Christiane Louise von Rochow
Christiane Louise von Rochow (born May 1, 1734 in Weißenfels ; † May 19, 1808 in Berlin ), born Christiane Louise von Bose , was a social reformer , landlady at Reckahn Castle and wife of Friedrich Eberhard von Rochow .
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Christiane Louise was born on May 1, 1734 in Weißenfels. Her parents were Carl Gottlob von Bose and Christiane, née von Wolffersdorff. Christiane Louise was the oldest of nine children. On May 3rd she was baptized in the Weissenfels Castle Church. There were a total of 25 godparents . Among these were the reigning Duke of Saxony-Weißenfels Christian and his wife, the reigning Duchess Luise Christiana .
Her father died on May 4, 1745, shortly after Christiane Louise's eleventh birthday. During the Second Silesian War , Prussian troops moved into Saxony-Weißenfels that same year . The family fled the city for about eight weeks. After returning in 1745, the mother fell seriously ill and also died on February 1, 1746 at the age of 36, making Christiane Louise and her siblings orphans . Initially, the mother's unmarried sister, Frederike von Wolffersdorff, took over the upbringing of the siblings.
In August 1746 Christiane Louise was placed in a foster family. She came to Friedrich Wilhelm III. von Rochow and his wife Friederike Eberhardine, née von Görne, to Reckahn . Friederike Eberhardine was the cousin of father Carl Gottlob von Bose. Christiane Louise grew up in the von Rochow family in Reckahn Castle . In this way she met her future husband, Friedrich Eberhard, who was almost the same age and the son of the family, who, however, left his parents' house in 1750 to attend a secondary school at the Knight Academy in Brandenburg and then to enter the Prussian military service . Christiane Louise, for her part, who was trained by private tutors, learned to run a manorial household and a manor .
Shortly after Friedrich Eberhard was dishonorably dismissed from Prussian military service in 1758 due to a serious injury to the hand probably suffered during a duel and returned to Reckahn, he and Christiane Louise married on January 3, 1759. It is said to have been a love marriage . In 1760, the foster mother Friederike Eberhardine von Rochow died and Christiane Louise took over the management of the household on Reckahn and Friedrich Eberhard was placed in the fiefdom while his father was still alive . The couple took over the estates in Reckahn, Krahne , Göttin , Meßdunk and Rotscherlinde .
In 1764 Christiane Louise and her husband Friedrich Eberhard traveled to East Prussia to family estates near Insterburg , where Friedrich Eberhard's father had retired. He died a few weeks later.
The couple stayed in Halberstadt several times a year , as Friedrich Eberhard was canon there. Further trips were made.
Christiane Louise supported her husband's educational initiatives, for example when she founded the village school in Reckahn in 1773. The philanthropic model school was opened in January and in 1774 received its own schoolhouse . Further schools were founded in the Rochows' villages, 1775 in Göttin and 1799 in Krahne. Both also supported the establishment of a poor fund , which was founded in the 1760s and grew to 1,000 Reichstaler by 1802 . The Reckahn manor developed into a social meeting place. Many visitors from abroad also inspected the Rochow model school in the village.
In 1798 the couple bought a house in Berlin in which they spent the winters. Christiane Louise's husband died in 1805, three years later, on May 19, 1808, she herself died childless. She was buried at the side of her husband in Reckahn.
Honors
- In 2008, the Rochow Museum Reckahn hosted a special exhibition on Christiane Louise von Rochow entitled Grace and Intelligence. Christiane Louise von Rochow died 200 years ago instead.
- She is honored by the Frauenorte project as an enlightened landlady and social reformer.
literature
- Hanno Schmitt, Anke Lindemann-Stark, Silke Siebrecht (eds.): Grace and Klugheit. Christiane Louise von Rochow died 200 years ago . Book accompanying the exhibition in the Rochow Museum Reckahn from September 28 to December 14, 2008. ISBN 978-3-9809752-2-3
- Annedore Prengel, Hanno Schmidt (Hrsg.): Virtue - Loyalty - Independence . Reckahn Castle as a sociable meeting place for enlightened women. Rochow Museum Reckahn. August 2010. ISBN 978-3-9809752-3-0
Individual evidence
- ^ Special exhibitions at the Rochow Museum . Accessed March 9, 2016.
- ^ Christiane Louise von Rochow . Accessed March 9, 2016.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Rochow, Christiane Louise von |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Bose, Christiane Louise from |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Prussian landowner and social reformer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 1, 1734 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Weissenfels |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 19, 1808 |
| Place of death | Berlin |