Anne Marie Baral

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Memorial plaque of the FrauenOrte project in the state of Brandenburg for Anne Marie Baral in front of the Potsdam Justice Center

Anne Marie Baral , née Laval (born April 22, 1728 in Berlin ; † June 20, 1805 in Potsdam ), was a Prussian silk cultivator , haspler and trainer.

Life

Anne Marie Laval was born in Berlin in 1728 as the daughter of French religious refugees . Her father was the Metz- born master baker Jean Laval and her mother Marguerite Devaise came from Mannheim . At the age of 19, Anne Marie Laval moved to Potsdam, where she married the pouch-cloth maker Jean Pierre Baral from Kassel , who was fourteen years her senior . They had seven children, five of whom died between the ages of four and eighteen months. Only the two girls Sophie Dorothée and Susanne reached adulthood. Anne Marie and Jean Pierre Baral belonged to the third generation of French religious refugees who settled in Brandenburg-Prussia under the privileges of the Edict of Potsdam issued in 1685 .

The couple initially made a living from odd jobs. Anne Marie Baral supported her husband's work as a textile craftsman and as a painter in the building trade, and later she was self-employed in silk making. So she first raised silkworms on the mulberry plantation of the Potsdam orphanage and reeled their cocoons into raw silk . In the course of this activity she developed into one of the most sought-after trainers in silk construction, far beyond the city limits. In addition to training apprentices, she also instructed citizens' women in reeling. In 1789, a few years after the death of her husband, the royal silk building commission offered her a lifetime position at the Jägerhof.

When Jägerhof it was by the Great Elector scale pheasant in the north of Potsdam. In the middle of the 18th century, a silk building model institute was built here. Men and women from the Kur-, Alt- and Neumark should be trained in silk construction. The goal set out under Frederick II of making Brandenburg independent of foreign silk imports could only be achieved to a small extent. After initial success, Anne Marie Baral also had to cope with setbacks in her professional activity. In 1793 she gave up silk making for reasons of age, but was allowed to live on the Jägerhof until her death in 1805. In 1794 her daughter Susanne, who was supposed to take over the silk making on the Jägerhof together with her husband, died in childbed .

Commemoration

The Potsdam women's village Anne Marie Baral is located in front of the Potsdam Justice Center at Jägerallee 10-12. This is located in a building erected between 1826 and 1828 as a Prussian NCO school on the site of the Seidenbau-Musteranstalt.

An area of ​​the WeiberWirtschaft that arithmetically no longer has any bank debts was named after Baral.

literature

  • Silke Kamp: Anne Marie Baral . In: Jeanette Toussaint: Between tradition and obstinacy. Life paths of Potsdam women from the 18th to the 20th century . Edited by Autonomous Women's Center Potsdam eV Potsdam 2009, pp. 17–28.
  • Silke Kamp: The belated colony - Huguenots in Potsdam 1685–1809 . In: Mitteilungen der Studiengemeinschaft Sanssouci eV No. 2/2007, pp. 35–45.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Short biography of Silke Kamp: Anne Marie Baral. In: fembio.org. Retrieved January 19, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Short Biography Annemarie Barals on the website of the woman places Brandenburg project
  3. ^ Anne-Marie Baral: Weiberwirtschaft. Retrieved December 29, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Baral, Anne Marie
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Laval, Anne Marie
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Prussian silk cultivator and haspler
DATE OF BIRTH April 22, 1728
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH June 20, 1805
Place of death Potsdam