Johann Christian Schuch

Johann Christian Schuch (Polish January Chrystian Szuch ) (* 1752 in Dresden, † June 28, 1813 in Warsaw) was a garden and landscape designer. He was head gardener of King Stanisław August Poniatowski and working in Warsaw since 1775.

He learned gardening from his father, who was head gardener at the Dresden Wettin court and continued the study of art at the Academy of Fine Arts in Dresden continued. He visited the parks Kew Gardens, Schönbrunn and Versailles.

In 1775 he came to Poland, where he was employed first at the Princess Izabella Lubomirska and the Count Michał Jerzy Mniszech ( 1742-1806 ). He designed the parks in the former Warsaw suburb Mokotów in Dęblin.

In 1781 he was appointed by King Stanisław August Poniatowski to the intendant of the royal gardens. Together with Johann Christian Kamsetzer and Domenico Merlini he designed the transformation of the Royal Baths Park into an English landscape garden. He also designed the park in Wilanów.

As a city planner, he created two star-shaped spaces on the Warsaw Marszałkowska Street.

Schuch established the first fruit tree nursery in Poland.

In 1811 he was elected a member of the Warsaw Society of Friends of Sciences.

He married Ludwika Wolska. His son, the architect Adolf Gregor Franz Schuch (1792-1880), took part in the November Uprising in 1831.

Johann Christian Schuch was buried in the Evangelical-Augsburg Cemetery in Warsaw. After the First World War was named an avenue near the Royal Baths Park after him. Monumental buildings of foreign and education ministries were erected on the avenue. The Ministry of Education was 1939-1944 seat of the Warsaw Gestapo.