Family crypt of Landgrave Friedrich August von Hessen
| Family crypt of Landgrave Friedrich August von Hessen | |
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 Family crypt of Landgrave Friedrich August von Hessen (2015) |
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| place | Griesheim |
| Builder | Karoline von Friedrich, b. Seitz |
| Architectural style | classicism |
| Construction year | 1809 |
| Coordinates | 49 ° 51 '34.9 " N , 8 ° 32' 59.2" E |
The family crypt of Landgrave Friedrich August von Hessen (1759–1808) is a listed building in Griesheim .
History and description
The monument , erected in classical forms, dates from 1809. The owner of the monument was the prince's civil wife, Karoline von Friedrich, née Seitz (1768–1812). The only person buried is her son, Baron Ferdinand August von Friedrich.
A sandstone monument rises on the flat-roofed crypt , half of which is buried in the ground . On the front of the memorial there are two semi-sculptural angels that lean over a block-like tablet. Two fully plastic lions lie in front of the monument and look in opposite directions.
Monument protection
The family crypt of Prince Friedrich August, Landgrave of Hesse, is a listed building for architectural, architectural, urban and regional historical reasons .
Family history background
Friedrich Georg August Prince of Hesse-Darmstadt (* July 21, 1759 in Darmstadt, † May 19, 1808 in Groß-Gerau) was a son of Georg Wilhelm of Hesse-Darmstadt . He embarked on a military career and became a lieutenant in the Hessian bodyguard in 1767, major in 1769, and captain in Kurhannover in 1776. Guards Grenadier Regiment (retired as Colonel in 1783) and finally Colonel in the Royal French Infantry Regiment No. 101 Royal Nassau-Saarbrücken in 1783.
On September 4, 1788, he married the commoner Karoline Luise Salome Seitz in Griesheim (born June 24, 1768 in Darmstadt, † June 20, 1812 there). In such a morganatic marriage , the children did not receive the privileges of the higher-ranking husband, but the lower position of the wife. Therefore, the landgrave ennobled the wife to "wife of Friedrich". Accordingly, their son did not have the name and title of a Hessian prince, but that of "Freiherr von Friedrich".
Ferdinand August Freiherr von Friedrich (1800–1879) became the Grand Duke of Hesse as chamberlain .
literature
- Siegfried RCT Enders et al .: Darmstadt-Dieburg district. ( Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany , cultural monuments in Hessen .) Vieweg Verlag, Braunschweig 1988, ISBN 3-528-06235-5 , p. 189.