Friedrich von Zandt

Zandt was born in 1785 and was from Würzburg, Germany.^[2]

Baron von Zandt and his wife owned the freehold property in central London's Knightsbridge district located between Brompton Road to the north-west and Walton Street to the south-east.^[3] After his death, the property was developed into a garden square by his widow in 1844, who named it Ovington Square after their house in Ovington, Hampshire.^[4] The houses surrounding the green were built from 1844 to 1850 by W.W. Pocock.^[5] While protected under the Garden Square Act and maintained under the Kensington Improvement Act, both from 1851, responsibility for the garden passed to Trustees following a settlement made by Sir John Dyer, 12th Baronet in 1912.^[4]

In c. 1840–1841, Baron von Zandt acquired Schloss Seehof in Memmelsdorf, Bamberg, which had been built in the late 1600s as a summer residence and hunting lodge for Marquard Sebastian Schenk von Stauffenberg, Prince-bishop of Bamberg.^[6] Before von Zandt, the castle and garden had been owned by the Wittelsbach family who acquired it after secularization in 1803.^[7]: 228 The property remained in the von Zandt family until the death of the last male heir, Baron Franz Joseph von Zandt, who drowned in the castle pond in 1951, after which it was sold to the von Hessberg (German: Heßberg) family. In 1975, the Free State of Bavaria acquired the property and restored it, and today is administered by the Bavarian Administration of State-Owned Palaces, Gardens and Lakes.^[7]