Philipp Friedrich Krutisch

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Philipp Friedrich Wilhelm Krutisch (born March 18, 1713 in Jestädt ; † November 10, 1773 in Potsdam ) was a head gardener in the role of court gardener in the terrace area and the Melonerie of Sanssouci in Potsdam.

Live and act

Philipp Friedrich Krutisch, the son of the forester Friedrich Krutisch and Anna Agnes, née Soppe, trained as a gardener in Holland. Friedrich II. Summoned him to Potsdam in 1744, where from October 1746 he planted Taxus pyramids and fruit trees on the newly laid out vineyard terraces of the Sanssouci Palace and the ground floor below the terraces.

A separate invoice he issued in August 1747 for work in Sanssouci proves that Friedrich II had founded a third one in addition to the two districts Lustgarten and Kitchen Garden, the so-called Marlygarten , for which Krutisch took over the function of one Court gardener got. The entire ornamental and kitchen gardens of Sanssouci belonged to the new vineyard area. To study the gardens of Wilhelmsthal Palace , he traveled to Kassel on behalf of Frederick II in 1753 and, shortly before the construction work on the Chinese House , designed the environment in the Anglo-Chinoise style from 1754 , which Joachim Ludwig Heydert later continued.

His younger brother Johann Heinrich Krutisch first appeared in July 1747 and was subordinate to him from 1750 as an employee in the melonery (forcing). When he died in September 1766, he had to take over his work and was assigned to support the journeymen Friedrich Zacharias Saltzmann . However, it was difficult to work together. Saltzmann intervened […] in the rights of the Krutisch, acted independently, […], and so a violent dispute arose between the two. Krutisch, old and calm, Saltzmann, young, presumptuous, yes coarse, but he must have been favored [...] and so he [the king] ordered the division of Krutisch's territory [...] . With a cabinet order of July 12, 1767, Krutisch remained the lower bushcagen up to the obeliscum , along with the two cherry quarters in front of the picture gallery , the new mountain outside Sans Souci, the melon garden behind his house, and the peas, pineapples and peaches Houses in his own processing .

Philipp Friedrich Krutisch died in Sanssouci in 1773 and found his final resting place in the Bornstedter cemetery. His nephew Johann Jakob Krutisch was appointed successor in the melonerie.

family

From his private life it is known that he entered into two marriages and had two sons with his first wife Anna Elisabeth Brünner. A third son comes from the second marriage in July 1759 with Maria Magdalena Augusta Plümicke, the daughter of the mayor of Brandenburg Joachim Ernst Plümicke.

literature

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

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Secret State Archives of Prussian Cultural Heritage, Berlin, I. HA., Rep. 36, No. 3248
  2. ^ Karoline Schulze: History of the garden administration of the royal gardens. 1873/74. Manuscript in the Secret State Archives of Prussian Cultural Heritage, I. HA, Rep. 94, No. 814. Note: Karoline Schulze (1794–1881) was the daughter of the gardening director Johann Gottlob Schulze , local researcher and member of the Association for the History of Potsdam.
  3. ↑ Johann Jakob Krutisch (born January 16, 1749 in Hochstadt ; † November 20, 1817 in Potsdam) was the son of Johann Heinrich Krutisch and from 1773 to 1817 court gardener in the Sanssouci Melonerie.
  4. ^ SPSG: Prussian Green. P. 319.
personal data
SURNAME Krutisch, Philipp Friedrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Krutisch, Philipp Friedrich Wilhelm (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German head gardener in the function of court gardener
DATE OF BIRTH March 18, 1713
PLACE OF BIRTH Jestädt
DATE OF DEATH November 10, 1773
Place of death Potsdam