Louise von Lengefeld

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Louise von Lengefeld, chalk drawing, around 1820

Louise von Lengefeld (born Luise Juliane Eleonore Frederike von Wurmb ; * July 27, 1743 in Wolkramshausen , † December 11, 1823 in Rudolstadt ) was court master of the princes of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt at the residential palace in Heidecksburg . She is the mother of Charlotte von Lengefeld , who later became Friedrich Schiller's wife , and the poet Caroline von Wolhaben .

Life

Schiller House in Rudolstadt

On October 3, 1761, the half-orphan Louise Juliane Eleonore Friederike von Wurmb married at the age of 18, the head forester and master of Reschwitz and Pippelsdorf Carl Christoph von Lengefeld (* May 15, 1715, † October 3, 1775). The daughters Caroline (born February 3, 1763) and Charlotte (born November 22, 1766), who later became the wife of Friedrich Schiller , emerged from the marriage. In 1740 Carl Christoph von Lengefeld became head forest master. In 1744 he suffered a stroke . Despite permanent paralysis of his right arm and leg, he continued to do duty. Louise von Lengefeld's marriage was a happy one. Until the death of Carl Christoph von Lengefeld, the family lived in the Heisenhof in the immediate vicinity of the Rudolstädter Stadtkirche and in 1775 they moved to the later so-called Beulwitzsche Haus (since 2009 a museum as Schillerhaus ). After the death of her husband, she raised her daughters as a single mother. The von Lengefeld family was visited here by many prominent intellectuals in Rudolstadt, including Johann Gottfried Herder , Charlotte von Stein , Johann Gottlieb Fichte as well as Alexander and Wilhelm von Humboldt .

After the death of her husband in 1775 - Carl Christoph von Lengefeld died of the long-term effects of his stroke - Louise von Lengefeld, who was inexperienced in economic matters, had to take over the family's business. The reserves were quickly used up. The family ran into material difficulties. When the medium-sized Friedrich Wilhelm Ludwig von Beulwitz asked for the hand of her eldest daughter Caroline, Louise von Lengefeld immediately consented to the marriage. At the court of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt she became court master and court educator in 1789. Later she was appointed chief steward. She prepared her daughter Charlotte early on for the role of a future Weimar lady-in-waiting .

Your cookbook 150 useful recipes. The cookbook by Schiller's Chère-mère, Louise von Lengefeld was reissued in 1997 by the German Schiller Society with a foreword by Norbert Oellers and is currently still available. It contains, among other things, a recipe for a lentil soup and for making sweet pies .

"If you want to know more about what the German intellectual nobility dined, you can rummage through the handwritten recipe collections of Goethe's grandmother Anna Maria Lindheimer or the Schillermuse Louise von Lengefeld."

- Cultural history of German cuisine

Louise von Lengefeld's original cookbook is part of the Schiller estate in the German Literature Archive in Marbach . It is on loan in a permanent exhibition in the Schillerhaus Rudolstadt . The cookbook is intensively marketed to tourists in Thuringia : In the restaurant of the Schillerhaus Rudolstadt, dishes based on recipes by Louise von Lengefeld are offered. The city of Weimar offers a “Schiller menu” with four courses from Louise von Lengefeld's cookbook as a touristic experience tour.

Schiller as a son-in-law

Friedrich Schiller, portrayed by Johann Friedrich August Tischbein in 1805/06

The completely destitute Friedrich Schiller appeared in Rudolstadt in December 1787 in tow of Wilhelm von Wolzogens, a relative of the von Lengefeld family. At first, Louise von Lengefeld viewed the rapidly growing and intimate relationship between Schiller and the two daughters with great suspicion. In particular, the loss of her daughters' nobility privileges through a possible connection with Schiller initially made her reluctant. Schiller thought about a three-way relationship , but Louise von Lengefeld and daughter Charlotte couldn't warm to it in any way. Due to Schiller's precarious financial situation and the poet's emotional situation towards the two sisters, which was not clearly clarified even after Schiller's engagement to Charlotte in August 1789, Louise von Lengefeld's relationship with him initially remained tense.

