Louise of Torments

Josiane Louise Bernhardine Desirèe von Qualen (* August 7, 1810 , † May 17, 1895 in Uetersen ) was a German noblewoman, benefactress and canon of the Uetersen monastery .

Life

Grave cross of Louise von Qualen in the "Jungfernfriedhof" of the Uetersen monastery

She was the daughter of Henning von Qualen, who was born on December 18, 1783 and died in Hamburg on January 4, 1825 . He married on December 28, 1809 with Christiane Auguste Countess Wedell-Wedellborg (Fühnen), who was born on March 11, 1789. That marriage was very unhappy and ended in divorce. The countess is said to have been or became insane and died after 1837.

At the age of three, on February 10, 1813, Louise was enrolled as a canoness. Your “matriculation money” of 125 Reichstalers = 156 Schilling Schleswig-Holsteinisch Courant was transferred as usual to the conventual women at the time and was distributed according to a special key. When she moved into the monastery could not be determined, but until her death she lived in a house of her own (conventual interior house) in the cloister courtyard that was acquired before her in 1858, which is now a listed building. The Uetersen Monastery was established as the heir to her wealth of 165,485 marks (around 1,611,962.10 euros), which was not insignificant at the time , including a mortgage on the Wulfshagen estate near Tüttendorf of 113,900 marks (1,123,054 euros) of a total of 113,500 marks (about 1,117,975 euros) were to be paid out. In her will she considered many people, relatives, conventual women of the monastery, servants and especially the poor. The individual grants ranged from 50,000 marks (about 492,500 euros) for the long-term Klosterhof Master August Göttsche the in recognition of his many years of teuen attachment for me and in the light of its weak face, which is a lifelong Amtirung will allow hardly him, and in consideration of the fact that he is not entitled to a pension , up to 50 marks (about 492.50 euros) for the person known by the name of Nähliese who raised the maintenance for himself and her children with simple sewing work. Even the hard-working little old woman who, into old age, swept and cleaned the streets with a bucket and broom in the pulling cart, she thought about it.

Louise von Qualen found her final resting place in the “maiden cemetery” of the monastery. Your historic grave is adorned with a simple grave cross and is a listed building.

literature

• Hans Ferdinand Bubbe : Heimatbuch Uetersen. Attempt of a chronicle of the city and the monastery Uetersen. Part I: A picture of the monastery and the life and goings-on in the monastery. Heydorn, Uetersen 1932.
• Hans Ferdinand Bubbe: Heimatbuch Uetersen. Attempt of a chronicle of the city and the monastery Uetersen. Part II: The noble women's monastery Uetersen. Heydorn, Uetersen 1932.
• Elsa Plath-Langheinrich : The monastery at the Uetersten End. Heydorns, Ietersen 2008, ISBN 978-3-934816-04-6 .
• Elsa Plath-Langheinrich: Uetersen Monastery in Holstein. Wachholtz, 2009.
• Hans-Hellmuth Qualen : History of the family torments and of torments. Mühlau, Kiel 1987.
• List of cultural monuments in Schleswig-Holstein (PDF; approx. 526 kB)
• List of listed monuments of the city of Uetersen. 2011.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Hans Hellmuth torments: History of the family torments and of torments. Mühlau, Kiel 1978, page 118.
2. ^ Uetersen monastery archive. B 36, p. 165.
3. ↑ Ernst Brütt, Gerhard Sheep Stone: Uetersen and its inhabitants in the past 150 years. Heydorn, Uetersen 1995, page 32.
4. ^ Hartwig Beseler: Art-Topography Schleswig-Holstein. Wachholz, Neumünster 1979, page 561.
5. ^ Uetersen monastery archive. B 47.
6. ^ Heinrich Brauer, Wolfgang Scheffler, Hans Weber: The art monuments of the province of Schleswig-Holstein in the Pinneberg district. German Art Publishing House, Berlin 1939.
7. ^ Wolfgang Teuchert , Arnold Lühning: The art monuments of the state of Schleswig-Holstein in the Pinneberg district. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Berlin 1961, page 325.