Louise Henriette von Mangoldt

Louise Henriette von Mangoldt (born November 28, 1823 in Pegau near Leipzig , † March 26, 1865 in Tharandt ) was a German educator and namesake of the Luisenstift grammar school in Radebeul-Niederlößnitz .

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Louise von Mangoldt's father was stationed as a lieutenant in a cavalry regiment in Leipzig. He was later transferred to Dresden with the rank of Rittmeister and then to Freiberg , where Louise von Mangoldt spent her youth. She attended the institute of a Mrs. Carry from London and received a well-founded, especially foreign language training.

After her father's death in 1842, Louise von Mangoldt and her mother moved to Tharandt. Here they joined the Evangelical Lutheran Brethren Congregation.

In 1853 Louise von Mangoldt founded a handicraft school in Tharandt. In 1856 she was visiting the daughter's school in Waldenburg, which she was to take over. At the request of the Tharandt, however, she returned and opened a girls' school on October 12, 1857. Her skills in dealing with children and her Christian social commitment were reflected in the school, which was founded mainly for girls from poor families. In addition to doing housework ( knitting , sewing, etc.), there were Bible lessons, singing and gymnastics. The school was attended by both internal and external parties and expanded quickly:

• 1860: 20 students (11 internal / 9 external)
• 1861: 31 students (14 internal / 17 external)
• 1862: 41 students (23 internal / 18 external)
• 1863: 45 students (24 internal / 21 external)
• 1864: 50 students (24 internal / 26 external)

Mangoldt sought to educate the young girls to become simple Christians, with "thorough training in the elementary subjects, in art and languages".

In 1860 they bought their own house; In 1863 she asked a deaconess for help, and Sister Lydia Fröhlich came to Tharandt. When several schoolgirls fell ill with measles in 1865 and a girl died of pneumonia , von Mangoldt was probably also infected . Her constitution, which had always been weak, was unable to resist the disease. Mangoldt died on March 26, 1865. She was buried in the Tharandt cemetery.

Shortly before her death she handed over the management to Countess Julie Vitzthum, after which it was renamed Louisenstift. Mangoldt determined in his will that her school should be handed over to the Dresden Diakonissenanstalt . In 1870 the Louisenstift was relocated to Niederlößnitz, where it is now run as the Luisenstift grammar school . The deaconess Lydia Fröhlich subsequently became superior in the Bethesda deaconess institution near the monastery .

literature

• Luisenstift. In: Frank Andert (Red.): Stadtlexikon Radebeul . Historical manual for the Loessnitz . Published by the Radebeul City Archives. 2nd, slightly changed edition. City archive, Radebeul 2006, ISBN 3-938460-05-9 , p. 127 .
• G. Molwitz: Anniversary report of the Evangelical Lutheran Diakonissenanstalt in Dresden. Dresden 1894.