Juliane Elisabeth von Waldeck

Juliane Elisabeth von Waldeck (born August 1, 1637 in Reinhardshausen ; † March 20, 1707 in Arolsen ), also known as Countess Cuylenburg during her widowhood , was a benefactress of the poor and orphans.

Live and act

Marriage, widowhood and inheritance disputes

Juliane Elisabeth was a daughter of Count Philipp VII von Waldeck -Wildungen and his wife Anna Katharina von Sayn-Wittgenstein. So she belonged to the Waldeck family . On January 27, 1660 she married Count Heinrich Wolrad (1642–1664) of Waldeck-Eisenberg, son of Count Philipp Dietrich (1614–1645) of Waldeck-Eisenberg. The couple resided at Eisenberg Castle , which was badly damaged by Hesse-Kassel troops in the Thirty Years' War in 1621 . Heinrich Wolrad was the last to have the system repaired. His coat of arms and that of his wife with the year 1662 bear witness to this .

Heinrich Wolrad died in Graz at the age of only 22 on the way to join the imperial troops in the Turkish war of 1663/1664 against the Ottomans . The marriage remained childless. After Heinrich Wolrad's death, the county of Waldeck-Eisenberg fell to his uncle Georg Friedrich (1620–1692). Since Heinrich Wolrad had inherited the county of Cuylenburg in Gelderland through his grandmother, Anna von Baden-Durlach (1585–1649), Juliane Elisabeth denied Georg Friedrich's claim to this property, probably also with reference to the will of her deceased husband. She was therefore also called Countess Cuylenburg until her death. With the help of the lawyer and pietist Johann Jacob Schütz , who also became her spiritual advisor, it was only after years of negotiations that she reached a settlement with Georg Friedrich about her inheritance claims.

Around 1675/76 she moved to Wildungen , the residence of her brother Christian Ludwig von Waldeck-Wildungen (1635–1706), and moved there to the "Cuylenburgische Haus" or "Stadtschlösschen Cuylenburg" on the south side of Brunnenstrasse not far from the church square. In 1696 she had the then "Salzborn", renamed "Helenenquelle" in 1886 , bordered after the consumption of its water had improved her health.

Charitable work

However, it stood out particularly for its charity towards the poor, the sick and orphans . As early as 1694 she donated a first orphanage opened in 1695 (replaced by a new building around 1738) on a plot of land that was vacated by a major fire in Hintergasse / Hinterstrasse . Then she convinced her brother Christian Ludwig and his son Friedrich Anton Ulrich of the need to set up an orphanage for the entire county in Wildungen. The decision was made at the end of April 1700, and the ceremonial inauguration of the "Waisenhof", a mighty, four-storey half - timbered building in Hinterstrasse, at the corner of Waisengasse, took place on Advent in 1702. After the poor and orphanage established in Kassel in 1690 , the house in Wildungen was only the second in Hesse; the orphanages in Hersfeld (1709) and Marburg (1712) followed a few years later .

The Wildung Foundation Deed determined u. a. that a collection should be made for the orphanage at all weddings and funerals throughout the county . In January 1717, Prince Friedrich Anton Ulrich issued another regulation, according to which all princely servants had to pay a monthly salary to the orphanage foundation when they entered service or when they were promoted, and in November of the same year the collection for the orphanage was expanded to include child baptisms .

The orphanage in Wildungen was not just a dormitory. He supported orphans throughout the principality, mostly by placing them in families for a fee ("Präbende") (24 thalers per year) from the orphanage fund or free of charge.

The orphanage was used as such until around 1850. Then it was sold privately. From 1877 to 1881, two rooms in this house housed the city's first kindergarten . From 1890 until the inauguration of the Wildung Synagogue in 1914, the city's Jewish community used a rented room in the building as a prayer room. The historic building has been under renovation since July 2014.

death

Juliane Elisabeth von Waldeck died childless in March 1707.

literature

• Christian Fleischhauer: friend of the sick and abandoned - Countess Juliane (1637–1707), the founder of the Wildunger orphanage. In: Mein Waldeck, local history supplement to the Waldeckische Landeszeitung, 1970, No. 14.
• Heinrich Hochgrebe, Gerhard Kessler: Juliane Elisabeth von Waldeck, called Countess Cuylenburg - founder of the Wildung orphanage. Waldeck Historical Society, Bad Wildungen district group, 1990

Footnotes

1. ↑ Anna was the heir to the Margrave Jacob III. von Baden (1562–1590) and his wife Elisabeth von Pallandt -Culemborg, daughter and sole heir of Count Florentius (Floris) Pallandt (1537–1598), who had become Count of Cuylenburg in 1555.
2. ↑ Andreas Deppermann: Johann Jakob Schütz and the beginnings of Pietism. (Contributions to historical theology 119.) Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen, 2002, ISBN 3-16-147753-7 , pp. 118–119
3. ↑ Altstadtzeitung , issue 11, May 2014, p. 12  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
4. ↑ KA Schmid (Ed.): Encyclopedia of the Entire Education and Teaching System, Volume 10. Besser, Gotha, 1875, p. 237
5. ↑ L. Curtze & F. von Rheins: History and description of the Church of St. Kilian zu Corbach. Arolsen, 1843, p. 244
6. ↑ L. Curtze & F. von Rheins: History and description of the Church of St. Kilian zu Corbach. Arolsen, 1843, p. 244
7. ↑ L. Curtze & F. von Rheins: History and description of the Church of St. Kilian zu Corbach. Arolsen, 1843, p. 244
8. ↑ The principality of Waldeck-Pyrmont and its social and political development since 1848. In: Our time, year book for Conversations-Lexikon, Volume 6, Brockhaus, Leipzig, 1862, p. 677
9. ↑ Altstadtzeitung, issue 11, May 2014, p. 12  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
10. ↑ http://www.alemannia-judaica.de/bad_wildungen_synagoge.htm