Louise von Lengefeld only found out about her daughter Charlotte's engagement in December 1789, four months after the engagement. After Schiller became a professor in Jena and his financial circumstances improved as a councilor, he wrote to Louise von Lengefeld in December 1789 to solicit the hand of her daughter Charlotte. Louise von Lengefeld answered Schiller's letter kindly and consented to the marriage on December 22nd, 1789. She stopped the annual income of Schiller and her daughter Charlotte instead of a dowry of 150 dollars annually; Together with Duke Carl August , who had previously granted Schiller 200 thalers a year from his private box, she ensured the material foundation of the marriage between Friedrich Schiller and Charlotte von Lengefeld. In her answer to Schiller, she wrote: "Yes, I want to give you the best and dearest thing I have to give, my good Lottchen ..." Louise von Lengefeld had, "apparently without hesitation", in her daughter Charlotte's inappropriate marriage Schiller probably also consented because her daughter Caroline's convenience toe had already failed and she wanted to spare her younger daughter Charlotte from this experience.

When Schiller bought the house on the Esplanade (today: Schillerstraße) in Weimar in March 1802, but could not afford the purchase price of 4,200 thalers, Louise von Lengefeld loaned Schiller 600 Reichstaler (with the then usual 4% interest) to help Schiller buy the house to enable.

Schiller's letters to Louise von Lengefeld are preserved in the Goethe and Schiller Archives in Weimar.

Louise von Lengefeld is currently also - like Friedrich Schiller - marketed for tourism. The city of Rudolstadt offers city tours and adventure tours with the actress Verena Blankenburg as "Louise von Lengefeld" under the motto of Schiller's woman. A mother-in-law tells .

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Gunter Linke: Dear Carl Christoph von Lengefeld. In: Specialized prose research - Crossing borders. Volume 10, 2014, p. 309 f.
  2. ^ Roland Beyer: Carl Christoph von Lengefeld (1715–1775), forester and visionary of the 18th century. Time travel and role play. In: Specialized prose research - Crossing borders. Volume 10, 2014, pp. 311-314.
  3. ^ Peter-André Alt: Schiller. Life-work-time ... , p. 633
  4. ↑ a b Peter-André Alt: Schiller. Life-work-time ... , p. 635
  5. ↑ Peter Peter: Cultural History of German Cuisine , p. 118
  6. ↑ Friedrich von Schiller - Directory of the Schiller estate ( Memento of the original from October 6, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. ; Official website of the German Literature Archive Marbach; As of 1997 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.dla-marbach.de
  7. ^ Rudolstadt: Neues Museum Schillerhaus ( Memento from October 6, 2013 in the Internet Archive ), exhibition report; Retrieved September 16, 2013
  8. ^ Peter-André Alt: Schiller. Life-work-time ... , p. 642
  9. ↑ a b Kurt Wölfel: Friedrich Schiller , p. 77
  10. ↑ Volker C. Dörr: Friedrich Schiller , p. 31f.
  11. ↑ a b Peter-André Alt: Schiller. Life-work-time ... . P. 645
  12. ^ Peter-André Alt: Schiller. Life-work-time ... , p. 646
  13. ↑ Marriage in Wenigenjena , schiller-biographie.de, accessed on September 16, 2013.
  14. ↑ Schillerhaus Rudolstadt (official website); Retrieved September 16, 2013
  15. ↑ C. Pilling; D. Schilling; M. Springer: Friedrich Schiller , p. 47 f.
  16. ↑ Volker C. Dörr: Friedrich Schiller , Suhrkamp Verlag 2005, ISBN 3-518-18202-1 , p. 52
  17. ↑ Schiller's wife. A mother-in-law tells the official website of the city of Rudolstadt; last accessed on September 16, 2013
personal data
SURNAME Lengefeld, Louise von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lengefeld, Louise Juliane Eleonore Friederike (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Hofmeisterin at the court of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt and mother-in-law of Friedrich Schiller
DATE OF BIRTH July 27, 1743
PLACE OF BIRTH Wolkramshausen
DATE OF DEATH December 11, 1823
Place of death Rudolstadt