Justus Ehrenreich Sello

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Justus Ehrenreich Sello (* baptized on September 14, 1758 in Berlin ; † March 8, 1818 there ) was a royal planner in the Berlin zoo .

Live and act

Plan of the "New Part" from 1792

Justus Ehrenreich Sello came from the first marriage of the Royal Planteur in the Berlin zoo Ehrenreich Wilhelm Sello with Anna Magdalena, née Seiler († 1766).

Like his older brother Wilhelm, he learned to be a gardener and, after his father's death in 1795, was the third generation to take over the position of planner in the zoo. His grandfather Johann Justus Sello had already worked there and designed the area with Georg Wenzeslaus von Knobelsdorff into a baroque pleasure park. Justus Ehrenreich Sello has now transformed part of the zoo into a sentimental landscape garden and, among other things, from 1792 created the water-rich "New Part" with the Rousseau Island .

After his death, the planteur position in the zoo was saved and on April 27, 1819 the tasks were transferred to the chief forester Karl Friedrich Simon Fintelmann (1775-1837) from the gardening dynasty Fintelmann .

See also

Family tree of the gardener family Sello (extract)

literature

  • Foundation Prussian Palaces and Gardens Berlin-Brandenburg (Ed.): Prussian Green. Court gardener in Brandenburg-Prussia . Henschel, Potsdam 2004, ISBN 3-89487-489-9 , pp. 332f

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Folkwin Wendland: The Great Tiergarten in Berlin. Its history and development in five centuries . Gebrüder Mann, Berlin 1993, p. 83.
personal data
SURNAME Sello, Justus Ehrenreich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Royal Planteur in the Tiergarten , Berlin
DATE OF BIRTH September 1758
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH March 8, 1818
Place of death Berlin