Quido Riedl

Nový Dvůr Arboretum

Castle at the Bílá Lhota arboretum

Castle at the Bílá Lhota arboretum

Quido Riedl (born February 7, 1878 in Weißöhlhütten ; † April 17, 1946 there ) was a German-Moravian / Czech dendrologist .

Life

Since 1869 the Riedl family owned a castle and a large property in Weißöhlhütten (Bílá Lhota) near Littau . Quido Riedl graduated from business school and studied agriculture at the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences in Vienna , at which time he was also interested in palace parks. On April 30, 1906, he married Anna Czechová in Neuhof near Troppau . This gave him the opportunity to apply his economic and dendrological knowledge.

The castle was located more in a forest than a park, in its place he began to create an English-style park, but used wood from the original forest. His mother-in-law did not build a park, the forest was a source of wood and a gain for her. In addition, the park was expensive to build. Quido Riedl was an avid collector of plants, especially wood plants. He was a member of the Czechoslovak Dendrological Society in Průhonice, where he purchased part of the seedlings. He bought and planted large and grown seedlings up to 3 meters in height. He also ordered trees from different parts of Europe. He also built romantic elements and small buildings in the park. In Nový Dvůr, a park with an area of ​​about 1.5 hectares with almost five hundred species, varieties, forms and varieties of different woods was created instead of a larger forest. For example, silver fir, Spanish fir, cypress, North American woods, American spruce, East Caucasian spruce, Atlas cedar, tripod, Japanese maple, Japanese warthogs, acacia trees, rarely grown willow pearls, and many others have been planted. Some of the trees in the park are now some of the oldest in our country.

Apart from the park and farm administration, Quido Riedl was busy breeding farm horses and wrote a book about their breeding. To this day there are traces of horse damage on some old trees. The peak of the park's construction took place between 1920 and 1926. In the thirties of the 20th century Riedl took part in the park of the castle in Borotin ( Blansko district ), of which almost nothing has survived today. At that time, the castle park in Borotín also included large kitchen gardens, which were later converted into kindergartens.

Riedl worked in Nový Dvůr until 1928, when his daughter married and he was able to give her a mansion with a castle and park as a dowry. He moved back to Bílá Lhota, where he came from. Here, too, he devoted himself to dendrology and lived here from 1926 to 1945. Around 200 specimens of plants (including bamboo, cabbage, willow) have been preserved from his time in the park. Today the park is dendrologically important and probably the richest in the Olomouc region . It was damaged during the Second World War and rebuilt after 1965, when the Homeland Research Institute in Olomouc opened an arboretum of now 2 hectares here.

The park in Nový Dvůr was maintained by Riedl's daughter Elisabeth Schubert until the end of the Second World War. In the inventory of 1957, 250 plants from Riedl's time were found in the park. The Nový Dvůr Regional Arboretum was established here on January 1st, 1958, and it has been gradually expanded and has an area of ​​22 hectares. Josef Duda and František Krkavec as well as other employees of the arboretum contributed to the current appearance and the large dendrological collection. Today it is part of the Silesian Museum .

literature

• Chráněná území okresu Olomouc

Individual evidence

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