Simon Pölzel

Simon Pölzel (* around 1734 in Styria ; † 1806 at Greifenstein Castle ) was a landscape gardener.

Pölzel received his training in Vienna in the imperial Augarten and in the garden of Prince Kanmitz . During his time as a journeyman he worked in the Geyerswörthgarten in Bamberg . The construction of the convent garden of Kloster Banz goes back to Pölzel ; He was also involved in the design of the park of the Jägersburg near Forchheim . His main work, however, was the expansion and redesign of the Greifenstein Castle Park under the von Stauffenberg family , with whom he was in service from around 1765. Pölzel created a landscape garden based on the English model from the originally stiff and symmetrical baroque layout in the French style, whose changing leaves and flowers were worth seeing all year round and into which he integrated a number of plants from his Austrian homeland, which are still in the overgrown area today can be found. Among them are the brown cranesbill , the large-leaved usury flower and the fragrant umbel .

Pölzel was honored as hortulanus zelosissimus and after his death he was buried in the castle park he designed. His grave, which was described as a piece of flowers in a park description from 1810, can hardly be recognized today. Young trees are now growing on the ledge, to which seven steps lead up. An inscription on a rock section in the former castle park may have praised the talented gardener, but it can no longer be reliably deciphered.

Web links

• Pölzel's life data

literature

• Karl Sitzmann, artist and craftsman in Eastern Franconia , Kulmbach 1983, p. 50
• Eckehart Weiß, rediscovered things from the sunken gardens - a bouquet of flowers by Simon Pölzel, castle gardener in Greifenstein , in: Heimat Bamberger Land 3/4, 1995, pp. 97-104