Maria Neide

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Maria Christiana envy (born Andreas, * 2. October 1780 in Wettin ; † 24. October 1831 in Magdeburg ) was one for their efforts against cholera - epidemic became known nurse.

Life

Neide married the doctor and later Magdeburg city ​​physician Friedrich August Neide in 1805 . The marriage had seven children.

Maria Neide was known for her social commitment. In 1831 a cholera epidemic broke out in Magdeburg. Maria Neide took over the management and organization of 19 volunteer nurses. In the house she lives in at Junkerstrasse 12, she opened a collection point for bed linen and clothes.

Maria Neide succumbed to this cholera epidemic herself.

Commemoration

Grave cross in the north park

A grave cross, which still exists today, was erected for them on the city's cemetery at that time and today's north park . It bears the inscription: " She helped where there was need / The fallen asleep The grateful city ". The city of Magdeburg named a street in her honor as Maria-Neide-Straße .

literature

  • Maria Neide. In: Guido Heinrich, Gunter Schandera (ed.): Magdeburg Biographical Lexicon 19th and 20th centuries. Biographical lexicon for the state capital Magdeburg and the districts of Bördekreis, Jerichower Land, Ohrekreis and Schönebeck. Scriptum, Magdeburg 2002, ISBN 3-933046-49-1 .
  • Alexander Bastian: Neide, Maria Christiana, b. Andreas. In: Eva Labouvie (Ed.): Women in Saxony-Anhalt, Vol. 2: A biographical-bibliographical lexicon from the 19th century to 1945. Böhlau, Cologne et al. 2019, ISBN 978-3-412-51145-6 , p. 342-343.

Individual evidence

  1. Genealogical Handbook of Bürgerlicher Familien, Volume 17, 1910, p. 415