Carl Peter Johann from Le Fort

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Baron Le Fort

Carl Peter Johann von Le Fort , also Carl Johann Peter von Le Fort (* May 24, 1794 in Möllenhagen ; † June 27, 1862 ibid) was a German merchant and district administrator of Mecklenburg-Schwerin . He was temporarily in French service and was the owner of the goods Gottin and Tellow near Teterow and Wendhof and Poppentin near Göhren-Lebbin . He gained historical importance as the monastery captain in Dobbertin.

origin

Carl Peter Johann von Le Fort was the older son of the Mecklenburg landowner Ludwig (August) von Le Fort (1760-1831) and his wife Marie, b. Split tanner († 1811).

Life

Le Fort studied from 1811 at the Georg-August University in Göttingen . In 1811 he became a member of the Mecklenburg-Corps Vandalia Göttingen. After graduating, he first went to London and Amsterdam and became a merchant. In London he made the acquaintance of the successful Rostock businessman and captain Caspar Christoph Michael Brinckman. His son John Brinckman worked as a Low German poet and teacher from 1844 to 1846 at the monastery captain Le Fort as private tutor in Dobbertin. In Amsterdam, Le Fort met his future wife Henriette (Marie) Splitgerber, the daughter of the landowner David Splitgerber from Bronstee near Harlem and Johanna Gisberta, née Harderwyk. The marriage on May 31, 1836 took place in Amsterdam, first civilly by the Schöppen Deutz, then religiously in the Walloon Church in Amsterdam by the preacher Mournier. In the summer of 1836, Le Fort took over his father's small estate in Wendhof . From 1842 he acquired from the Vice-Marshal country Adolph (Frederick Charles) of Oertzen (1797-1867) as liquidator of the estate of his father Carl von Pentz (1776-1827) nor the Good with the Patronatskirche in Boek on the southeastern shore of the Müritz received and it from the Grand Duke Friedrich Franz II of Mecklenburg-Schwerin as a fief.

Monastery captain in Dobbertin

Monastery governor's house in Dobbertin

As a member of the Mecklenburg State Parliament, Le Fort was elected to the important office of Dobbertiner monastery captain on December 2, 1835 in Sternberg . The written confirmation by Grand Duke Friedrich Franz I of Mecklenburg-Schwerin took place on December 5, 1835. The previous monastery captain Victor (Wilhelm August Friedrich Eugen) von Oertzen auf Leppin died on August 12, 1835 at the age of 40 in Dobbertin. After receiving the certificate of appointment, Le Fort and his wife moved into the office building in the Dobbertin monastery one month after the wedding with a ceremonial introduction on June 24, 1836 . At that time the district administrator Hans Dietrich Wilhelm von Blücher auf Sukow and Major Heinrich Franz von Barner auf Klein Görnow were working as provisional in the monastery office. According to the minutes of the official actuary Ludwig Lierow of June 24, 1836, the presentation of the monastery captain Carl Peter Baron von Le Fort, heir to Wendhof, took place in front of the convent with Frau Domina in the choir hall. Due to the illness of Domina Elisabeth Friedrike von Rohr , the sub-priority Christina Louise Elisabeth von Blücher presented all 32 conventual women. The introduction of the monastery captain to the monastery officials and their swearing-in, including the village mayors, pastors, foresters and land riders as monastery policemen, then took place in the courtroom.

The office of the monastery captain was seen as follows: The whole concern of the administration rests on the shoulders of the monastery captain, who, living with his family in the same place, is the lawyer for the monastery ladies. They address every request to him for structural changes or whatever it may be, and the family of the monastery captain, if they understand their position correctly, forms the center of monastic life. The Landtag is happy to elect the monastery captain from older families in the country, so that he shows his old ladies the right piety, and from advanced years, so that his wife is no longer bound by small children, but is free to have amiable intercourse with the ladies dedicate. Carl Peter von Le Fort did not come from one of the oldest families in the country, nor was he of the advanced age at just 40 .

