Amalie von Gollowin

Amalie Dorothea Benedicte von Gollowin (born June 30, 1764 - † May 23, 1831 in Uetersen ) was a benefactress , conventual and prioress of the Uetersen monastery .

Life

She came from the Eastern European noble family Gollowin . Amalie Benedicte Dorothea von Gollowin was the prioress of the Uetersen Monastery from 1814 to 1831. She was the successor of her aunt Dorothea Catharina von Ahlefeldt from the house of Lehmkuhlen (1750-1814) and on August 5, 1814 was elected head of the monastery.

She was a leader of the 19th century in the Uetersen monastery, grew up with her aunt, the prioress Dorothea Catharina von Ahlefeldt and confirmed in Uetersen, it was her greatest wish to be able to spend her whole life in the monastery there. But her parents had forgotten to enroll her in a monastery. After Friedrich VI. ascended the throne in 1808 and made use of his right to give four ladies of the foreign nobility a place in the monastery, Amalie Dorothea Benedicte von Gollowin was also enrolled in the monastery. After only six years as a conventual, she was elected prioress of the monastery.

The south house (right) with the arcades of the walled up cloister

The unloved altarpiece donated by Wilcken Wigbers (1635–1691)

As a conventual, she campaigned for the monastery. Her aunt Dorothea Catharina von Ahlefeldt wanted to have the dilapidated west wing of the enclosure demolished. In order to be able to finance the demolition, she looked for a buyer for the reusable building materials after the demolition through notices and newspaper advertisements. As one of the interested parties, Konventualin Gollowin was awarded the contract. A year later, elected as prioress, the building was demolished and she had the south house, which had been affected by the demolition, walled up with the old stones of the west wing. With the rest of the stones, the masonry of the "Jungfernfriedhof" was designed uniformly on their behalf. It has been preserved in this form to this day and is a listed building.

In October of 1817 was a "dreitägen Jubelfest" the 300-year past thesis stop to Wittenberg thought. Here she excelled as a founder. The Uetersen monastery preacher Diederich Leberecht Hoepfner (1778-1830) corrects in his church chronicle, which he began in 1817: “ The Reverend Frau Priörin ... who had already given a new hand-embroidered blanket for the local pulpit and altar table ... took hold Already at the beginning of the year the decision to glorify the celebration of the jubilee with a new altarpiece ... Our otherwise beautiful church was actually quite disfigured by a highly unworthy, tasteless altarpiece. It represented the institute of Holy Communion, and the figures were raised in wood. It has long been the wish to see this replaced by a better one. The order for this was given to a young painter Bendixen in Hamburg. "

Amalie Benedicte Dorothea von Gollowin was an extraordinary personality, a woman with a big heart and way ahead of her time. The then 33-year-old conventual Anna Sabina von Buchwaldt from the Gudumlund house (1781–1860) and the nine years younger pharmacist's assistant and later doctor August Bösch (1790–1833) had started a love affair when von Gollowin took office. Anna Sabina von Buchwaldt already had a child under her heart. Prioress von Gollowin did everything to ensure that this case did not become known, because the discovery would have cost Anna Sabina her place in the monastery and pushing the young happiness into misery. Anna Sabina stayed in the monastery until four weeks before she was born. The daughter Camilla Luitgarde was born with relatives in Helmstorf on April 6, 1815, was baptized in Altona and also given care there. Anna Sabina von Buchwaldt came back to Uetersen and continued to live in the monastery. Her secret fiancé took his exam in Kiel and on December 3, 1816 the two celebrated their wedding in silence with a house wedding in the monastery. The couple stayed in the bride's house in the monastery courtyard and August Bösch ran his extremely successful practice from here. Camilla Luitgarde was later brought to live with her parents in Uetersen. After the later announcement of the wedding of Konventualin Anna Sabina with the son of a Uetersen worker, it did not cause a sensation, which was not a matter of course at the time.

As a benefactor, she let poor people who could not afford a doctor be treated by the doctor August Bösch at their own expense. Those who cannot go to the doctor by themselves were transported by servants in a litter . Even today, von Gollowin is considered a pioneer of ambulance transport in Schleswig-Holstein.

Amalie Dorothea Benedicte von Gollowin died on May 23, 1831 and was venerated by the Uetersen population as a great benefactress and deeply mourned in the entire village after her death. Her death interrupted the wedding celebrations of Wilhelm Mannhard and Charlotte Hoepfner, the daughter of local pastor Diederich Leberecht Hoepfner. In her will she made the monastery the general heir of her property. The remaining legacy, listed on a total of 125 closely described pages in the chancellery format, the movables and movables they left behind were offered in public auction on September 19, 1831 for the benefit of the monastery.

literature

• Diederich Leberecht Hoepfner: Church chronicle of the Uetersen monastery. 1717.
• Peter von Kobbe : History and description of the country of the duchies of Bremen and Verden. First part. Vanbenhoeck and Ruprecht, Göttingen 1824,
• Wilhelm Ehlers: History and folklore of the Pinneberg district. Groth, Elmshorn 1922.
• Hans Ferdinand Bubbe : Attempt of a chronicle of the city and the monastery Uetersen. Volume 1, Chapter I. Heydorns, Uetersen 1932.
• Wolfgang Teuchert , Arnold Lühning: Art monuments of the state Schleswig-Holstein, district Pinneberg. German art publisher, 1961.
• Erwin Freytag: List of the provosts and priories at the Cistercian nunnery and later Adlid monastery at Uetersen. Yearbook for the Pinneberg district . Beig, Pinneberg 1970.
• Lothar Mosler : Treasures of the Uetersener monastery church. Yearbook for the Pinneberg district. Beig, Pinneberg 1973.
• Lothar Mosler: Uetersen focus. History and Stories 1234–1984. Heydorns, 1985.
• Elsa Plath-Langheinrich: When Goethe wrote to Uetersen: The life of the Conventual Augusta Louise Countess zu Stolberg-Stolberg. Wachholtz, 1989.
• Elsa Plath-Langheinrich: The monastery at the Uetersten End. Heydorns, 2008.
• Elsa Plath-Langheinrich: Uetersen Monastery in Holstein. Wachholtz, 2009.