Friedrich Eugen von Hobe

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Friedrich Eugen von Hobe , also von Hoben (baptized March 23, 1761 in Carlewitz (now part of Marlow ), † September 24, 1809 in Schorssow ) was a German forest and court official.

Life

Friedrich Eugen von Hobe (n) comes from the Mecklenburg noble family von Hobe . His father Jochim Ernst von Hobe was a captain in the Danish service.

At the age of 13 he entered the ducal military academy Karlsschule in Stuttgart as a cavalier , like his older brother Johann Wilhelm. From 1777 to 1779 he was a respondent in disputations chaired by Jakob Friedrich von Abel . In 1780 Hobe finished his studies and was dismissed with the rank of lieutenant. But he must also have served in the Württemberg officer corps afterwards, because in 1787 he was dismissed as having not been on vacation .

Hobe house in Neustrelitz

From 1790 he can be traced in the court service of Mecklenburg-Strelitz , initially as an upper chamber junker and chief forest master. In 1792 he worked as a court hunter in the ducal forest college. After Duke Charles II took office in 1794, Hobe was taken over into his immediate service and in 1796 he was in the ducal court. From 1803 he headed Duke Carl's court as court marshal . After him, the palace, in which the court marshal's office was housed and which today houses the registry office of the city of Neustrelitz, was named Hobe-Haus .

Hobe died of a fever on his way back from Dobbertin monastery during a visit to Schorssow and was buried “in the vault” (the Moltke family crypt) in the village church of Bülow (Schorssow) .

He was married to Maria Margaretha Elisabeth (Lisette), geb. from Lützow . Four children are known: Adolfine von Hobe (d. 1829) as lady-in-waiting to Princess Paul von Württemberg . Charlotte von Hobe (1792–1852), writer and canon. A son August von Hobe (1791–1867) became a Prussian officer, received the order Pour le Mérite on May 27, 1813 at the age of 22 and was district administrator for the Osthavelland district from 1826 to 1842 . Another son Carl (* 1790) fell as a lieutenant in the C-Hussars in the Battle of Leipzig .

Lock belt

The originally around 50 hectare site on Mirow - Wesenberger Landstrasse (today Useriner Strasse ) along the Zierker See has been used as pasture since 1755. After Duke Charles II took office in 1794, on the advice of Hobes, the paddock was drained with canals and ditches and converted into an English landscape park with tree alleys , which was connected to Neustrelitz Castle Park via an avenue through the official gardens . In 1808 its use as a pasture ended completely. The planting of today's oldest trees, oaks and beeches, can be dated to this time. An extensive network of curved paths opened up the castle paddock. Next to the main path, which runs parallel to the waterfront, a straight path ended in a roundabout. One of the main features of the Lustwäldchen was a lawn with a mighty oak, which was named by King Friedrich Wilhelm III. mentioned during his visit with Queen Luise shortly before her death in 1810. In the further course of the 19th century, additional plants and flower beds were laid out and the palace paddock was expanded to the east, so that the palace garden, palace paddock and zoo formed a completely connected area for the first time. Towards the end of the century, however, the park had outgrown its horticultural appearance and developed into a forest.

After 1918 the castle paddock fell into disrepair; In the newer part, sports and parade grounds were created in 1937 (today the Park Stadium and Rudolf Harbig Stadium of TSG Neustrelitz ), in the former ducal gardens an allotment garden, the rest was left to its own devices and turned into a swampy quarry forest . A first attempt to get the site back into shape was made in 1990 with ABM personnel. Due to the lack of care afterwards, the park was in danger of becoming an inaccessible jungle . At the beginning of 2017, the Neustrelitz city administration presented the first plans for maintenance and a possible fundamental restoration.

memory

In 1813, Duke Karl II had Christian Philipp Wolff erect a memorial at the source (the Spring ) in the palace paddock in memory of Hobe . For this purpose, Wolff Sandstein from the construction of the New Palace (not preserved) was made available. Wollf's work included the edging and design of the spring as well as its superstructure with the monument. The monument itself was a slightly tapered, almost three meter high, truncated obelisk with a base area of ​​1.7 mx 1.7 m. The conclusion is formed by a cornice with corner actroteries, between which there are flat tympanums on the front and back, filled with naturalistic oak branches. Below the cornice, a semicircular flat niche is incorporated on each side, which is decorated with a relief on the visible side. It shows a goblet entwined with leaf ornaments, from which all kinds of floral decorations well up. Finally, a stylized butterfly hovers over the chalice (as a sign of the resurrection). A white marble slab was probably added later, bearing the inscription: In gratitude, Carl Herzog zu Mecklenburg has dedicated this monument to the founder and creator of these quiet walks and surroundings, Friedrich Eugen von Hobe. 1813. In 1821 it was repaired by Friedrich Wilhelm Buttel .

