Johanne Amalie von Elterlein

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Memorial plaque at the entrance to Obere Schloßstraße 10 in Schwarzenberg
The first four stanzas of the Heiligobndlieds, printed in 1848 by Johann Traugott Lindner in walks through the most interesting areas of the Saxon Upper Ore Mountains

Johanne Amalie von Elterlein , b. Benkert, (born October 27, 1784 in Annaberg , † November 20, 1865 in Schwarzenberg / Erzgeb. ) Was a German native song poet from the western Ore Mountains .

Life

Johanne Amalie was born in 1784 as the daughter of the Annaberg grocer Christian Ehregott Benkert and his wife Dorothea. In 1804 she married Carl Heinrich von Elterlein, hereditary lord and court lord on Drebach and co-owner of the hammer works in Rittersgrün , with whom she had three children. After his death, she moved to Pfeilhammer in 1846 and is said to have composed the first stanzas of the Erzgebirge “ Heiligohmdliedes ” (Dr Weihnachtsheiligobnd). The first publication of 14 stanzas in the walks through the most interesting areas of the Saxon Upper Ore Mountains by Johann Traugott Lindner was probably made in 1848. There it says under the heading Großpöhla:

Among the proletarians (there are) a lot of strange customs and superstitious demeanor characteristic of family life, especially at Christmas time, which one encounters in the following little song, which a Pöhlaerin herself wrote in her dialect.

This is followed by 14 stanzas of the Holy Ombudsman under the heading Christmas . Lindner does not mention the name Amalie von Elterlein.

However, there is much to suggest that the text was written around 1799, when Johanna Amalie was 15 years old and lived in Annaberg. In particular, the urban-bourgeois environment dealt with in her verses and people who can be found under their bourgeois names in the population tables of the years 1799 and 1800 in the Annaberg city archive strengthen this assumption. The illustrations for the song postcards for the Holy Ombudsman come from the Annaberg painter Rudolf Köselitz .

A plaque commemorates her on the house in Schwarzenberg where she spent the end of her life and died. The lower part of the Benkertberg in Annaberg-Buchholz (connecting path between Wilischstraße and Pestalozzistraße ) leads along the property where the so-called Benkert Villa once stood.

literature

  • Bernd Lahl : On the 225th birthday of Johanne Amalie Benkert. - Her Christmas Eve song was written in Annaberg around 1799. In: Erzgebirgische Heimatblätter 6/2009, pp. 23-25, ISSN  0232-6078
  • Manfred Bachmann (Ed.): Johanne Amalie von Elterlein - creator of the "Heilig-Ohmd-Lied". In: Small chronicle of great masters - Erzgebirge we are proud of. Part 1, printer and publisher Mike Rockstroh, Aue 2000, pp. 121–122

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Johann Traugott Lindner : Hikes through the most interesting areas of the Saxon Upper Ore Mountains . Rudolph and Dieterici Verlag, Annaberg 1848, pp. 52–54 ( digitized in the Google book search).
  2. ↑ See Erzgebirgische Heimatblätter 6/2009, pp. 23–24
personal data
SURNAME Elterlein, Johanne Amalie from
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Benkert, Johanne Amalie
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German poet of the Erzgebirge "Heiligohmdlied"
DATE OF BIRTH October 27, 1784
PLACE OF BIRTH Annaberg (Annaberg-Buchholz)
DATE OF DEATH November 20, 1865
Place of death Schwarzenberg / Erzgeb.