Theodor Klett

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Portrait of Theodor Kletts, woodcut by Emil Schröter (1882)

Theodor Klett , completely Johann Friedrich Hinrich Dethloff Theodor Klett (born February 25, 1808 in Schwerin , † July 29, 1882 there ), was a German garden architect.

Life

Theodor Klett came from a family that had been gardeners at the (great) ducal court of Mecklenburg-Schwerin and previously in Württemberg for generations : his great-grandfather Heinrich Klett (around 1710–1785) was a wine grower at the Württemberg court; likewise his grandfather Peter Heinrich Klett (around 1735–1798), who was brought to Schwerin in 1756 by the Duchess Louise Friederike, a born princess of Württemberg. His father Christian Daniel Friedrich Klett (1774–1845) was a court gardener.

After attending the Fridericianum grammar school in Schwerin, Klett did an apprenticeship with the Prussian court gardener Georg Steiner (1774–1834) in Berlin-Charlottenburg . Then in the 1820s he undertook a training trip to Vienna and Hungary to the imperial-royal and princely gardens of the Danube monarchy with the Saxon court gardener Karl Ludwig Terscheck (1810-1893), financed by the Grand Duke Friedrich Franz I. At the beginning of the 1830s he returned to Schwerin and became head gardener under his father.

Schwerin Castle Garden

Schwerin Palace and Gardens 2012

In 1835 his father retired and Theodor Klett was appointed court gardener in Mecklenburg-Schwerin in his place. He was thus responsible for the grand ducal palace gardens in Ludwigslust and Schwerin. In the course of the redesign of the Schwerin Palace , the Schwerin Palace Park was also to be expanded and redesigned, which was last given a new version in 1708 by the engineer von Hammerstein according to plans by André Le Nôtres . He took care of the enlargement of the palace garden by means of the plant at the exit gate to the grinding mill and the planting of the old garden with linden trees ; in the years 1838 and 1839 he managed the plant on the Ostorfer Feldmark up to the Chaussee according to the plans of Peter Joseph Lenné ; In 1843, Lenné's plans were carried out in the castle gardens surrounding the castle . In 1860 the gardens between Ludwigsluster Chaussee and Ostorf were created according to his designs; In 1861 the canals in the front part of the palace garden were filled in and arcades made of hornbeam were laid out here; This was followed by the Zippendorfer Chaussee (today Schlossgartenallee), where Hermann Willebrand built the court gardener establishment for him in 1856 , and the complex at Faulen See . The building of the Franzosenweg was his last work in 1870/71.

Estate gardens and parks

Klett was also in demand as a garden architect outside the courtyard. According to his plans, gardens and parks were created at numerous mansions and castles in Mecklenburg, for example at Ivenack Castle , in Tressow , at Basedow Castle and in Groß Potrems . In Holstein, Klett designed gardens on the estate of Chamberlain von Bülow and on Gut Ascheberg ; He also redesigned several facilities in Pomerania .

Old graveyard

In 1862 Klett went on a study trip to Paris and visited the Père Lachaise and Cimetière de Montmartre cemeteries . This resulted in his landscape gardening design Der Gottesacker zu Schwerin , after which the old cemetery was designed.

Klett took part in the World Exhibition in Paris in 1867 and in the International Horticultural Exhibition in Amsterdam in 1877 as well as in the horticultural exhibitions in Erfurt (1865) and Hamburg (1869), where he also served as a judge. In 1870 he traveled to Italy at the invitation of Grand Duke Friedrich Franz II .

He died of blood poisoning after a failed cancer operation and was buried in the old cemetery in Schwerin, where a boulder with a memorial plaque has been in memory of him since 2007 . His son August Klett also became a court gardener in Schwerin and built the park at the Schwerin State Museum according to his father's plans. As his own work, only the first design of the Schwerin Moltkeplatz in the years 1883/84, today Platz der Freiheit, is known. When he retired in 1907, his family members' 150 years of activity on the farm in Schwerin ended. Theodor Klett's daughter Marie (1842–1908) married the Schwerin court theater director and son of Georg Steiner, Julius Steiner , in 1877 .

Awards

literature

  • Hermann Jäger : German Gardeners XVIII: Garden Director Theodor Klett , in: Deutsche Gärtner-Zeitung 6 (1882), pp. 353–354.
  • Grete Grewolls: Who was who in Mecklenburg and Western Pomerania. The dictionary of persons . Hinstorff Verlag, Rostock 2011, ISBN 978-3-356-01301-6 , p. 5064 .
  • Christine Rehberg-Credé: Theodor Klett: "... one of the most excellent gardeners". With a foreword by Prof. Dr. Michael Seiler . Schwerin: State capital Schwerin 2010 ISBN 978-3-9813709-0-4

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Deutsche Gärtner-Zeitung (lit.), p. 354.
  2. ↑ Schwerin City Archives, municipal files, signature M 4325.
personal data
SURNAME Klett, Theodor
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Klett, Johann Friedrich Hinrich Dethloff Theodor (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German garden architect
DATE OF BIRTH February 25, 1808
PLACE OF BIRTH Schwerin
DATE OF DEATH July 29, 1882
Place of death Schwerin