Immortelle wreath

"Platoon leaders, Immortellen wreaths, banners of the Bernstorff & Eichwede'schen factory"

As immortelles (rarely Immortellenkrone ) was mainly in the 19th century, a wreath of flowers with petals trockenhäutigen (s. Dried flowers called) that do not wither and therefore long time remain unchanged. The term is derived from the French adjective immortel = immortal . Immortelle wreaths were mainly used as mourning jewelry, they came in several natural colors, but were occasionally colored. Immortelle wreaths made from everlasting flowers were or are particularly popular to this day .

Occasionally the term is also used in a figurative sense for texts, songs or poems (or entire cycles of them), which were usually written in memory of the deceased.

Examples

When, after the end of the personal union between Great Britain and Hanover, on June 28, 1837, King Ernst August moved into the royal seat of the Kingdom of Hanover and his wife Queen Friederike also drove through the gate of honor to receive her, the teacher Georg Gläser collected the "on her highest journey in die Residenz ”received poems and speeches and summarized them in the same year into a wreath of immortelles.
In the Ernst August album , published around 1862 , which describes the events surrounding the erection of the Ernst August monument in Hanover in honor of the deceased “ sovereign ” of the Kingdom of Hanover , “[picture] panel II” can be found in the table of contents the description: “Zugführer. Immortelle wreaths. Banner of the Bernstorff & Eichwede'sche factory. "

literature

An immortelle wreath on a royal tomb . In: The Gazebo . Issue 30, 1864, pp. 480 ( full text [ Wikisource ]).

Individual evidence

^ Klaus Mlynek : Ernst August, King of Hanover. In: Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein (eds.) U. a .: City Lexicon Hanover . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2009, ISBN 978-3-89993-662-9 , p. 163 f.
↑ General bibliography for Germany. An overview of German literature with details of future works and other communications and notes relating to literary traffic , 2nd year, FA Brockhaus, Leipzig 1837, p. 678; Digitized via Google books
↑ Illustrations. In: Ernst August Album , Hanover: Klindworth's Hof-Druckerei, [1862?], P. X; Digitized by the "Digital State Library of Upper Austria"

[1] Klaus Mlynek : Ernst August, King of Hanover. In: Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein (eds.) U. a .: City Lexicon Hanover . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2009, ISBN 978-3-89993-662-9 , p. 163 f.

[2] General bibliography for Germany. An overview of German literature with details of future works and other communications and notes relating to literary traffic , 2nd year, FA Brockhaus, Leipzig 1837, p. 678; Digitized via Google books

[3] Illustrations. In: Ernst August Album , Hanover: Klindworth's Hof-Druckerei, [1862?], P. X; Digitized by the "Digital State Library of Upper Austria"