Louise Weyland

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Louise Weyland's tomb in Mannheim, donated by King Ludwig I of Bavaria

Louise Weyland ; Birth name Louisa Sibylla Magdalena Aulber (born July 25, 1758 in Kutzenhausen , Alsace ; † April 17, 1837 in Mannheim ) was the Bavarian court advisor and educator of the children of King Maximilian I Joseph , especially his son Ludwig I.

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Louise Weyland was born as the daughter of the Chamber Councilor Johann Franz Aulber and his wife Katharina Margareta. Rosenstiel, born in Kutzenhausen in Alsace, married the doctor and Goethe friend Friedrich Leopold Weyland from Buchsweiler in Alsace in 1781 , but his family came from Hesse. The entire area around Buchsweiler and Kutzenhausen belonged to the County of Hanau-Lichtenberg at the time , which had inherited to the Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt . Friedrich Leopold Weyland worked a. a. as a doctor in Frankfurt am Main and in Buchsweiler. He had the title of landgrave councilor, but died in 1785.

Louise Weyland herself stated that Princess Auguste Wilhelmine of Hessen-Darmstadt , who married the later Bavarian King Maximilian I Joseph in 1785, had been prepared for marriage by her mother.

When Maximilian Joseph and Auguste Wilhelmine were expecting their first child, later King Ludwig I, in 1786, the widowed Louise Weyland was hired as a nanny and educator. Until the age of 7, she raised Ludwig I practically alone and became his closest confidante. She also looked after the princely couple's four other children. The family initially lived in Strasbourg , from where they fled to Darmstadt and finally to Mannheim before the events of the French Revolution . Duchess Auguste Wilhelmine died in 1793 in Schloss Rohrbach near Heidelberg , to pulmonary tuberculosis . Her widower, Duke Maximilian Joseph, married Princess Karoline Friederike Wilhelmine von Baden , with whom he had eight other children, the older of whom were also looked after by Louise Weyland. Despite her Lutheran denomination, she worked closely with the religious educator of the princely children, Father Joseph Anton Sambuga (1752–1815) and the Catholic court master Joseph von Kirschbaum (1758–1848).

Duke Maximilian Joseph inherited the Electorate of Bavaria in 1799 , became elector and moved to Munich , where the family, Louise Weyland, Joseph Sambuga and Joseph von Kirschbaum followed. In 1806 the Elector became King of Bavaria and gave House L 2, 3 in Mannheim to Hofratin Weyland, to which she soon retired. Here she spent her old age and died there in 1837.

Burial motto of King Ludwig I.

Especially the later King Ludwig I of Bavaria regarded Louise Weyland as mother-like, since he had a stepmother from the age of seven, but Weyland was still employed by his real mother, who also maintained a close relationship with her.

He let u. a. In 1827 he made his portrait for her by the painter Georg von Dillis , the retired court councilor often visited Mannheim and donated a tomb to her that has been preserved in the main cemetery in Mannheim . The design comes from Friedrich von Gärtner , the execution was carried out by the Bamberg sculptor Adam Joseph Schäfer (1798–1871). In addition to the remark "... with motherly love she nursed the beginning of King Ludwig I in his childhood," the monarch had the self-composed saying put on it:

“WEYLAND NEVER BECOMES WEILAND FOR ME, IN THE PRESENT YOU ALWAYS STAY WITH ME. AS THE LOVE FOR YOU, AS THE SORRY FOR YOU. "

- "The cemeteries in Mannheim" , Südwestdeutsche Verlagsanstalt Mannheim, 1992, page 82

A similar grave monument was later built by King Ludwig II of his own tutor Sybilla von Leonrod in Augsburg .

The brother-in-law of Louise Weyland (brother of her husband, who died young) was Philipp Christian Weyland (1765–1843), most recently President of the Land of Saxony-Weimar-Eisenach .

literature

  • "Die Friedhöfe in Mannheim" , Südwestdeutsche Verlagsanstalt Mannheim, 1992, page 82
  • Adalbert Prince of Bavaria : "Max I. Joseph von Bayern" , Bruckmann Verlag, Munich, 1957, various positions
  • Egon Caesar Conte Corti : “Ludwig I of Bavaria” , Bruckmann Verlag, Munich, 1937

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ulrike Leuschner: "Briefwechsel Johann Heinrich Merck" , Volume 1, Page 638, Wallstein Verlag, 2007, ISBN 3835301055 Scan from the source, with data on the father
  2. ↑ Marie Joseph Bopp: "The Protestant clergy and theologians in Alsace and Lorraine from the Reformation to the present" , volumes 1–3, page 32; Excerpt from the source on the mother's name
  3. ^ BG Teubner: "Journal for German Lessons" , Volume 9, 1895, page 366 excerpt from the source
  4. ^ Adalbert Prince of Bavaria : "Max I. Joseph von Bayern" , Bruckmann Verlag, Munich, 1957, page 169
  5. ^ "The cemeteries in Mannheim" , Südwestdeutsche Verlagsanstalt Mannheim, 1992, page 82
  6. ↑ "Correspondence between Ludwig I. von Bayern and Georg von Dillis 1807-1841" , Beck Verlag, 1966, page 653 excerpt from the source
  7. ^ "Bayerische National-Zeitung, magazine for politics, science and art" , 5th year, 1st half, page 294, Munich 1838 Scan from the source
  8. ^ "Münchner Tageblatt" , No. 126, of May 7, 1838, page 526 of the year; Scan from the source
  9. ^ Biographical website on Philipp Christian Weyland
personal data
SURNAME Weyland, Louise
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Bavarian court councilor, educator of King Ludwig I of Bavaria and his siblings
DATE OF BIRTH July 25, 1758
PLACE OF BIRTH Kutzenhausen (Bas-Rhin)
DATE OF DEATH April 17, 1837
Place of death Mannheim