But Le Fort did an excellent job as a merchant in the administration of the monastery office, so that he was elected monastery captain three times for six years until 1854 in the state parliaments. Immediately after he took office there was brisk construction activity in the monastery. The monastery church's twin towers were completed in 1837. Then he got money for the outer church renovation. Le Fort also led the building conferences with his two temporary agents from Blücher on Sukow and now Johann Jakob von Leers on Schönfeld , the kitchen master Christoph Friedrich Behrens, the official actuary Ludwig Lierow and the young Schwerin court architect Georg Adolph Demmler , who provided the designs and the for the restoration care responsible monument conservators, the secret archivist Georg Christian Friedrich Lisch from Schwerin until its completion in 1851. The new kitchen master's house was completed in 1845. The toddler school set up in the monastery village, the village kindergarten, was enlarged in 1846 and looked after by the nuns. In the larger monastery villages, the renovation of the school buildings began after 1846, and in 1853 Le Fort in Dobbertin had an educational institution set up to train young monastery-owned country school teachers. Monastery preacher Christian Heinrich Mahn and the first teacher Ahrend ran the institute, the kitchen master Behrend taught the young teachers how to play the organ on the small school organ specially built by the organ builder Ernst Sauer .

One of Le Fort's merits in 1838 was the handing over of the original documents of the Dobbertin Monastery to the Secret Archives Councilor Lisch in Schwerin for publication in the Mecklenburg document books and their safe storage in the Schwerin State Main Archives. Le Fort also worked actively in the Association for Mecklenburg History and Archeology .

From 1841 onwards, the Ludwigsluster palace gardener Carl Schweer laid out the monastery park on the Großer Werder, with a pavilion and lawn tennis court up to the monastery mill. For this purpose, Le Fort had the chamber engineer and surveyor of the monastery office, Heinrich Christoph Stüdemann from Ruest , draw up a colored plan of the Dobbertin monastery with surroundings with Der kleine Werder and Der große Werder in 1841 .

During the revolution of 1848 an extraordinary state parliament was held in Schwerin in May 1848, in which Le Fort also took part. Negotiations on a new state constitution lasted three weeks. The changes were reversed as early as 1850. When Grand Duke Friedrich Franz II of Mecklenburg-Schwerin from Malchow Monastery came to visit Dobbertin Monastery on August 13, 1853 , Le fort had simply left for Holland with his family. The Grand Duke guided the monastery through the 74-year-old Mrs. Domina Hedwig von Quitzow .

All four children of the married couple Carl Peter Johann von Le Fort and Henriette (Marie), née Splitgerber, were born in Dobbertin and were baptized in the monastery church. After the birth of the first son David (Ludwig Johann Peter Heinrich) on February 25, 1838, the in-laws David and Johanna Splitgerber came from Amsterdam for the christening by the monastery pastor Christian Heinrich Mahn on February 31, 1838. The monastery provisional Hans Dietrich von Blücher and chamberlain August Peter David von Le Fort auf Poppentin were present as godparents. Ludwig (Friedrich Peter) was born on March 22, 1840. When he was baptized on May 9, 1840, only David Splitgerber from Amsterdam was present as godfather, followed by Elisabeth Charlotte von Storch auf Diestelow , a née Countess von Bassewitz . Like their sister Aletta (Wynanda Emma Pauline), who was born on May 12, 1843, both remained unmarried. The third son Franz (Jacob Heinrich Carl Peter), born on October 9, 1841, married Henrietta von Kardorf on May 1, 1872, had no descendants and died on December 31, 1896 as major and chamberlain of the Schwerin Grand Duke in Ludwigslust .

The sons David and Ludwig received their first school lessons from 1844 by the private tutor and Low German writer John Brinckman in the administrative building of the Dobbertin monastery, who also lived there. From a letter from John Brinckman dated May 9, 1845 to his fiancée Elise Burmeister in Goldberg, we learn that Carl Peter von Le Fort was musical and also played the guitar. He wrote: Another assignment, my best Elias! Just as I was sending my first letter today in Freudenfels' wagon, the monastery captain comes and asks me to write to Goldberg and look for three or four e-strings for his guitar, since there will only be a musician in Goldberg ( if Keffel doesn't have them), who keeps such e-strings (the thinnest are called that, right?) in stock ... any expenses will be promptly reimbursed. Always your John.

