Louise von Plessen
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Louise von Plessen , b. von Berkentin (born April 26, 1725 in Vienna , † September 14, 1799 in Celle ) was chief stewardess at the Danish court of King Christian VII and Caroline Mathilde . She was close to the opposition circles at the Danish court and left a correspondence with Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock .
Live and act
Louise von Plessen was the daughter of the Danish ambassador Christian August von Berkentin and his wife Susanne Margretha von Boineburg zu Honstein. As a young girl she was the lady-in-waiting of Queen Sophie of Denmark.
In 1744 she married the chamberlain Christian Siegfried von Plessen (1716–1755); the marriage remained childless. After the untimely death of her husband, she lived with her father again and during this time she ran an educational institution for young girls in Christianshavn . After her father died in 1758, she leased the family palace to Carl von Schimmelmann , soon sold it entirely to him and moved to an estate near Kokkedal on Zealand .
Through friendly connections with the Minister Johann Hartwig Ernst Graf von Bernstorff and the theologian Johann Andreas Cramer in the 1750s, she came into contact with Friedrich Klopstock and his wife Meta by letter . Klopstock visited Louise von Plessen in Kokkedal after Meta's death in 1758.
In 1766, after an application, Louise von Plessen received the position of chief stewardess to Christian VII and his 15-year-old wife Caroline Mathilde in Copenhagen. Regarding the extremely difficult marriage of the royal couple, she is certified to have a strict attitude that earned her the rejection on the part of the king. As a result, she became a coveted person among the dissatisfied members of court society and was also considered politically ambitious. At the end of February 1768, after the birth of the heir to the throne, later Frederick VI. , she was dismissed without notice by King Christian VII. Then Louise von Plessen went to Celle, where she lived until her death in 1799. Her successor was Margrethe von Lühe, sister of the royal favorite Conrad Holck .
Caroline Mathilde was banished from Denmark due to her affair with Count Johann Friedrich Struensee and after his execution in 1772 and moved to her brother Georg III's. Celle Castle, owned by Great Britain and Ireland . Louise von Plessen moved in with her and stayed with her until Caroline Mathilde's early death in 1775.
Louise von Plessen was buried in the Berkentin family chapel in Lübeck Cathedral . Since the destruction of the chapel by the air raid on Lübeck on March 29, 1942 , its sandstone sarcophagus has been located in the south-easternmost ambulatory chapel of the cathedral together with those of her parents and grandparents.
literature
- Helmut Riege, Rainer Schmidt (eds.): Klopstock. Letters 1753–1758 . De Gruyter, Berlin 1988. ISBN 978-3110113617
- Carolin Philipps: Queen Caroline Mathilde of Denmark. The mistress of the personal physician . Piper, Munich 2005 ISBN 3-492-24369-X
Individual evidence
- ↑ Klopstock. Letters 1753-1758 (1988), p. 362
- ^ Carolin Philipps: Queen Caroline Mathilde of Denmark (2005), pp. 56–61.
- ↑ See Johannes Baltzer , Friedrich Bruns: The architectural and art monuments of the Free and Hanseatic City of Lübeck. Issued by the building authorities. Volume III: Church of Old Lübeck. Dom. Jakobikirche. Aegidia Church. Verlag von Bernhard Nöhring, Lübeck 1920, pp. 9–304 Unchanged reprint 2001: ISBN 3-89557-167-9 , p. 97
Web links
- Biography in Klopstock. Letters 1753-1758 ; P. 361f.
- Dansk kvindebiografisk leksikon : biography (Danish)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Plessen, Louise von |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Chief Chamberlain in Copenhagen |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 26, 1725 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Vienna |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 14, 1799 |
| Place of death | Celle |