Juliane von Hessen-Philippsthal

Juliane von Hessen-Philippsthal, Countess von Schaumburg-Lippe

Mausoleum of Countess Juliane in the Schaumburg Forest

Landgravine Juliane Wilhelmine Luise von Hessen-Philippsthal (born June 8, 1761 in Zütphen , † November 9, 1799 in Bückeburg ) from the House of Hesse was regent of Schaumburg-Lippe from 1787 to 1799 .

Life

Juliane was a daughter of Landgrave Wilhelm von Hessen-Philippsthal (1726–1810) and his wife Landgravine Ulrike Eleonore von Hessen-Philippsthal-Barchfeld (1732–1795). Partly raised in Herzogenbusch , where her father served as a Dutch general, she received a German upbringing.

On October 10, 1780, she married Count Philipp II. Ernst von Schaumburg-Lippe in Philippsthal . Philipp Ernst, 57 years old at the time of the marriage and a widower, died after seven years of marriage. Together with Count Johann Ludwig von Wallmoden-Gimborn, Juliane took over the reign of their underage son Georg Wilhelm . Immediately afterwards, Landgrave Wilhelm von Hessen-Kassel had Schaumburg-Lippe militarily occupied as a fallen fiefdom . By switching on the Reichshofrat and with support from Hanover and Prussia, Juliane achieved the rapid withdrawal of Wilhelm's troops.

Juliane's government is said to be extraordinarily beneficial. She carried out far-reaching reforms in the economy and the school system, restricted the keeping of the court, continued the tolerant Jewish policy of her father-in-law and was able to implement tax cuts. She appointed Bernhard Christoph Faust as a personal physician and provided him with significant support in introducing the smallpox vaccination .

Juliane had Hagenburg Castle redesigned and is considered the founder of the Eilsen spa .

She died after a bad cold and was buried in a mausoleum in the Schaumburg Forest . Count Wallmoden-Gimborn continued the custodial government for their son.

Your estate is located as part of the Schaumburg-Lippische Hausarchiv in the state archive in Bückeburg .

progeny

She had four children with Philip II Ernst :

• Eleonore Luise (1781–1783)
• Wilhelmine Charlotte (1783–1858) ⚭ 1814 Count Ernst Friedrich zu Münster-Ledenburg (1766–1839)
• Georg Wilhelm (1784–1860) ⚭ 1816 Princess Ida Karoline Luise zu Waldeck and Pyrmont (1796–1869)
• Karoline Luise (1786–1846)

From her relationship with Chamberlain and Court Marshal Baron Clemens August von Kaas, she had a son:

• Clemens Anton (1791–1836), Baron von Althaus

literature

• Otto Zaretzky:  Juliane (Countess zu Schaumburg-Lippe) . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 55, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1910, pp. 810-813.
• Horst-Rüdiger Jarck:  Juliane Wilhelmine Luise, Countess of Schaumburg-Lippe. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 10, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1974, ISBN 3-428-00191-5 , pp. 653 f. ( Digitized version ).
• Stefan Brüdermann , Princess Juliane zu Schaumburg-Lippe - a regent of the Late Enlightenment, in: Schaumburgische Mitteilungen 1 (2017), pp. 134–152.

Web links

• Schaumburg-Lippe, Juliane Wilhelmine Luise Countess to. Hessian biography. (As of February 16, 2020). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).