Carl von Effner
Carl von Effner ( born February 10, 1831 in Munich, † October 22, 1884 ibid; since 1877 in the peerage; Karl von Effner and Carl Joseph Effner ) was a Bavarian court gardener, later Royal Bavarian Court Garden and garden designers.
Genealogy
Carl von Effner came from the veteran royal Bavarian Hofgärtnerfamilie Effner.
He was a great-grandson of the famous architect Joseph Effner (1687-1745) and son of the Bavarian Oberhof gardener Carl Effner sen. ( 1791-1870 ).
Life
After a gardening apprenticeship with his father, he was 1850-54 to journeyman travels, which were financed by Maximilian II. He came to Vienna, among other things, Ghent, Paris, England and Sanssouci. Lenne made him vertratut with his former projects, among whom were also working for the Bavarian king. Effner learned in Sanssouci also the so-called " mixed style " of the famous Prussian landscape architect Peter Joseph Lenne for the design of regular ornamental garden areas within scenic gardens as they were back in fashion from about the middle of the 19th century, know. This meeting was the decision to intervene in him to dedicate himself to landscape gardening. In Ghent, he worked as an art teacher in a private school associated with the gardener Louis van Houtte.
In this study trips he was accompanied by the later Inspector of the Botanical Garden in Munich, Max Kolb, an illegitimate son of Max Joseph of Bavaria.
1854 King Maximilian II called him (reigned 1848-1864 ) returned to Munich, where he worked on the design of the systems designed by Lenne on Feldafing. He appointed him in 1857 at the age of 26 years to the court gardener. From 1860 to 1865 he worked as Deputy Oberhof gardener in Obersthofmarschallstabe. Maximilian commissioned Effner with the design of the banks of the Isar between Haidhausen and bow Hausen (later called Maximilian Park ) and the horticultural design of the planned by Friedrich Maximilian Bürklein street.
A few years later, in 1868, Effner ( accession March 10, 1864 ) was appointed Oberhof gardeners and appointed head of all Bavarian courtyard gardens of the new Bavarian King Ludwig II.
1870 appointed him king Ludwig II to the royal courtyard Inspector and 1873 to the Royal Court Garden. He then designed the gardens of the famous castles of King Ludwig II, Herrenchiemsee and Linderhof.
In addition, several private gardens come in Bavaria by Carl von Effner.
Mostly he worked in the investment of early gardens along with his father.
Carl von Effner died on 22 October 1884. He is on the Old South Cemetery in Munich, grave location 13-1-34, buried.
Works
(Selection)
- Together with his father horticultural execution of the plans by Peter Joseph Lenne for the Landscape Park Feldafing on the western shore of Lake Starnberg, 1853-1863.
- Park in Bern Ried on Lake Starnberg am Starnberger lake ( now owned by the Wilhelmina Busch Woods Foundation ) to 1855.
- Maximilian in Munich in 1856/57-1861, horticultural design of the Maximilian street itself, and Gasteig resorts south of the Maximilianeum ( changed today and part of the Maximilian Park ), from 1861-66.
- Restoration of the park of Schloss Schleissheim to historical patterns, 1865-68.
- Dörnbergpark on Dörnberg Palace in Regensburg, 1864-1867 together with his father.
- Probably 1864-1870 Park on Midgard - house in Tutzing ( formerly known as Tutzinger sea world, today Bagneres -de- Bigarre Park) for the writer Maximilian Schmidt ( 1832-1919 ).
- Kurpark in Bad Reichenhall 1868.
- Expansion of the park of Schloss Castell to 1870.
- Park of Linderhof Palace, 1870/72-1880.
- Complement of the Tegernsee Castle Garden by carpet beds, 1872
- Siebentisch Park in Augsburg, 1874
- Park of Schloss Herrenchiemsee, plans of 1875 /76 followed by reaction unfinished; 1888 simplifies completed by his successor James Mohl.
- Park of Schloss Schönau at Eggenfelden
- Park of castle Vornbach with rock grotto.
- Park of castle Fuerstenried in Munich ( after restoration of historical models of the 18th century and creating a new landscape garden )