin Sckell .

After training as a gardener, Julius Sckell went on several training trips and had various positions in Germany, Belgium, England and Paris.

In 1855 he got a job in the court gardening company in Weimar under his father. In 1857 he was appointed garden manager at Ettersburg Castle, where he, together with the court gardener Julius Hartwig , continued the design work that Eduard Petzold had begun after his departure from Weimar in 1851.

From 1873 he was appointed court gardener at the Weimar Belvedere, and in 1900 he was promoted to garden inspector there. Julius Sckell wrote two horticultural books on plant reproduction and tree nursery. He was also a member of the " Association of German Garden Artists " (VdG).

literature

• Julius Sckell: Instructions for the propagation of plants by cuttings, refinement, division etc. for gardeners and plant lovers , Leipzig: Arnold, 1st ed. 1863, 2nd verb. Ed. 1867.
• Julius Sckell: The tree nursery, its system and maintenance: In addition to information on the cultivation of all tree and shrub-like woody plants in the free state , Leipzig, 1st edition. 1864, 2nd verb. Ed. 1867.
• Gartenkunst (magazine), Vol. 2, 1900, H. 9, p. 172, as well as H. 10, p. 188.
• Otto Sckell: Pedigree of Julius Otto Franz Christian Sckell: Garden conductor to Ettersburg, court gardener and garden inspector in Belvedere b. Weimar, b. Eisenach January 30, 1829, died Weimar (retired) June 14 , 1915 , published approx. 1920. Contained in: Family table of the Sckell's: Thuringian line with inclusion of the Argentinian and Swiss branch , ca.1944.
• Karl Lohmeyer: Family table Die Sckell , in: Southwest German Gardens of Baroque and Romanticism with their domestic and foreign models based on the working material of the Saarland and Palatinate court gardener family the Koellner , (Saarbrücker Abhandlungen zur Südwestdeutschen Kunst und Kultur, Vol. 1), Saarbrücken, 1937, p. 16.
• Gert Gröning, Joachim Wolschke-Bulmahn : Green biographies. Biographical handbook on landscape architecture of the 20th century in Germany , Berlin [u. a.]: Patzer, 1997, p. 360. ISBN 3-87617-089-3 .