Juliane of Hessen-Kassel
Juliane zu Hessen-Kassel , also Juliane von Hessen , completely Juliane Luise Amalie (born January 19, 1773 at Gottorf Castle , † March 11, 1860 in Itzehoe ), was a princess from the house of Hessen-Kassel and abbess of the Itzehoe monastery .
Life
Juliane was the second daughter and fourth child of Landgrave Karl von Hessen-Kassel and his wife Louise, a daughter of King Friedrich V of Denmark . Her older sister Marie later became Queen of Denmark through her marriage to Crown Prince Friedrich .
In 1810, as the successor to Sophia Magdalena von Qualen, she became head of the aristocratic Itzehoe monastery, which had been a Protestant women's monastery for the Schleswig-Holstein knighthood since the Reformation .
She resided in the Prinzesshof , where her uncle, Landgrave Wilhelm I , stayed for a while during his exile in the Napoleonic Wars.
After her death, her niece Princess Luise zu Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg , the daughter of her youngest sister Luise Karoline von Hessen-Kassel , succeeded her.
Monuments
A neo-Gothic monument in the cloister courtyard and one of the princess sculptures made by the Schmidt company (Itzehoe) in the courtyard of the Prinzesshof commemorate Juliane.
literature
- Eike von Hacht, Working Group Itzehoer Geschichte (ed.): Juliane Princess zu Hessen-Kassel (1773-1860), abbess of the noble monastery of Itzehoe. A life between class barriers and self-determination. Itzehoe 2008, ISBN 978-3-00-024065-2
Web links
- Hessen-Kassel, Princess Juliane of. Hessian biography. (As of February 28, 2020). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
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| SURNAME | Hessen-Kassel, Juliane zu |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Hessen, Juliane von; Hessen-Kassel, Amalie Juliane Luise too |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Princess from the House of Hessen-Kassel and Abbess of the Itzehoe Monastery |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 19, 1773 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Gottorf Castle |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 11, 1860 |
| Place of death | Itzehoe |