Dorothea Louise of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg

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Dorothea Louise (born October 11, 1663 at Augustenburg Castle ; † April 21, 1721 ) was a princess from the house of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg and abbess of the noble monastery Itzehoe .

Life

Dorothea Louise was the fifth daughter and the eighth child of Duke Ernst Günther I of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg (1609–1689) and his wife, Princess Auguste of Schleswig-Holstein-Glücksburg (1633–1701). The family resided at Augustenburg Castle, which Ernst Günther founded on the island of Alsen in 1660 and named after his wife Auguste. The Duchy of Sonderburg went bankrupt in 1667 and fell back to Frederick III. , the King of Denmark and Norway and in personal union Duke of Schleswig . The members of the Augustenburg line retained their titles, but were now dukes without a duchy.

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Princess Dorothea Louise was appointed abbess of the noble monastery of Itzehoe on October 9, 1683 at the age of twenty by King Christian V , who in 1670 succeeded his father Friedrich III. had started. With the “Recommendatur des Fraüleins from Sønderborg”, King Christian V violated the statutes of the Protestant women's monastery, according to which since 1634 unmarried or widowed conventual women could have chosen their abbess. Both the aristocratic women and Christian Albrecht , Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Gottorf since 1659, contradicted the appointment . The Duke's influence, however, was limited because in 1684 Christian V's troops drove him into exile from Gottorf Castle in Hamburg . It was not until the Altona Treaty that Duke Christian Albrecht regained his rule in 1689.

Because of these disputes, Dorothea Louise had to wait until 1687 before she was solemnly introduced as abbess. Even after that she did not reside permanently in Itzehoe, as her letter of October 15, 1690 from Augustenburg shows. As the address she wrote on the outside of the letter under the ducal seal: “To the worthy, well-honored and devout virgin conveners of the noble Convention zu Itzehoe, our dear ones special. etc. - Inn Itzehoe. ” In the letter she announced as “ abteißen ” (abbess) and “ the youngest conventual lady very affectionate friend ” that she had appointed the cloister master Walert to her advice.

House Klosterhof 7 in the aristocratic monastery Itzehoe

A representative abbess house (today Klosterhof 7) was built for Dorothea Louise directly on the northeast corner of Itzehoer Laurentius Church and completed in 1696, nine years after she took office.

Monastic manorial rule

The noble monastery of Itzehoe has always had its own land. The area of Langwedel in Holstein had also become the property of the convent through purchases and donations between 1376 and 1418. But this by no means made the peasants serfs . They did not have to provide the monastery with any “unmeasured” services, but had to pay quarterly rent / taxes, sometimes also special charges.

As abbess, Dorothea Louise put the “ Baurbrief ” into force on February 15, 1700 in Itzehoe with a “princely hand sign” (signature) and official seal , which all residents of the village of Langwedel had previously signed on February 10, 1700. This private law village regulation, also known as popular in the High German text , regulated the relationship between residents in thirty-one paragraphs. In the event of misconduct, penalties had to be paid to the Langwedeler "Baurlag"; in addition, the “High Monastic Authority” could impose arbitrary sanctions. The bailiff appointed by the monastery had to ensure compliance with the agreement on site and report to the authorities in serious cases. In the years 1698–1703 Hans Blunecke was employed as monastery bailiff. He signed the approval as "Hanß blunke", as the first resident after Friedrich von Reventlow , the bitterness (legal representative) of the monastery.

literature

  • Martin Rheinheimer: The village regulations of the Duchy of Schleswig. Village and authorities in the early modern period. Volume 1: Introduction. Lucius & Lucius, Stuttgart 1999, DNB 954887506 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Landesarchiv Schleswig-Holstein, Department 123; No. 408.
  2. ^ Landesarchiv Schleswig-Holstein, Department 123; No. 409.
  3. ^ Robert Renner: Langwedel, Blocksdorf - Enkendorf - Pohlsee. Editing and design by Winfried Sarnow. Druck- und Verlagsgesellschaft Husum, 1983, p. 36 and p. 80.
  4. ^ Landesarchiv Schleswig-Holstein, Department 123; No. 1875.
  5. ^ Renner Robert: Langwedel, Blocksdorf - Enkendorf - Pohlsee. 1983, p. 37.
predecessor Office Successor
Dorothea von Buchwald 1669–1683 Abbess of Itzehoe Monastery
(1683) 1687–1721
Margaretha Katharina von Ahlefeldt 1721–1727