Agnes von Hahn
Agnes Louise Sophie Ernestine Countess von Hahn , b. Countess von Schlippenbach (born May 29, 1812 in Prenzlau , † April 5, 1857 in Basedow ) was a Mecklenburg trellis fruit grower .
Live and act
Agnes Countess von Hahn was a daughter of the royal Prussian chamberlain Carl Friedrich Wilhelm Graf von Schlippenbach on Schönermark and Arendsee. She came from a branch of the Schlippenbach family who - returning from the Baltic States via Sweden in 1686 - had settled down in the same year with large estates around Schönermark in Brandenburg .
On March 15, 1830, she married the Mecklenburg landowner, horse breeder, gentleman rider, racing stable owner and hereditary marshal of Stargard , Count Friedrich von Hahn (1804-1859). There were four children from this marriage: Anna (1830-1894), Kuno (1832-1885), Werner (* 1836) and Max (1838-1903).
During their marriage, the count couple emerged with extensive construction work on the Basedow family estate as well as on other estates, which the couple's double monogram "FvH | AvH" attests to on numerous buildings to this day.
In 1853 she visited Paris with her brother, the large landowner Albert von Schlippenbach , and was very impressed by the quality of the fruit on offer there. The siblings decided to first get information about the technique of fruit growing on walls in France and then to establish new cultivation techniques and types of fruit in their home country Mecklenburg in order to be able to produce high-quality fruit there as well. During their stay in France, they also visited the orchards of Alexis Lepère the elder , who was known for his special skills and knowledge of peach culture. His son, Alexis Lepère the Younger , offered to travel to Mecklenburg the following spring to plant table fruit crops on trellis fruit walls.
Agnes von Hahn was an honorary member of the Association for Mecklenburg History and Archeology and the recipient of the first volume of Hahn's gender history by Georg Christian Friedrich Lisch (4 volumes, 1844-1856).
In 1846 Fritz Reuter published anonymously in the yearbooks Meklenburgisches Volksbuch for the year 1846 and Meklenburg, edited by Wilhelm Raabe . A yearbook for all estates , born in 1847 (both Hamburg) his aristocratic satire A count's birthday: The celebration of the birthday of the ruling Countess, as it happened on May 29th and 30th, 1842 in the appraisal . The lavish celebration of the 30th birthday of Countess Agnes described by Reuter concludes with the verse: "If the hen crows and the cock is silent, then the house is not a bad way!" .
Helmut Sakowski set her a literary monument in his Klevenow trilogy (1993, 1994, 2000) as "Countess Swan" .
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Arendsee and the finer fruit growing of the Count of Schlippenbach. In: Weekly of the Association for the Promotion of Horticulture in the Royal Prussian States for Horticulture and Herbology. No. 30, Berlin, July 30, 1864, p. 233 f.
- ↑ Full text at Projekt Gutenberg-DE
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| SURNAME | Hahn, Agnes von |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Hahn, Agnes Louise Sophie Ernestine von (full name); Schlippenbach, Agnes von (maiden name); Schlippenbach, Agnes Louise Sophie Ernestine von (Christian name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German noble fruit grower |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 29, 1812 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Prenzlau |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 5, 1857 |
| Place of death | Basedow |