Martin Ludwig Heydert

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Martin Ludwig Heydert (* 1656 in Rahten ( Ratyń ) in the Duchy of Oels , Silesia , † August 1728 in Potsdam ) was an electoral gardener and planner.

Live and act

Wannsee Martin-Heydert-Strasse

Martin Ludwig Heydert received his training as a gardener in the castle gardens of Oels . After completing his apprenticeship, he began the journeyman's migration , which took him to Saxony, Hesse, France and Holland. In 1686 he followed the call of the Great Elector Friedrich Wilhelm to Brandenburg to manage the horticultural work of the pleasure garden at the Glienicke hunting lodge, which was laid out from 1680 . This also included a bitter orange house, two vineyards, a tree garden with 5000 trees and four fish ponds . When the soldier king Friedrich Wilhelm I took office , the employment relationship ended in 1713, as the palace and garden were to be leased. Heydert was now able to cultivate the garden as a kitchen garden for a lease. A hospital was set up in the hunting lodge at the end of 1715.


In 1976, a street was named after him in the Wannsee district of Berlin.

family

Two years after arriving in Brandenburg in 1688, Martin Ludwig Heydert married Aletta Silberling from Cleve , with whom he had seven children. The second marriage in 1714 to Maria Magdalena Hasse, the daughter of the elector's body coach, gave birth to three children, including the future court gardener Joachim Ludwig . Heydert died in Potsdam in 1728 and found his final resting place in the village church in Stolpe . The family donated 800 thalers and had a family crypt built in the Stolper Church. An epitaph gives information about him, his son Joachim Ludwig, who died in 1794, and his first wife Maria Margarete, whose grave inscription Theodor Fontane included in the travelogues “ Five Castles ” in the section The Church of Stolpe .

literature

  • Foundation Prussian Palaces and Gardens Berlin-Brandenburg (Ed.): Nothing thrives without care. The Potsdam park landscape and its gardeners . Exhibition catalog, Potsdam 2001, p. 30
  • Foundation Prussian Palaces and Gardens Berlin-Brandenburg (Ed.): Prussian Green. Court gardener in Brandenburg-Prussia . Henschel Verlag, Potsdam 2004, ISBN 3-89487-489-9 , p. 313

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ SPSG: Nothing thrives without care , p. 36
  2. ^ A b Wimmer, Kober-Carrière, Schurig, Wacker: Directory of court gardeners… . In: SPSG: Preußisch Grün ... , p. 313
  3. ↑ Heinz Ohff: Peter Joseph Lenné. Berlin heads . P. 55
  4. ↑ Theodor Fontane: Five castles , 10. Chapter Dreilinden , 3. The Church of Stolpe . ( digital )
personal data
SURNAME Heydert, Martin Ludwig
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Electoral court gardener
DATE OF BIRTH 1656
PLACE OF BIRTH Ratyń , Duchy of Oels , Silesia
DATE OF DEATH August 1728
Place of death Potsdam