Anna Katharina von Offen

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Portrait of Anna Katharina von Harling, née von Offen. Chief Chamberlain to Electress Sophie von Hannover and wife of the Privy Councilor and Chief Stable Master Christian Friedrich von Harling

Anna Catharina von Offen (also: Anna Katharina von Uffeln and Anna Katharina von Offeln ; as well as Anna Katherine Offeln *  1624 in Entrup (Lemgo) ; † March 1, 1702 in Hanover ) was a German lady-in-waiting and prince and princess governess as well as chief stewardess the Electress of Hanover , Sophie von der Pfalz .

Life

origin

Coat of arms of Catharina von Offen

Anna Katharina von Offen was a descendant of the noble family von Offen from the county of Lippe . Contrary to occasional statements, she did not belong to the sex of the Lords of Uffeln . Her parents were the noblemen Jobst Bernhard von Offen († 1654) and Hedwig Werpup († 1656). Her sister Anna Maria von Offen was chief stewardess in Mecklenburg , her brother Jobst Moritz von Offen (1635–1692) was a lieutenant general in the services of Kurdish Brunswick and heir to Entrup .

Career

Double tombstone (today epitaph ) with her husband Christian Friedrich von Harling on the southern outer wall of the church tower of the Neustädter Hof- und Stadtkirche St. Johannis in the Calenberger Neustadt of Hanover

Anna Katharina von Offen was even before she married Christian Friedrich von Harling (1631–1724), the Privy Councilor and Chief Stable Master at the electoral court in Hanover, educator of the young Princess Liselotte of the Palatinate , who later became Duchess of Orléans, with whom she lived all her life close correspondence remained.

From 1684 Anna Katharina lived in the so-called “Harlingsche Haus” given to her by Ernst August , Duke of Braunschweig-Lüneburg , at Calenberger Strasse 29/30 “[...] on the Neustadt ” near Hanover.

She was then married to the Chief Chamberlain of the Electress of Hanover . The daughter of the Electress, Sophie Charlotte von Hannover , who later became the first Prussian queen, was brought up by Anna Katharina von Harling from 1678 onwards. The son of Sophie Charlottes, later King Friedrich Wilhelm I of Prussia , was entrusted to Anna Katharina von Harlings in 1692 at the age of four, together with the later British King George II , but the two little princes did not get along well. The Duchess of Orléans, Liselotte von der Pfalz, would have loved to entrust her children to Anna Katharina von Harling's upbringing.

Just like her husband and other high-ranking court officials, such as Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz , von Offen enjoyed the privilege of being buried in the Neustädter Hof- und Stadtkirche St. Johannis . The double tombstone with that of her husband can be found today - as an epitaph , so to speak - on the southern outer wall of the church tower.

literature

  • Liselotte von der Pfalz in her Harling letters. All letters from Elisabeth Charlotte, Duchesse d'Orléans, to the Chief Chamberlain Anna Katharina von Harling, b. von Offeln, and her husband Christian Friedrich von Harling, privy councilor and head stable master, in Hanover; supplemented by a complete inventory of their previously known letters to various recipients (= publications of the Palatinate Society for the Promotion of Science in Speyer , vol. 102), edited, commented and introduced by Hannelore Helfer. With a glossary by Malte-Ludolf Babin, 2 volumes, Hanover: Verlag Hahnsche Buchhandlung, 2007, ISBN [978-3-7752-6126-5] and ISBN 3-7752-6126-5
  • Eduard Bodemann (Ed.): Elisabeth Charlotte von Orléans. Letters to her former court master AK v. Harling, b. v. Uffels, and their consorts, go. Rath Fr. Harling zu Hannover (in Gothic script ), reprint of the Hannover edition; Leipzig; Hahnsche Hofbuchhandlung from 1895, Hildesheim; Zurich; New York: Olms, 2004, ISBN 3-487-12055-0
  • Sigrun Pas (ed.), Hannelore Helfer: Elisabeth Charlotte von Orléans and her relationship with Anna Katharina and Christian Friedrich Freiherr von Harling . In: Liselotte von der Pfalz: Madame at the court of the Sun King , accompanying document to the exhibition of the city of Heidelberg for the 800th anniversary from September 21, 1996 to January 26, 1997 in Heidelberg Castle, Heidelberg, 1996
  • Hannelore Helfer: “One must always do what is reasonable - like it or not - and let God rule in the rest.” Liselotte von der Pfalz and her letters . In: Huguenots , Ed .: Deutsche Huguenot Society, Bad Karlshafen, 2009, ISSN 0012-0294
  • Mareike Böth: Narrative ways of the self. Body practices in Liselotte's letters from the Palatinate (1652–1722) (= self-testimony of the modern age , vol. 24), at the same time dissertation 2012 at the University of Kassel , Cologne; Weimar; Vienna: Böhlau, 2015, ISBN 978-3-412-22459-2 and ISBN 3-412-22459-6 , passim ; mostly online via Google books

