Dorothea Sophie of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Plön

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Dorothea Sophie of Schleswig-Holstein-Plön

Dorothea Sophie von Schleswig-Holstein-Plön (born December 4, 1692 in Plön , † April 29, 1765 in Fürstenberg ) was the daughter of Duke Johann Adolf of Schleswig-Holstein-Plön . As the wife of the Mecklenburg Duke Adolf Friedrich III. , she is considered the "secret regent" of Mecklenburg-Strelitz .

Life

Dorothea Sophie was born in Plön as the daughter of Duke Johann Adolfs von Schleswig-Holstein-Plön and his wife Dorothea Sophie von Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel, a daughter of Duke Rudolf August of Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel .

On April 16, 1709 she married Duke Adolf Friedrich III in Reinfeld . from Mecklenburg-Strelitz. The marriage had two daughters who both died young.

Since her husband was considered "foolish", she had a great influence on him and exercised the real power in the duchy. She is therefore also known as the “secret regent”. The founding of the new residential town Neustrelitz goes back to them. In 1728 she founded the court orchestra and brought Johann Georg Linike and Johann Christian Hertel to the court as band masters. Johann Wilhelm Hertel reports in his autobiography that Dorothea Sophie made it possible to purchase two Forte pianos from Gottfried Silbermann in 1750 . Her favorite Egmont von Chasôt , who previously served at the court of Frederick the Great , exercised much power in the country for a long time . According to the Prussian chamberlain, Count Ernst Ahasverus Heinrich von Lehndorff , he used this power to enrich himself. "More than 200,000 thalers [he] scraped up".

In 1752, after the death of her husband, she fell apart with the Mirow house, which succeeded Adolf Friedrich IV in the state, and had to leave the Strelitz residence . The court orchestra was dissolved. She moved into the widow's residence built for her, the Fürstenberg / Havel Castle . Lehndorff describes her in his diary in 1753 as a "big, [...] ugly woman" with a "terrible bosom" that could be from an "old nurse". He attests to her having a "great tendency to lust". She seemed to him “good-natured and not without a spirit”, even if she spoke no French. According to Countess Voss' memories , she was "extremely gallant".

literature

  • Friederike Drinkuth : more masculine than her husband: Duchess Dorothea Sophie of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderborg-Plön, wife of Adolf Friedrich III. von Mecklenburg-Strelitz, true regent and city founder of Neustrelitz. Schwerin: Helms [2016] ISBN 978-3-944033-00-6

Web links

Commons : Dorothea of ​​Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Plön  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ House Holstein studbook. Retrieved May 29, 2020 .
  2. ^ State bibliography Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. Retrieved May 29, 2020 .
  3. ^ Family tree House Mecklenburg. Retrieved May 30, 2020 .
  4. ^ Eva Badura-Skoda: The Eighteenth-Century Fortepiano Grand and Its Patrons: From Scarlatti to Beethoven. Indiana University Press 2017 ISBN 9780253022646 , pp. 184f
  5. ↑ a b Count Lehndorff: The diaries of Count Lehndorff . Berlin Story, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-86368-034-3 , pp. 99 .
  6. ↑ Countess Voss: Sixty-nine years at the Prussian court . Ed .: Wieland Giebel. Berlin Story, Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-929829-26-6 , pp. 39 .
personal data
SURNAME Dorothea Sophie of Schleswig-Holstein-Plön
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Daughter of Duke Johann Adolf of Schleswig-Holstein-Plön
DATE OF BIRTH 4th December 1692
PLACE OF BIRTH Plön
DATE OF DEATH April 29, 1765
Place of death Furstenberg