Charlotte of Prussia (1831–1855)

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Charlotte of Prussia, Hereditary Princess of Saxony-Meiningen

Friederike Luise Wilhelmine Marianne Charlotte of Prussia (born June 21, 1831 in Schönhausen Palace near Berlin , † March 30, 1855 in Meiningen ) was a Prussian princess and hereditary princess of Saxony-Meiningen by marriage .

Life

Charlotte was the eldest daughter of Prince Albrecht of Prussia (1809–1872), a brother of Kaiser Wilhelm I and King Friedrich Wilhelm IV of Prussia, and of Marianne von Oranien-Nassau (1810–1883), the youngest daughter of King Wilhelm I the Netherlands . In 1849, Charlotte's parents divorced. Albrecht von Prussia had had an extramarital relationship with Rosalie von Rauch , court lady Mariannes and daughter of the Prussian Minister of War Gustav von Rauch , which had been the reason for the couple's separation. Marianne began a love affair with her coachman and later cabinet secretary Johannes van Rossum in 1848 . When she had a child from him in 1849, she was expelled from the Prussian court. Guardianship for Charlotte and her two younger siblings Albrecht and Alexandrine passed to Queen Elisabeth .

On May 18, 1850, Charlotte married the then Hereditary Prince of Saxony-Meiningen (from 1866 Duke Georg II of Saxony-Meiningen ) (1826–1914) in Charlottenburg Palace . One of their applicants was the later King Albert of Saxony . On the occasion of the wedding, the couple received the north wing of the Marble Palace from the Prussian king as a place to live. In the residential town of Meiningen, her husband's hometown, the "Bibra building" of Elisabethenburg Palace was prepared as a further residence. There Charlotte brought on April 1, 1851 with Bernhard, the later Duke Bernhard III. to give birth to their first child. Most of the time, however, the couple stayed in the Italian Villa Carlotta in Tremezzo on Lake Como , which Charlotte received from her mother as a wedding present and which Georg had extensively redesigned. The couple lived in Potsdam from 1853 after Georg took up an officer position in the 1st Guards Regiment on Foot of the Prussian Army.

At the Sachsen-Meiningischer Hof in Meiningen, outside Prussia, Charlotte made it possible for her father to marry Rosalie von Rauch, who was not befitting her class . Charlotte's husband gave her the title of Countess von Hohenau , and an morganatic marriage was concluded. However, the two had to leave Prussia and had Albrechtsberg Castle built in Dresden .

Charlotte was considered to be extremely talented musically and was trained by the music teacher and composer Julius Stern . Among other things, she composed the Geschwindmarsch (March of the Guard Cuirassier Regiment) No. 55 and the Parade March for Turkish Music No. 162 . The former was included in the army march collection . In Meiningen and at Altenstein Castle she made music, danced and played theater together with artists and gave scientific lectures.

Living again in Meiningen, the three-year-old son Georg Albrecht died on January 27, 1855. One day after the birth of the last child, on March 30, 1855, the unnamed son and a few hours later Charlotte died in childbirth. She was buried in the Meiningen Park Cemetery.

progeny

Their marriage had four children:

⚭ 1878 Princess Charlotte of Prussia (1860–1919)
  • Georg Albrecht (1852–1855)
  • Maria Elisabeth (1853–1923)
  • Son (* / † 1855)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Heinemann, Hartmut: "Princess Marianne of the Netherlands (1810-1883) and the Rheingau - A woman between tradition and emancipation. In: Rheingau-Forum 2/2002, p. 4.
  2. ↑ Dorothea Minkels : Elisabeth von Preussen: Königin in der Zeit des Ausmärzens , Books on Demand, 2007, p. 465.
  3. ↑ Silke Marburg: European nobility: King Johann von Sachsen (1801–1873) and the internal communication of a social formation , Akademie Verlag, 2008, p. 283.
  4. ↑ Jörg Meiner: Furniture of the late Biedermeier and historicism , Akademie Verlag, 2008, p. 326.
  5. ↑ a b c d e Alfred Erck / Hannelore Schneider : Life, Death and Transfiguration of Charlotte , published in Meininger Tageblatt on March 30, 2020.
  6. ↑ Duke Georg II of Saxony-Meiningen and the Villa Carlotta ( Memento of December 23, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
  7. ↑ Richard Stern: Memoirs of Julius Stern , BiblioBazaar, LLC, 2008, p. 143.
  8. ^ Adolf Moritz Hofmeister: Handbook of musical literature; or, General systematically ordered list of music, including musical writings and illustrations, printed in Germany and in the neighboring countries, with a list of publishers and prices , Volume 5, F. Hofmeister, 1860, p. 13.
  9. ↑ Duke Georg II of Saxony-Meiningen ( Memento from September 25, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
  10. ↑ Meiningen Park Cemetery. In: ROYALTY (travel) GUIDE. Retrieved June 11, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Prussia, Charlotte von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Prussia, Friederike Luise Wilhelmine Marianne Charlotte von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Duchess of Saxe-Meiningen
DATE OF BIRTH June 21, 1831
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH March 30, 1855
Place of death Meiningen