Good Boek

Manor house in Boek
Coat of arms of the Le Fort family on the manor house in Boek

During his tenure as head of the monastery in Dobbertin, Carl Peter von Le Fort also managed the small so-called forest estate in Boek from 1842. There were 2,622.7 hectares, of which about 547 hectares were forest in the Boeker Forest and 467 hectares in the Müritz.

The St. John's Church , which was destroyed in the village fire in 1837 , had Le Fort rebuilt in the neo-Gothic style in 1847 by the Schwerin master builder Carl Anton Hermes. The church consecration in Boek took place on June 20, 1847 in the presence of the patron and donor Carl Peter von Le Fort. After 1842, the construction of the new mansion began as an elongated two-storey plastered building with a simplified classical structure and a central projection. The family coat of arms is located in the upper gable triangle. The adjoining barns, cattle sheds and the bakery were completed by 1849 and in the summer of 1853 further new buildings, even a palm house, were added.

As a church patron in Boek, he donated a bell in 1847 and an organ in 1853, today the oldest surviving work by the organ builder Wilhelm Sauer .

In 1860 Le Fort was elected one of the eight district councilors of the state parliament.

The family grave site with the tombs of the district administrator and monastery captain Carl Peter Johann Baron of Le Fort auf Böck, born. May 27, 1794, d. June 27, 1862, his wife Baroness Henriette Marie von Le Fort, née Splitgerber, b. May 16, 1803, d. April 17, 1873 and the sons David Johann Peter Reichsfreiherr von Le Fort, b. February 25, 1838, died March 24, 1914 and Ludwig Friedrich Peter Reichsfreiherr von Le Fort, b. March 22, 1840, d. August 14, 1907, are still present in the cemetery in Boek.

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Printed sources

Unprinted sources

Burial place in Boek
  • State Main Archive Schwerin (LHAS)
    • LHAS 2.21-2 feudal chamber . Loan files II.
    • LHAS 3.2-3 / 1 Provincial Monastery / Monastery Office Dobbertin.
    • LHAS 3.2-4 Knightly fire insurance.
    • LHAS 5.11-2 Landtag negotiations , Landtag assemblies , Landtag minutes and Landtag committee.
    • LHAS 5.12-3 / 2 Monasteries and orders of knights, Generalia, Dobbertin.
    • LHAS 5.12-4 / 2 Mecklenburg Ministry of Agriculture, Domains and Forests. Dobbertin monastery office.
    • LHAS 5.12-8 / 1 Military Department .
    • LHAS 10.9-L / 6 Estate Lisch, Friedrich (1801–1883)
      • No. 14 Notes, transcripts of sources on Mecklenburg history, 1854–1862.
      • No. 29 Notes on Wendish place names and letters on them from Baron Le Fort, 1842–1854.
      • No. 193 Restoration of the church in Dobbertin with expert opinions, minutes, notes, cost statements, sketches and correspondence with the Dobbertiner monastery captains of Baron Le Fort and von Maltzan, court painter Gaston Lenthe from Schwerin, sculptor Willgohs from Berlin and master builder Thormann from Wismar, 1854– 1858.
      • No. 640 letters from Baron Le Fort from Dobbertin about the publication of documents from Dobbertin Monastery, 1838–1851.
  • State Church Archive Schwerin. (LKAS)
    • LKAS, OKR Schwerin, Parish Archives Laerz with Boek. No. 6 Historical reports to the patron Baron von Le Fort about the new building of the church in 1765 and 1837. No. 37 Entry in the land register for Baron von Le Fort on the church.

