Heinrich Christoph von Willich

Heinrich Christoph Willich , from 1786 von Willich (born May 26, 1759 in Sagard ; † February 28, 1827 ibid) was a Protestant pastor in Sagard on Rügen .

Life

He came from the Willich theologian family from the Mark Brandenburg and was the son of the Protestant pastor Philipp Georg Willich (1720–1787) in Sagard, who was raised to imperial nobility in 1786, and his third wife Marianne Regina Schwarz . In 1782 Willich took over the pastor's position at the Saint Michael Church in Sagard from his father. In 1794, together with his half-brother Moritz von Willich, he founded the "fountain, bathing and entertainment establishment" as the first health resort on the island of Rügen. He had a fountain built for the mineral spring with iron, lime and carbonated water, a bathing pavilion built, which was opened on July 4, 1795, and a small green area (fountain floodplain) with arcades laid out in his pastor's paddock. In 1804 he commissioned the construction of the stone bridge in Sagard to facilitate travel to Stubbenkammer . However, the spa business came to an early end as early as 1806 under French occupation during the coalition wars.

Willich's grave slab can be found today on the church square of his Sankt Michael Church, south of the chancel.

Willich was related by marriage to the theologian Friedrich Schleiermacher , who in 1809 was 19-year-old Henriette, b. von Mühlenfels , widow of his nephew Ehrenfried von Willich (1777–1807), had married.

Web links

• Literature about Heinrich Christoph von Willich in the state bibliography MV

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Barbara Branscheid: Rügen, Hiddensee , 2005, page 130 ( digitized version )
2. ↑ Mitteldeutsches Jahrbuch für Kultur und Geschichte , Volume 13 (2006), pages 73 + 77, Stiftung Mitteldeutscher Kulturrat (publisher), Böhlau Verlag, 2006 ( excerpt )