Charlotte Clementine von Itzenplitz

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Listed burial site at the field stone church in Pritzhagen

Countess Charlotte Clementine Editha von Itzenplitz (mostly Charlotte Countess von Itzenplitz ; *  August 8, 1835 , †  June 30, 1921 ) from the Brandenburg noble family von Itzenplitz was the administrator of the Brandenburg estates Bollersdorf and Pritzhagen , chairwoman of the Patriotic Women's Association , lady chapter of the Order of Louisen and Lady of Honor at Heiligengrabe .

Life

Charlotte von Itzenplitz was the daughter of Luise Freiin von Sierstorpff (1811–1848) ( House Sierstorpff , Driburg ) and of Heinrich Friedrich von Itzenplitz , Prussian minister, scientist and lawyer as well as landlord of Kunersdorf and heir to the Friedland lordship , which dates from 1540 / 46 secularized Cistercian women - Friedland Monastery had emerged.

After the father had bequeathed the property to Charlotte's sister Louise Gabriele Marie, Charlotte had been managing the partial estates in Bollersdorf and Pritzhagen with the Tornow residential area in Märkische Schweiz since 1883 . With the sale of the property to Louise's nephew, the Rittmeister Wilhelm von Oppen , in 1908, Charlotte's estate management ended.

In 1866, the Prussian Queen and later Empress Augusta founded the Patriotic Women's Association to care for and help the wounded in war , one of the forerunners of the Red Cross . The Queen appointed Charlotte's sister Louise Gabriele Marie (1839-1901) as the first chairperson, who on May 21, 1867 married the Prussian lieutenant general and commander of Breslau Karl von Oppen (April 2, 1824 - May 9, 1896). Thereupon Charlotte replaced her sister in the chairmanship and led the association for half a century from 1867 to 1916. Under the name Charlotte Countess von Itzenplitz , she published the 1683-page handbook of the Fatherland Women's Association in 1917 .

Charlotte von Itzenplitz was also Chapter Lady of the Order of Louise , the highest order of women in the Kingdom of Prussia . King Friedrich Wilhelm III had the order. Donated on August 3, 1814 during the wars of freedom against Napoleon I as a souvenir of his wife Queen Luise , who died in 1810 . The medal, which was limited to 100 women, was awarded in particular to women who had made a living by caring for and helping the wounded in the war. According to the inscription on the grave slab, she was also the canon of the Stift zum Heiligengrabe monastery , a former Cistercian monastery.

tomb

Grave cross

While the - as Theodor Fontane called them - Itzenplitze are mostly buried in the hereditary funeral of the von Lestwitz-Itzenplitz family in Kunersdorf, the listed grave of Charlotte Countess von Itzenplitz is located directly on the southern outer wall of the Pritzhagener Feldsteinkirche . The text on the grave slab reads (with reservation, as far as legible):

Countess Charlotte von Itzenplitz
* August 8, 1835, † June 30, 1921
Honorary donor to Heiligengrabe
Chairwoman of the Patriotic Women's Association 1868–1916
Chapter lady of the Order of Luise
Mistress of Bollersdorf and Pritzhagen 1883–1909

I fought a good fight,
I finished the course,
I kept faith,
henceforth the crown of righteousness is given to me

The last four lines of the funeral motto were chosen after a word Paul gave to Timothy ( 2 Tim 4, 7-8 ).

Works

  • Handbook of the Patriotic Women's Association . Heymann, Berlin 1917, 2nd report. u. exp. Ed. Anniversary edition. DNB 580904318

literature

Web links

Commons : Gräfin Charlotte Gräfin von Itzenplitz  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Gothaisches genealogical pocket book of the German count's houses . Volume 13 . Justus Perthes publishing house, Gotha 1840, p. 259.
  2. ↑ Rudolf Schmidt, p. 44f.
  3. ↑ a b Information board for the Oberbarnimer Feldstein route on the history of Pritzhagen in front of the village church, set up in 2012.
  4. ^ House Tornow am See: History
  5. ↑ Ortrud Wörner-Heil: Noble women as pioneers of vocational training: The rural housekeeping and the Reifensteiner Association (PDF; 2.7 MB). Kassel University Press 2010, ISBN 978-3-89958-904-7 , pp. 407f.
  6. ^ Theodor Fontane: Closing words. In: Walks through the Mark Brandenburg in 8 volumes. Volume 4 Spreeland . Gotthard Erler , Rudolf Mingau (eds.), Aufbau-Verlag , Berlin 1997 ISBN 3-7466-5704-0 , p. 443 ( the final word in the text log ).
  7. ↑ List of monuments of the state of Brandenburg: Landkreis Märkisch-Oderland (PDF) Brandenburg State Office for Monument Preservation and State Archaeological Museum
  8. ^ Image of the grave slab


personal data
SURNAME Itzenplitz, Charlotte Clementine from
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Itzenplitz, Charlotte Countess of
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Landlady
DATE OF BIRTH August 8, 1835
DATE OF DEATH June 30, 1921