After 1945 the obelisk fell victim to vandalism. In the 1990s, a simple stone was set up a little to the rear and a new metal plaque with the original inscription was attached to it. Wolff's stone edging of the spring, which has now dried up, is still there and was secured by a fence in 2000. The monument, which is also known as the Hobe fountain , is one of the elements of the palace paddock that, according to the will of the city of Neustrelitz in 2017, has to be maintained and, if necessary, repaired .

  • Hobe Memorial (1922)

  • Hobe monument with spring surround (2009)

literature

  • Martin Kurt Günter Ebeling: From pasture to forest - land use history of a communal open space. Master of Science Thesis, University of Neubrandenburg 2016 digitized

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ His date of birth is not recorded; the date of baptism (March 23, 1761) according to the Ribnitz church book , accessed via ancestry.com on April 28, 2018
  2. ↑ Date and place follow a necrology by his daughter von Brüssow (1831) and are also mentioned in a note in Familiengeschichtliche Blätter 6/7 (1909), p. 201. He then died on September 24, 1809 in Schorssow while visiting Carl Gustav Ludwig von Moltke . The indication of the year of death (1808) in more recent literature is based on an estimate by Carl Schröder ( Mecklenburg and the Mecklenburg in der Schönen Literatur. Berlin 1909, p. 141); the indication of the place of death ( Neustrelitz ) is a conjecture of more recent authors after his last place of office and is found neither in Schröder nor elsewhere.
  3. ↑ Biographical information from Ebeling (Lit.), p. 108
  4. ↑ Studied from 1772–1779, joined the Prussian forest service and in 1791 wrote instructions for a better wood culture, especially in the county of Mark and similar countries. Münster: Perrenon 1791
  5. ^ Wolfgang Riedel: Jacob Friedrich Abel: a source edition on philosophy lessons at the Karlsschule in Stuttgart (1773-1782). Königshausen & Neumann 1995 ISBN 9783884799628 , p. 635
  6. ^ Paul Lemcke: The Württemberg officer corps in the 18th century. In: Württembergische Vierteljahreshefte für Landesgeschichte 2 (1879), p. 113
  7. ↑ Entry in the Bülow Church's burial register, accessed on ancestry.com on May 1, 2018
  8. ↑ 1829/1831, after being mistaken for her sister Charlotte, the press falsely reported the death reports; In the poem Die Todtgeglaubte , printed as a reply , Charlotte then says: “It was the sister's dear head * | that fallen by death; | when a laurel leaves me lightly | she stays in palm halls. "
  9. ↑ Obituary, in Berlinische Nachrichten von Staats- und schehrten Dinge 1813, p. [1]
  10. ↑ Ebeling (Lit.), p. 73
  11. ↑ Ebeling (Lit.), p. 74
  12. ↑ Ebeling (Lit.), p. 91
  13. ↑ Will the castle paddock become a jungle? , Nordkurier from April 4, 2015, accessed on April 28, 2018
  14. ↑ Urban development: Neustrelitz wants to clean up the Schlosskoppel. , Nordkurier on February 4, 2017, accessed on April 28, 2018
  15. ↑ Ebeling (Lit.), p. 51
  16. ↑ Ebeling (lit.), p. 53 with illus.
  17. ↑ Urban development: Neustrelitz wants to clean up the Schlosskoppel. , Nordkurier on February 4, 2017, accessed on April 28, 2018
personal data
SURNAME Hobe, Friedrich Eugen von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German forest and court official
DATE OF BIRTH baptized March 23, 1761
PLACE OF BIRTH Carlewitz (now part of Marlow )
DATE OF DEATH September 24, 1809
Place of death Schorssow