Christine Luise from Oettingen-Oettingen

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Christine Luise von Oettingen, Duchess of Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel, painting from the Imperial Hall in Blankenburg Castle, approx. 1720

Christine Luise von Oettingen-Oettingen (born March 30, 1671 in Oettingen ; † November 12, 1747 in Blankenburg ) was Princess of Oettingen-Oettingen and by marriage, Duchess of Braunschweig and Lüneburg , Princess of Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel and Princess of Blankenburg.

Life

Christine Luise was a daughter of Albrecht Ernst I of Oettingen-Oettingen (1642–1683), who was raised to the rank of imperial prince in 1674, and his wife, Duchess Christine Friederike von Württemberg (1644–1674). After her mother died early, she was raised in Aurich by her aunt Christine Charlotte von Ostfriesland . It was at the court there that she discovered her passion for the theater and, at the age of 11, played the leading female role in the performance of Le Cid by Pierre Corneille , in which she had to master more than 500 French verses. Together with her future husband, she appeared again as the main character in the tragedy Bérénice by Jean Racine in 1689 .

The princess married Prince Ludwig Rudolf von Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel on April 22, 1690 in Aurich . Christine Luise resided with her husband in Blankenburg from 1707, which was given to him by his father as an allowance. The county of Blankenburg was raised to a principality by Emperor Joseph I in 1707 , after Christine Luise's daughter was the bride of the future Emperor Charles VI. was chosen. In Blankenburg (Harz) Ludwig Rudolf and Christine Luise developed an elaborate court life. In 1728, in honor of his wife, he built a pleasure house, the Luisenburg , which no longer exists on Calvinusberg . Together they supported the efforts of Friederike Caroline Neuber (Neuberin) to reform the German theater. Ludwig Rudolph was their great patron. But Christine Luise also got involved in theater performances and gathered artists and scholars from her former home in Oettingen and East Frisia around her. These included the librarian Georg Septimus Andreas von Praun . Christine Luise influenced her husband several times in political and personal issues.

In 1735 Christine Luise returned to Blankenburg as a widow after the death of her husband from Braunschweig, which she promoted culturally and took care of the maintenance and expansion of the palace complex. At Blankenburg Castle she employed the former tutor of Crown Prince Friedrich of Prussia , Jacques Égide Duhan de Jandun , who had fallen out of favor after the Katte affair , and who was brought back to the Prussian court by Friedrich after the death of his father. Furthermore, from 1739 until her death, she had a Turkish chambermaid Anna Charlotte Rhebisch , who trained her in arithmetic and writing and whose marriage to a pastor she had arranged in 1747. However, she did not live to see the ceremony.

Christine had four daughters from her marriage to Ludwig Rudolf, three of whom reached adulthood. Her father-in-law Anton Ulrich married them so cleverly that Christine Luise became the grandmother of Empress Maria Theresa , Tsar Peter II , the Prussian Queen Elisabeth Christine and the Danish Queen Juliane . She decreed that her husband's extensive library should remain at Blankenburg Castle in memory of him. However, this was later transferred to the Collegium Carolinum, opened in 1745 in Braunschweig, and to the Herzog August Library in Wolfenbüttel in 1764 .

Christine Luise was buried at the side of her husband in Braunschweig Cathedral.

progeny

literature

  • Sunhild Minkner: Notable women. paperback, Wernigerode 1999.
  • Jill Bepler: Christine Luise, Duchess of Braunschweig and Lüneburg, b. Princess of Oettingen. In: Horst-Rüdiger Jarck , Dieter Lent et al. (Ed.): Braunschweigisches Biographisches Lexikon - 8th to 18th century . Appelhans Verlag, Braunschweig 2006, ISBN 3-937664-46-7 , p. 144-145 .
  • Roger Reckwell, Wolfgang Reimann, Hilde Thoms: Blankenburg Castle, crown of a region. Blankenburg 2007.

Web links

Commons : Christine Luise von Oettingen-Oettingen  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c Jill Bepler: Christine Luise, Duchess of Braunschweig and Lüneburg, b. Princess of Oettingen. In: Horst-Rüdiger Jarck , Dieter Lent et al. (Ed.): Braunschweigisches Biographisches Lexikon - 8th to 18th century . Appelhans Verlag, Braunschweig 2006, ISBN 3-937664-46-7 , p. 144-145 .
  2. ^ New patriotic archive or contributions to all-round knowledge d. Kingdom of Hanover and Duchy of Braunschweig . Herold & Wahlstab, Lüneburg 1830, p. 366 ff . ( books.google.de ). or Rainer Lohlker: Abbas Cachiane Kaefe Rhebisch. In: Horst-Rüdiger Jarck , Dieter Lent et al. (Ed.): Braunschweigisches Biographisches Lexikon - 8th to 18th century . Appelhans Verlag, Braunschweig 2006, ISBN 3-937664-46-7 , p. 21 .
  3. ↑ 1764: Duke Ludwig Ernst (1718-1788) 2345 vols; on hab.de
personal data
SURNAME Christine Luise from Oettingen-Oettingen
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Christine Luise von Oettingen
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Princess of Öttingen-Öttingen, by marriage Duchess of Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel and Princess of Blankenburg
DATE OF BIRTH March 30, 1671
PLACE OF BIRTH Oettingen
DATE OF DEATH November 12, 1747
Place of death Blankenburg