Maria Luise Albertine zu Leiningen-Dagsburg-Falkenburg

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Marie Luise Albertine of Hessen-Darmstadt on a painting around 1753
Princess George (around 1790)

Maria Luise Albertine von Leiningen-Dagsburg-Falkenburg (born March 16, 1729 in Heidesheim (Palatinate) , † March 11, 1818 in Neustrelitz ); called Princess George , was heiress of the Broich rule and by marriage was Princess of Hessen-Darmstadt. She was the grandmother and educator of the later Prussian Queen Luise .

Life

Maria Luise Albertine was born at Heidesheim Castle as the daughter of Count Christian Karl Reinhard von Leiningen-Dagsburg (1695–1766) and his wife, Countess Katharina Polyxena von Solms-Rödelheim (1702–1765). When her father died, she inherited the Broich estate and began the restoration and expansion of Broich Castle with the builder Nicolas de Pigage . In 1806 the rule was dissolved by Napoleon and annexed by Prussia in 1815.

She married Prince Georg Wilhelm of Hessen-Darmstadt , the brother of the ruling Landgrave Ludwig IX , on March 16, 1748 in Heidesheim . from Hessen-Darmstadt . Since Louis IX. stayed almost exclusively in Pirmasens , after the death of his wife in 1774 she was responsible for representing the country in the residence in Darmstadt .

Her daughters Friederike and Charlotte had died in childbirth as the first and second wives of Prince Karl von Mecklenburg-Strelitz . Karl then ended his service as governor in Hanover and moved with the children to his mother-in-law in Darmstadt. Princess George had been widowed since 1782 and took on the task of raising and caring for the children.

Only Charlotte did not take part in this move. At the age of 16 she was married to the Duke of Saxony-Hildburghausen. The father and his two sons often stayed with his eldest daughter in Hildburghausen and moved there completely in 1787 after he had become president of the imperial debit commission there. So Maria Luise took care of Luise and her sisters Therese and Friederike with down-to-earth upbringing methods , to whom she offered a secure and largely informal home in Darmstadt's “Old Palace” on the market.

In 1790 she traveled with Luise, Friederike and Georg to the coronation of Leopold II in Frankfurt am Main and lived here with Catharina Elisabeth Goethe . An educational trip to Holland followed in 1791. In 1792 she fled with the children from the approaching French army from Darmstadt to Hildburghausen to her granddaughter Charlotte, where she stayed until March 1793. On the return journey to Darmstadt, she traveled via Frankfurt, where a first meeting between Luise and her future husband Friedrich Wilhelm had been arranged. In 1793 she accompanied Luise and Friederike to their wedding in Berlin. She spent the last years of her life at the court of her son-in-law, Karl II., In Neustrelitz and found her final resting place in the princely crypt of the House of Mecklenburg-Strelitz in Mirow .

Maria Luise is described as a wonderful person, warm-hearted, always happy and basically speaking the Palatinate dialect. As a surrogate mother, she passed on the closeness to the citizens and warmth to her granddaughters during the formative years.

Prince Georg Wilhelm of Hessen-Darmstadt with his family

progeny

literature

  • Claudia von Gélieu : The educator of Queen Luise. Salomé de Gélieu . With the assistance of Christian von Gélieu. Pustet, Regensburg 2007. ISBN 978-3-7917-2043-2 .
  • Carsten Peter Thiede, Eckhard G. Franz [Ed.]: Years with Luise von Mecklenburg-Strelitz. From notes and letters of Salome von Gelieu (1742–1822). In: Archive for Hessian History and Archeology. NF ISSN  0066-636X , 43 : 79-160 (1985).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Karin Feuerstein-Praßer: The Prussian Queens (= series Piper 3814). Unabridged paperback edition, 5th edition. Piper, Munich 2005, ISBN 3-492-23814-9 , p. 252.
  2. ↑ Gerd Fesser: A born queen. In: zeit.de. January 24, 1992, accessed December 8, 2014 .
personal data
SURNAME Leiningen-Dagsburg-Falkenburg, Maria Luise Albertine to
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Princess George
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Grandmother of the Prussian Queen Luise
DATE OF BIRTH March 16, 1729
PLACE OF BIRTH Heidesheim
DATE OF DEATH March 11, 1818
Place of death Neustrelitz