Luise of Anhalt-Bernburg
Wilhelmine Luise von Anhalt-Bernburg (born October 30, 1799 in Ballenstedt , † December 9, 1882 at Eller Castle in Eller near Düsseldorf ) was a princess of Anhalt-Bernburg and, by marriage, Princess of Prussia . After her marriage she sat, as usual with the Hohenzollern in the 19th century, life for her husband Princess Frederick and Princess Friedrich of Prussia address.
Life
Luise came as the second child of Prince Alexis von Anhalt-Bernburg (1767–1834) and Princess Friederike (1768–1839), daughter of Landgrave Wilhelm IX. from Hessen-Kassel , at Ballenstedt Castle. She was baptized in the name of Wilhelmine Louise . Her name was alternately spelled Louise or Luise until the German form of the name had prevailed. At the Ballenstedter Hof, Luise was in contact with the painter Caroline Bardua and her sister Wilhelmine, and the princess also developed into a talented draftsman herself.
Luise married Prince Friedrich of Prussia (1794–1863), a nephew of King Friedrich Wilhelm III , on November 21, 1817 at her father's castle in Ballenstedt . whom she had met at court in Dessau . They initially lived in Berlin , where their first son Alexander was born in 1820 . With her husband, who as a division commander for Dusseldorf since 1821 on the local had been ordered, lived Luise Schloss Jägerhof and in summer on Benrath Palace or Castle Rheinstein can expand whose ruins Prince Frederick purchased in 1823 and had to 1827th The second son Georg was born in Düsseldorf in 1826. The couple promoted the arts and had a significant influence on the cultural life of Düsseldorf. In the royal seat, Princess Luise received drawing and painting lessons from Wilhelm Kaulbach , Theodor Hildebrandt , Caspar Scheuren and Friedrich Heunert .
Between 1834 and 1835 Princess Luise had the Klemenskirche in Trechtingshausen built below Rheinstein Castle from her private funds . In 1837 she became protector of the newly founded "Higher Private School for Protestant Girls" in Düsseldorf, which was named Luisenschule in her honor (today Luisen-Gymnasium ) and opened on October 30, 1837 on her birthday. The same year she was in memory of her late father in 1834 in Selketal the Alexiuskreuz set. In 1838 she donated the altar painting "Christ Carrying the Cross", which she had painted in oil to the old chapel in Mägdesprung and which she had copied in the style of the Nazarenes after a picture by Ernst Deger . It is now in the Evangelical St. Peter's Chapel in Alexisbad .
In 1843 she acquired Eller Castle near Düsseldorf, to which she withdrew in order to devote herself to her beloved painting, far away from Düsseldorf's representative business. Because of the revolution of 1848 , Prince Friedrich and his family were called back to Berlin. When Luise returned to Düsseldorf for a music festival in the summer of 1855, a chronic nervous disease prevented her from returning to Berlin, and she stayed with a small court at Eller Castle until her death. Her progressive mental illness, which she had inherited from her mother and which also affected her brother Duke Alexander Carl as well as her son Alexander, was treated with great discretion. Luise was one of the most prominent patients of the homeopathic doctor Samuel Hahnemann , with whom she exchanged extensive letters. Her husband stayed in Berlin, but came to visit every year to celebrate their joint birthday in Eller. As often as she could, the Evangelical Reformed Christian attended the service in the Reformed village church of Urdenbach , whose congregation she supported financially.
In July 1863, Luise's husband Prince Friedrich died and only three weeks later her only brother, Duke Alexander Carl von Anhalt-Bernburg. Since then, Luise saw herself as the last member of the Bernburg family and had been fighting for years with Duke Leopold von Anhalt over the allodial inheritance . After her death at Eller Castle in 1882, she was buried next to her husband in the crypt of the Rheinstein Castle chapel.
Honors
According to her, the Luis street in Dusseldorf, who in 1823 built are Luis temple in Alexisbad which Luisenklippe in Selketal that Luisentor and Luis Place in Hamburg Demmin named.
The Düsseldorf City Museum is in possession of several of her drawings and watercolors, which it presented in an exhibition from March to April 1998 and which were then shown in the Roman Baths in Potsdam from July to August 1999 .
progeny
Luise had two sons from her marriage:
- Alexander (1820–1896) remained unmarried and without descendants
- Georg (1826–1902), remained unmarried and without descendants
literature
- Margitta Dobrileit: Wilhelmine Luise of Prussia (1799–1882). A princess between melancholy and cheerfulness , Benrath Palace and Park Foundation, Düsseldorf 2013, ISBN 978-3-935559-17-1
- Bettina Fügemann: Princess Wilhelmine Luise of Anhalt-Bernburg (1799–1882). Biographical Sketches 1 , Anhalt Edition, Dessau 2009, ISBN 978-3-936383-17-1
- Inge Christine Heinz: "Send funds, send advice!" Princess Luise of Prussia as a patient of Samuel Hahnemann from 1829 to 1835 . KVC Verlag, Essen 2011. (Sources and studies on the history of homeopathy 15), ISBN 978-3-86864-007-6
- Antje Kahnt: Düsseldorf's strong women - 30 portraits Droste, Düsseldorf 2016, ISBN 978-3-7700-1577-1 , pp. 35–40.
- A. Vollert (Ed.): Blätter für Rechtspflege in Thüringen and Anhalt , Volume 16, p. 169 ff., Jena 1869
- Inge Zacher: Wilhelmine Luise von Preußen (1799–1882) - a princely painter of the 19th century . Catalog for the exhibition in the Stadtmuseum Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf 1998
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Christian von Stramburg , Anton Joseph Weidenbach : Memorable and useful Rhenish Antiquarius , Dept. 2, Volume 9, Koblenz 1860, p 234;. Name form "Louise"
- ^ Samuel Hahnemann, Monika Papsch: Die Krankenjournale: Krankenjournal D 38 , Volume 38, P. 49, Karl F. Haug Verlag, Stuttgart, 2007
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Luise of Anhalt-Bernburg |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Wilhelmine Luise of Anhalt-Bernburg |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Princess of Prussia |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 30, 1799 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Ballenstedt |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 9, 1882 |
| Place of death | Eller near Düsseldorf |