Carl Gotthilf Tilebein

Carl Gotthilf Tilebein (born April 15, 1760 in Stettin , † July 7, 1820 in Züllchow ) was a German businessman who, together with his wife Sophie Auguste Tilebein, organized cultural life in Stettin and founded an artistic salon in Stettin.

Education and youth

Stettin around 1640 (Merian)

Carl Gotthilf Tilebein was the fourth son of the Szczecin merchant, wine merchant and shipowner Gotthilf Friedrich Tilebein (1728–1787) and his wife Maria Sophie Watt (1727–1769).

At Easter 1775 he started an apprenticeship in his father's office. After disagreements with his father, because he was not very obedient and full of wanderlust, he went to Bordeaux via Swinoujscie to learn about viticulture and winemaking . He stayed there for seven years and continued his business apprenticeship with the Prussian Vice-Consul Jacob Heinrich Wüstenberg, the father of the later French MP Jacques-Henri Wustenberg . Jakob Wüstenberg had emigrated from Stettin to Bordeaux in 1768 and founded a wine wholesaler in 1779 under the name "JH Wustenberg & Teyssonière". In addition to having a firm command of the French language, Carl Gotthilf Tilebein acquired practical knowledge and experience in the wine trade. He received his further commercial training from the merchant Jormalagnèz in Bayonne , where he stayed for two years. In Barcelona he was then employed for some time in the trading business of his uncle Christian Andreas Tilebein. a. worked as a commission agent for the Banco de San Carlos , which he co-founded .

After Carl Gotthilf Tilebein had won his father's approval and had made up with him again, he made the necessary funds available for an educational trip through the most important countries in Europe.

In the spring of 1784 Carl Gotthilf Tilebein arrived in Stettin and worked in his father's trading business. When he died on February 26, 1787, the estate fell to his widow and her four children, but part of it remained in the trading business that was run by Carl Gotthilf Tilebein and his brother-in-law, the merchant Johann Tobias Piefke, who had their older sister Henriette Caroline Tilebein (1761–1801) married on November 14, 1779, was continued under the company "Tilebein und Comp." When Piefke died in 1792, Carl Gotthilf Tilebein continued to run the trading business in the main building on Königsstrasse, where the larger wine cellars were located, with great success. In his parent house he lived in a spacious apartment on the Berlin style with a French touch and gathered many guests around him. He was considered a friendly and open person who also liked to go hunting. He belonged to a circle of close friends of Princess Elisabeth of Braunschweig . Carl Gotthilf Tilebein was born in 1806 by the Prussian King Friedrich Wilhelm III. awarded the honorary title of "Secret Commerce Councilor" .

With the collapse of Prussia in 1806 and the conquest of Stettin by the French troops, as well as the subsequent French era , the Stettin trade was under heavy strain. Due to the continental blockade and contributions , trade in Szczecin largely came to a standstill. That is why Carl Gotthilf Tilebein retired in the summer of 1808 as a private individual to his wife's country estate in Züllchow near Stettin.

Marriage to Sophie Auguste Buyrette

The Tilebeins at the Herzogseiche (painting by Friedrich Georg Weitsch )

In 1797 Carl Gotthilf Tilebein married the widow Sophie Auguste Buyrette (* December 20, 1771 in Göttingen ; † August 21, 1854 in Züllchow near Stettin), and in 1790, at the age of 19 in Stettin, the 55-year-old businessman Jean Rodolphe Buyrette had married, who had become wealthy through the trade in wood and wine, shipbuilding and his own shipping company. Her hospitality and social skills were already valued at this time. After six years of marriage, Jean Rodolphe Buyrette died on October 1, 1796. Sophie Auguste had French and English roots. She was the daughter of the English lecturer in English at the University of Göttingen, Philipp Heinrich Pepin, and his wife Henriette Luise Perard, the daughter of a royal court preacher of the French Reformed community in Stettin, who died in childbed. Sophie Auguste was taught the basics of geography, botany, religion, literature and several languages ​​in her youth, she played the harpsichord and cultivated the singing. She had lived with her father in Berlin and then in Paris.

Carl Gotthilf Tilebein had already met Sophie Auguste when she was still married to Mr. Buyrette. He helped the widow with complicated financial matters. This resulted in a love affair. The marriage took place in the Church of St. Gertrud in Stettin on July 31, 1797. After a modest wedding (since less than a year had passed since the death of their first husband), the young couple went on a long, 11-month honeymoon through many countries in Europe, during which they spent six months in Paris, initially in a 5-room rented room -Apartment in the Hotel du Nord and then in a 5-room apartment near the theaters that were often visited. There she met her father again, who was a professor in Paris. While her husband was able to develop his commercial interests, the young woman devoted herself to her intellectual and artistic training. In addition to taking guitar and singing lessons, she learned Italian and studied literature and playing the piano. The couple made the acquaintance of many interesting French personalities. But they also met many former friends they knew from Szczecin.

During the 11-month honeymoon, his brother-in-law Piefke managed the trading business alone. He died shortly after the Tilebein couple returned, so that Carl Gotthilf Tilebein continued to run the business on his own until the end of the trading business in 1808.