Web links

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Annette v. Boetticher : Gravestones, epithaphs and memorial plaques of the Evangelical Lutheran. Neustädter Hof- und Stadtkirche St. Johannis in Hanover , brochure DIN A5 (20 pages, some with illustrations), publisher. from the church council of the ev.-luth. Neustädter Hof- und Stadtkirche St. Johannis, Hanover: 2002, p. 6, especially p. 14
  2. ↑ Compare the information under the GND number of the German National Library
  3. ↑ a b Harling, Anna Katharina von in the database of Niedersächsische Personen (new entry required) of the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Library - Lower Saxony State Library , edited on September 12, 2008, last accessed on June 30, 2016
  4. ^ Jamie Allen's Family Tree & Ancient Genealogical Allegations
  5. ^ Dataset of the German National Library : Harling, Anna Katharina von
  6. ↑ Anke Hufschmidt: Noble women in the Weser area between 1570 and 1700 , publications of the Historical Commission for Westphalia 22 15, 2001, p. 75 , ISBN 978-3-402-06798-7
  7. ^ History of Hanover in the age of the ninth cure and the English succession 1674-1714, p. 407, Hofleben in Ostfriesland, letters to her former court master AK von Harling, née von Uffeln
  8. ↑ Hannelore Helfer (ed.), Liselotte von der Pfalz in her Harling letters ( memento from October 6, 2014 in the Internet Archive ): All letters from Elisabeth Charlotte, duchesse d'Orléans, to the chief stewardess Anna Katharina von Harling, b. von Offeln and her husband Christian Friedrich von Harling, privy councilor and head stable master, zu Hannover , Hannover 2007, 2 volumes, ISBN 3-7752-6126-5
  9. ↑ Eduard Bodemann (ed.), Elisabeth Charlotte von Orléans: Letters to her former court master Anna Katharina von Harling, née von Uffeln, and her husband, Privy Councilor Friedrich Christian von Harling zu Hanover , reprint of the edition from Hanover / Leipzig by Hahn from 1895, Hildesheim / Zurich / New York: Olms, 2004, ISBN 3-487-12055-0
  10. ↑ Gertrude Aretz , Famous Women in World History , Hallwag-Verlag 1940, First Chapter: Liselotte von der Pfalz, Duchess of Orléans
  11. ^ Association for the History of Berlin e. V., founded 1865, Sophie Charlotte, Queen in Prussia (accessed September 30, 2014)
  12. ^ Article "Sophie Charlotte" by Otto Krauske in: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie, edited by the Historical Commission at the Bavarian Academy of Sciences, Volume 34 (1892), pp. 676-684, digital full-text edition in Wikisource, ( version from 30 September 2014, 04:55 a.m. UTC )
personal data
SURNAME Openly, Anna Katharina von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Offen, Anna Catharina von; Offeln, Anna Katharina von; Offeln, Anna Katharine; Harling, Anna Katharina von; Uffeln, Anna Katharina von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Lady-in-waiting and chief stewardess of the Electress of Hanover, prince and princess educator
DATE OF BIRTH 1624
PLACE OF BIRTH Entrup (Lemgo)
DATE OF DEATH March 1, 1702
Place of death Hanover