literature

  • Horst Alsleben : The Jungfrauenkloster as a Protestant women's monastery - a monastery office in Mecklenburg-Schwerin. Meritorious personalities of the monastery office. In: Dobbertin Monastery. History - building - living. Contributions to art history and monument preservation in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. Volume 2, Schwerin 2012 ISBN 978-3-935770-35-4 pp. 42-52.
  • Ulrich Hermanns: The neo-Gothic reconstruction of the monastery church. In: Dobbertin Monastery. History - building - living. Contributions to art history and monument preservation in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. Volume 2, Schwerin 2012 ISBN 978-3-935770-35-4 pp. 131-137.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Dates of life: family burial site in Boek.
  2. ^ Stephan Baron Le Fort: Typescript . Boek, July 26, 1934.
  3. ↑ Kösener corps lists 1910, 87/71
  4. ↑ Hans Peter Hümmer , Michaela Neubert : Searching for traces of the Jena and Göttingen Vandalia in the family book (1812-1816) Adolph Goetze from Neustrelitz. In: Einst und Jetzt, vol. 60 (2015), p. 67 ff. (P. 87)
  5. ↑ bride letters Brinckmans 1842-1845 , Museum Güstrow, RA 51, letter 60, Dobbertin November 5, 1844.
  6. ↑ Horst Alsleben: Meritorious personalities of the monastery office . 2012 pp. 50–51.
  7. ↑ LHAS 2.21-2 Lehnkammer. Fief files II. No. 51.
  8. ↑ a b LHAS 3.2-3 / 1 Provincial Monastery / Monastery Office Dobbertin. No. 371a Introduction of the monastery rulers 1691–1921.
  9. ↑ LHAS 3.2-3 / 1 Landeskloster / Klosteramt Dobbertin. No. 8 deaths.
  10. ↑ Wolf Karge: Le Fort and Boek. 2014 (manuscript unpublished)
  11. ↑ Horst Alsleben: Meritorious personalities of the monastery office. 2012 pp. 50–51.
  12. ^ Ulrich Hermanns: The neo-Gothic reconstruction of the monastery church. 2012 pp. 131-133.
  13. ↑ LHAS 09/10 L / 06 personal estate Lisch, Friedrich (1801–1883) No. 193 Restoration of the church in Dobbertin.
  14. ↑ Horst Alsleben: The Jungfrauenkloster as a Protestant women's monastery - a monastery office in Mecklenburg-Schwerin. In: Dobbertin Monastery. History - building - living. Schwerin 2012, pp. 50–51.
  15. ↑ Horst Alsleben: The monastery was a place of education for country school teachers. SVZ, Lübz October 20, 2005.
  16. ↑ LHAS 3.2-3 / 1 Landeskloster / Klosteramt Dobbertin. No. 1302 Main register of the Dobbertin Monastery, 1866.
  17. ↑ LHAS 10.9-L / 6 Nachlass Lisch, Friedrich. No. 640 Publication of documents from the Dobbertin Monastery and their safe storage in the Schwerin State Main Archives.
  18. ^ Franz Schildt: Matriculation of the Association for Mecklenburg History and Antiquity from 1835 to 1885. In: Mecklenburgische Jahrbücher (1885) Volume 50.
  19. ^ Matthias Proske: Framework plan for the Dobbertin monastery complex. In: Dobbertin Monastery, History - Building - Life. Schwerin 2012 pp. 370, 371, 376.
  20. ↑ LHAS 5.11-2 Protocols of the Landtag , Sternberg November 16, 1853.
  21. ^ Church book Dobbertin 1805-1905: Those born and baptized in the parish February 1838.
  22. ^ Stephan Baron Le Fort: Typescript. Boek, July 26, 1934.
  23. ↑ LHAS 2.26-2 Court Marshal's Office. No. 3459.
  24. ^ First name forms based on Gotha / Freiherrliche Häuser. 1899, pp. 547-548.
  25. ^ Wolfgang Müns, Jürgen Grambow: John Brinckman, letters, documents, texts. Bremen 2002 p. 305.
  26. ↑ LHAS 3.2-4 Knightly fire insurance. No. 872, Boek.
  27. ↑ LHAS 3.2-4 Knightly fire insurance. No. 872, Boek with Bolter Hut 1820–1879.
  28. ^ Dates of life: family burial site in Boek.
personal data
SURNAME Le Fort, Carl Peter Johann von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Merchant and district administrator in Mecklenburg-Schwerin, monastery captain in Dobbertin
DATE OF BIRTH May 24, 1794
PLACE OF BIRTH Möllenhagen
DATE OF DEATH June 27, 1862
Place of death Möllenhagen