Castle in Züllchow

During her first marriage to Jean Rodolphe Buyrette, he had already bought a rural Büdner house with a garden on an Oder hill in Züllchow for his wife in 1795. This property was later significantly enlarged. The Tilebein couple intended to sell their town house and to have a country house built on this property, and they commissioned the architect Karl Friedrich Schinkel with a design. The designs that Schinkel drew at the time and that have long been searched for in Stettin, reappeared not long ago in Münster / Westphalia. They represent a representative building, two storeys high and seven window axes wide, with an approach ramp and pillar porch in front of the front center. However, the execution was not carried out because the French marched into Stettin in October 1806. Ms. Tilebein didn't like the design either. With reference to her friends Friedrich Georg Weitsch and Friedrich Wilhelm von Schadow, she commented on the design with the comment that Schinkel placed value on splendor and great taste, but not on practicality and bourgeois comfort. He always builds for princes and lords, but not for the real owner. When the couple resumed the house building project in 1809, Ms. Tilebein drew a crack herself and had it carried out by a carpenter from Szczecin. A castle-like country house was created with a theater, music hall and a valuable library.

Salon in Züllchow

Greetings to Züllchow, composed by Carl Loewe

The Tilebein couple formed the cultural center of social life in Szczecin. Between 1790 and 1806 as well as 1820 and 1833, Rahel Levin and, after her marriage, Rahel Vernhagen , ran a literary salon in Berlin ( Salon der Rahel Varnhagen ), in which poets, naturalists, politicians, social giants and aristocrats interacted on the same level. During a seven-week stay in Berlin in 1805, during which the Tilebein couple stayed in the renowned “Stadt Paris” hotel, the Tilebein couple met Rahel Levin through their friend, Swedish chargé d'affaires Carl Gustav von Brinkmann , in whose salon Ms. Tilebein was a guest several times appeared.

This reinforced the idea of ​​founding such a salon in Stettin as well. The Tilebein couple invited local artist personalities such as the composer Carl Loewe and the poet Ludwig Giesebrecht as well as foreign artists such as the Berlin actor August Wilhelm Iffland . Visitors were also the President of the Province of Pomerania Johann August Sack , Field Marshal Friedrich von Wrangel , General Doctor August Ferdinand Wasserfuhr , Goethe's grandsons Walther and Wolfgang , their mother Ottilie nee. von Pogwisch , the Princess Elisabeth of Braunschweig and the Prince Louis Ferdinand of Prussia . Carl Loewe, who was encouraged by Mrs. Tilebein and had been a frequent guest in Züllchow, set several poems by Heinrich Wilhelm von Gerstenberg a . a. a "greeting to Züllchow", which Loewe dedicated to the "privy councilor" Tilebein.

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  Louis Ferdinand of Prussia (1772-1806)

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  Carl Loewe

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  Rachel Levin

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  Elisabeth Christine Ulrike from Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel

Death, Tilebeinstiftung

Carl Gotthilf Tilebein died on July 7, 1820 after a brief illness. His wife had him buried in a crypt in their own park. She later had a mausoleum built based on her design.

After the death of her husband, she continued her previous artistic and social activities. She continued to be a patron of many artists in Szczecin, and his support was of great importance. Mrs. Tilebein died on August 21, 1854 in Züllchow and was buried in the mausoleum next to her husband.

The Tilebeins had no children. In her will, Ms. Tilebein determined that the property in Züllchow should be used to set up the Tilebein Foundation. Originally, the purpose of the foundation, as the sponsor of an old people's home in the buildings in Züllchow, was to provide elderly needy women from Pomerania, mainly from Stettin, with a carefree retirement. The foundation survived the difficult years, especially after the Second World War, when the German economy collapsed, but thanks to sensible decisions it survived the crisis.

On the night of August 29-30, 1944, the war events destroyed the palace and the side buildings without killing people. The mausoleum and the gardener's house were not destroyed and were only demolished later. At the time of the bombing, there were no more valuables in the palace. They had been outsourced. Unfortunately, it is not known what happened to them after the war. The foundation with its new seat in Kiel was entered in the list of foundations under the name “Tilebein Foundation Stettin-Züllchow”. As long as a suitable home is not available, donations of money to needy and economically needy women who come from or live in Pomerania, preferably from Szczecin, are now to be granted from the net income of the foundation's assets at Christmas if possible.

literature

• Otto Altenburg : The Tilebeins and their circle. Szczecin bourgeois culture in the 18th and 19th centuries, primarily in the time of Goethe. Leon Saunier's bookstore, Stettin 1937 ( digitized version ).

Web links

• Sophie Auguste Tilebein. In: Encyklopedia Szczecin (Stettin). May 21, 2014, accessed June 30, 2014 (Polish). 
• Szczecin w biografii: Piękna Pani Tilebein. Francuska w Szczecinie. In: TransOdra online. August 28, 2012, accessed June 30, 2014 (Polish). 

Individual evidence

1. ^ Teresa Tortella: A Guide to Sources of Information on Foreign Investment in Spain 1780-1914. Amsterdam 2000, p. 230 [1]
2. ^ Martin Wehrmann : History of the city of Stettin. Léon Saunier, Stettin 1911, p. 412f.
3. ↑ Hans Vogel: KF Schinkel's marriage to Susanne Berger from Stettin. In: Baltic Studies . New series, Vol. 55, 1996. Page 55 ( digitized version ).
4. ↑ Pictures of Züllchow Castle [2]
5. ^ Hermann Manzke: Medical Councilor Dr. August Steffen (1825–1910): Nestor and Spiritus rector of paediatrics in Germany and Central Europe. Kiel 2005, p. 23 f ( Google Books ).
6. ^ Max Runze (Ed.): Carl Loewes Werke: Liederkreise. Vol. XVII, Leipzig 1817, pages 99-115 ( Google Books ).
7. ↑ Jan Musekamp , Between Stettin and Szczecin: Metamorphoses of a City from 1945 to 2005, Wiesbaden 2010, p. 287 [3]
8. ↑ Directory of Foundations of the State of Schleswig-Holstein, as of January 31, 2013, No. 656, page 544, digitally accessed on June 22, 2015 Archive link ( Memento of the original from June 22, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.