His father's hunting lodges and hunting grounds became deserted [because Fritz didn't like hunting], and the care of the game began to cease. Against this a commission was set up, consisting of the Landjägermeister v. Schwerin [Hans Bogislav by the way, brother of the field marshall], lieutenant colonel v. Keith and the sur-intendant v. Knobelsdorff to make suggestions for converting the Tiergarten into a tasteful pleasure forest, according to which Knobelsdorff should design the facilities. For this purpose, the entire forest terrain was surveyed in 1742, the extent of which was determined to be 820 acres.
and later:
... Raumer says about the creation of this establishment: Lieutenant Colonel v. Keith, who after Knobelsdorff's death was in charge of the management of the Charlottenburg Palace Gardens, of the avenues and plantations in the Tiergarten during the years 1754 and 1755, had some old furniture from that palace sold in order to use the proceeds to build a mulberry plantation on the empty space at the confluence of the Landwehrgraben and the Spree, whereby the Tiergartenpflanzkasse should receive an income. The plantation created by the Planteur Sello only existed for a few years, ...
Neither Meyer nor Raumer mention the name Peter and usually I'd suspect possible confusion of Keiths, but together with the Lehndorff info, the second part at least make perfect sense. The first one, though! That must have been very early, 1741/42, and that would be brand-new information if that was Peter already. But it could explain how he and Knobelsdorff became friends.
In the preface, Raumer says he collected information from books and handwritten sources and he does quote a couple of cabinet orders from Fritz to Schwerin verbatim for example, so he must indeed have had access to something. But 1840 is where this train stops so far.
(Raumer also mentions the Jägerhof by the way (at the Schinkenplatz, which is correct, if colloquial), and that it was turned into a bank in 1765, but to heighten the confusion, there's no mention of Keith at all, on the contrary, he says that the Oberjägermeister was still living there. *throws up hands* Given the info from the address calendar, which seems to place Peter's house on the other side of the water, too, I'm maybe possibly doubting Lehndorff a bit here? Or maybe there were several buildings? *throws up hands again*)
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Re: Manger, Knobelsdorff - and Peter Keith!
Date: 2021-03-20 12:54 am (UTC)A Tiergarten history by Meyer, from 1892, says:
His father's hunting lodges and hunting grounds became deserted [because Fritz didn't like hunting], and the care of the game began to cease. Against this a commission was set up, consisting of the Landjägermeister v. Schwerin [Hans Bogislav by the way, brother of the field marshall], lieutenant colonel v. Keith and the sur-intendant v. Knobelsdorff to make suggestions for converting the Tiergarten into a tasteful pleasure forest, according to which Knobelsdorff should design the facilities. For this purpose, the entire forest terrain was surveyed in 1742, the extent of which was determined to be 820 acres.
and later:
... Raumer says about the creation of this establishment: Lieutenant Colonel v. Keith, who after Knobelsdorff's death was in charge of the management of the Charlottenburg Palace Gardens, of the avenues and plantations in the Tiergarten during the years 1754 and 1755, had some old furniture from that palace sold in order to use the proceeds to build a mulberry plantation on the empty space at the confluence of the Landwehrgraben and the Spree, whereby the Tiergartenpflanzkasse should receive an income. The plantation created by the Planteur Sello only existed for a few years, ...
Raumer = this even earlier Tiergarten history from 1840, which does indeed mention both the early commission and the second story about Keith in charge and the mulberry plantation.
Neither Meyer nor Raumer mention the name Peter and usually I'd suspect possible confusion of Keiths, but together with the Lehndorff info, the second part at least make perfect sense.
The first one, though! That must have been very early, 1741/42, and that would be brand-new information if that was Peter already. But it could explain how he and Knobelsdorff became friends.
In the preface, Raumer says he collected information from books and handwritten sources and he does quote a couple of cabinet orders from Fritz to Schwerin verbatim for example, so he must indeed have had access to something. But 1840 is where this train stops so far.
(Raumer also mentions the Jägerhof by the way (at the Schinkenplatz, which is correct, if colloquial), and that it was turned into a bank in 1765, but to heighten the confusion, there's no mention of Keith at all, on the contrary, he says that the Oberjägermeister was still living there. *throws up hands* Given the info from the address calendar, which seems to place Peter's house on the other side of the water, too, I'm maybe possibly doubting Lehndorff a bit here? Or maybe there were several buildings? *throws up hands again*)