Friedrich Ludwig von Rochow

Friedrich Ludwig von Rochow (born June 16, 1745 on Gut Stülpe near Luckenwalde , Mark Brandenburg ; † September 13, 1808 on Gut Plessow near Potsdam ) was a Prussian chamberlain and landowner .

Life

He came from the von Rochow family , one of the oldest aristocratic families in Brandenburg, and was the third son of Adam Ernst II von Rochow (1705-1759), landlord on Stülpe and district administrator of the Luckenwalde district , and his second wife Christiane Luise von Thümen (1721 –1745) from Blankensee .

Rochow joined the Prussian army of Frederick the Great at the age of fifteen . There he served as a standard junker, cornet (ensign) and for many years as a lieutenant . He was a knight of the Order of St. John and a royal Prussian chamberlain . He took over Plessow from his grand uncle, Lieutenant General Hans Friedrich von Rochow .

After assuming the inheritance in 1787/1788, Friedrich Ludwig immediately became the client and had a new mansion built there based on the model of a baroque town house in Potsdam . He was able to use the experiences of his family during the construction, because both his maternal grandfather, Christian Wilhelm von Thümen, and his father built new mansions in Blankensee and on Stülpe. At least until 1945 an alliance coat of arms (no longer available today) of the Rochow coat of arms (three double horse heads with an ibex ) with the octagonal cross of the Order of St. John was on the building on Gut Plessow . With its many individual links, such as cuboids, frames and console blocks, Plessow is probably the smallest lock in the world. The park used to be considered a peculiar example of the transition period between strict and free garden art. Strange meandering paths, admittedly no longer there today, must have been very interesting from the perspective of the house.

family

From Rochow's grave in Krahne

Friedrich Ludwig married the very wealthy widow Susanne Margarete Wegely née Susanne Margarete Wegely on July 12, 1773 in Berlin. Wilckens (1727–1785), daughter of an old wealthy merchant family from Bremen and widow of the "noble Berlin merchant and banker" Andreas Daniel Wegely, who on August 14, 1785 in Carlsbad during a spa stay with her husband and daughter Caroline von Arnim-Kröchlendorff (Fictional character by ETA Hoffmann) died and was buried in Johanngeorgenstadt in the presence of Goethe .

Rochow married Anna Karoline Dietrika von Schmalensee (born September 23, 1765 in Neubrandenburg ; † June 19, 1801 at Gut Plessow), the daughter of the ducal Mecklenburg-Strelitz, on June 11, 1787 in Neustrelitz ( Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania ) as a widower in second marriage 'rule Oberhof Marshal and butler Georg Adolf von Schmalensee and Maria Elisabeth Engel made by Bresen. In his third marriage, he married the sister of his second wife, Anna Dorothea Christina von Schmalensee (born May 30, 1769 in Neubrandenburg; † November 4, 1811 in Potsdam) on June 9, 1802 at Gut Plessow.

Rochow's marriage to Anna Karoline Dietrika von Schmalensee resulted in four daughters and three sons. The eldest son Adolf Friedrich August (1788–1869) inherited Stülpe, where he was landlord for almost 50 years and became the first commander of the Brandenburg Provincial Cooperative of the Order of St. John after this association was re-established. In this capacity he had the order's first hospital built, Jüterbog . His family chronicle was published in 1861 under the title News on the history of the von Rochow family and their possessions . His monograph Das Schloss Stülpe from 1868 focuses on the history of the estate and location of Stülpe. The second son Hans Karl Dietrich (1791-1857) made it up to the Prussian lieutenant colonel and court marshal and was a knight of the Order of St. John. He inherited the rule of Plessow and later the goods Krahne and Rotscherlinde. The third son Rudolf Friedrich Wilhelm Karl (1795–1801) died prematurely.

literature

• Genealogical handbook of the nobility , noble houses A volume VIII, p. 404, volume 38 of the complete series, CA Starke Verlag, Limburg (Lahn) 1966, ISSN  0435-2408
• Andreas Kitzing: A memorial stone for love. In: Märkische Allgemeine Zeitung . Edition Teltow Fläming, November 27, 1998, p. 19.
• Adolf Friedrich August von Rochow (Hrsg.): News on the history of the family of those von Rochow and their possessions. Berlin 1861, p. 143 f., P. 159 f., P. 172 f., P. 180 f.
• Walter von Leers (Ed.): The pupils of the Knight Academy in Brandenburg aH 1705-1913. Self-published by the association of former pupils of the Brandenburg Knight Academy , Ludwigslust 1913, p. 16, p. 29, p. 110, p. 168.
• Hans Joachim Helmigk: Märkische manors from old times. Berlin 1929, p. 125 f., P. 169.
• Wilckens: Krepon, Kredit u.Porzellan, the Wegely family. 2008, ISBN 978-3-9522896-3-1 .