Wilhelm Nietner

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Wilhelm Nietner (* 1802 in Schönholz , † April 2, 1871 in Potsdam ) was a royal court gardener in the Schwedt palace garden and in the melonerie (forcing) in the Sanssouci Park in Potsdam .

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Wilhelm Nietner, who came from a gardening dynasty, was the son of the Planteur, later court gardener Friedrich Nietner and the Berlin innkeeper, Johanna Luise, née Thume (around 1778–1848).

Like his older brother Eduard , Wilhelm Nietner continued the family tradition and learned the gardening trade. After completing his training, he went on a journey to Vienna, Munich, Karlsruhe and Schwetzingen from 1825 to 1827 on a royal travel grant.

In 1838 he was appointed court gardener to the palace gardens in Schwedt, which Peter Joseph Lenné had transformed from a baroque garden into a landscape garden and in 1859 to Potsdam in the Sanssouci park. There he took over the office of his brother Eduard, who died in August of the same year, in the melonery area on the southern edge of the park. His area of ​​activity included a pineapple house west of the Green Grid , melon, peach, plum and pea houses, warm and cold drift walls for fruit and vegetables, numerous melon boxes and open-air beds between the houses and the terraced vineyard at the Triumphtor with five cold drift walls.

When Wilhelm Nietner died, he found his final resting place in the Bornstedt cemetery .

See also

literature

  • Foundation Prussian Palaces and Gardens Berlin-Brandenburg (Ed.): Prussian Green. Court gardener in Brandenburg-Prussia . Henschel, Potsdam 2004, ISBN 3-89487-489-9 , p. 328

Individual evidence

  1. ^ City of Schwedt / Oder: European Huguenot Park with Baroque sculptures (accessed on July 11, 2012).
  2. ↑ Gerd Schurig: The fruits of the court gardeners . In: Foundation Prussian Palaces and Gardens Berlin-Brandenburg: Nothing thrives without care. The Potsdam park landscape and its gardeners . Potsdam / Berlin 2001, p. 293.
  3. ^ Karlheinz Deisenroth: Märkische burial place in courtly splendor. The Bornstedt cemetery in Potsdam . Berlin 2003, p. 432.
personal data
SURNAME Nietner, Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Royal court gardener in the Schwedt and Sanssouci palace gardens
DATE OF BIRTH 1802
PLACE OF BIRTH Schönholz
DATE OF DEATH April 2, 1871
Place of death Potsdam