Louise Friederike von Württemberg

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Louise Friederike (1772), portrait by Georg David Matthieu

L (o) uise Friederike (born February 3, 1722 in Stuttgart ; † August 2, 1791 in Hamburg ) was a princess of Württemberg and, by marriage, Duchess of Mecklenburg in the Mecklenburg-Schwerin region .

Life

She was the daughter of Hereditary Prince Friedrich Ludwig von Württemberg and Henriette Marie von Brandenburg-Schwedt .

Since March 2, 1746 she was married to Friedrich ( the Pious ) zu Mecklenburg . Because of the early death of the bride's father, the wedding took place at the court of her Brandenburg uncle Friedrich-Wilhelm von Brandenburg-Schwedt at Schwedt Castle in Schwedt . The marriage remained childless, so that her nephew Friedrich Franz I , son of her brother-in-law Ludwig , took over the reign after his death.

Every summer, Duchess Louise Friederike moved into a house in Hamburg that the court bought in the early 1760s . After the death of her husband, from the end of 1786, she took her widow's residence in the Rostock palace for the rest of the year . Her portrait “with Mohrenknaben” (1772) by the court painter Georg David Matthieu is in the collection of the State Museum Schwerin .

In 1763 she founded the monastery order Pour la vertu for conventuals of the three Mecklenburg women's monasteries Dobbertin , Ribnitz and Malchow .

Louise Friederike was buried like her husband in the court church in Ludwigslust . Your crypt is located below the altar area, raised as a confessio , with its central pulpit and the curved flights of stairs. The granite sarcophagus of her husband, Duke Friedrich, stands in front of the entrance to the crypt in the middle of the church hall.

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See also

literature

  • Grete Grewolls: Who was who in Mecklenburg and Western Pomerania. The dictionary of persons . Hinstorff Verlag, Rostock 2011, ISBN 978-3-356-01301-6 , p. 6131 .
  • Ulrike Wendt-Sellin: Luise Friederike, Duchess of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (1722-1791), life organization and material scope for a princess between duty, pleasure and pragmatism. Dissertation, Rostock, 2012 digitized

Web links

Commons : Louise Friederike von Württemberg  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

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  1. ↑ Fig. In Karin Annette Möller: From Meißen via Berlin to Fürstenberg - On the origin of the Schwerin Fürstenberg collection. , Porzellan aus Fürstenberg, catalog, Schwerin 2002, p. 20 ff. ISBN 3861060736
personal data
SURNAME Württemberg, Louise Friederike von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Mecklenburg, Louise Friederike zu; Mecklenburg, Luise Friederike too
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Princess of Württemberg, by marriage Duchess of Mecklenburg in Mecklenburg-Schwerin
DATE OF BIRTH February 3, 1722
PLACE OF BIRTH Stuttgart
DATE OF DEATH August 2, 1791
Place of death Hamburg