Maria Salomea Schweppenhäuser
Maria Salomea Schweppenhäuser (born November 29, 1755 in Rechtenbach, Palatinate ; † September 5, 1833 in Warsaw , Poland), daughter of the evangelical pastor Heinrich Wilhelm Schweppenhäuser from Oberotterbach and his wife Charlotte Philippine, born. Westermann, was a chambermaid at the court of Bad Bergzabern and Darmstadt . As the wife of Friedrich Hauke (1737-1810), she became the ancestor of the Battenberg family, which was re-established in 1851 for the descendants of Prince Alexander von Hessen-Darmstadt and his wife Julia Therese von Hauke .
After the death of her father, Maria Salomea became a chambermaid at the court of Bergzabern, widow seat of the Countess Palatine and Duchess of Palatinate-Zweibrücken Karoline . She was later employed at the court of Darmstadt by Karoline's daughter Princess Henriette Karoline , wife of the Hereditary Prince Ludwig of Hesse-Darmstadt. Maria Salomea married Friedrich Hauke, secretary of the Count von Brühl in 1773 . This count was called to Warsaw in 1782, Friedrich Hauke became a tax collector in Poland. Friedrich and Maria Salomea's son Hans Moritz Hauke was general of Russian troops in Poland from 1816 and was raised to hereditary nobility in 1829 as Count Hauke. He was murdered in 1830 during the Polish uprising, and his children and their grandmother ended up at the court of the Russian tsar in St. Petersburg. His daughter Julia Hauke married Prince Alexander of Hesse in 1851 in Breslau in what was then considered a morganatic marriage. Afterwards, the Grand Duke of Hesse, Alexander's brother, appointed his sister-in-law Countess von Battenberg, after an extinct Hessian family.
Maria Salomea is one of the ancestors of today's English royal family, the House of Windsor , as well as the Spanish royal family. A memorial plaque on the former rectory in Oberotterbach reminds of the connection between the village and this royal family. The rectory was built in 1732 under Johann Schweppenhäuser, the father of Heinrich Wilhelm Schweppenhäuser.
Former Protestant rectory in Oberotterbach, built in 1732
Memorial plaque to Pastor Johann Schweppenhäuser at the former rectory in Oberotterbach
literature
- Leo van de Pas: The Lineage and Ancestry of HRH Prince Charles, Prince of Wales, Edinburgh, 1977 (English)
- Bernt Engelmann: The climbers - how mansions and financial empires came about. Göttingen, 1989
Web links
- Unterdorfstrasse in Oberotterbach. A film by Stefanie Fink, SWR television in Rhineland-Palatinate, Landesschau Thursday, March 14, 2013 [1]
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Schweppenhäuser, Maria Salomea |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Hauke, Maria Salomea (married name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Mother-in-law of Prince Alexander of Hesse-Darmstadt |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 29, 1755 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Rechtenbach (Schweigen-Rechtenbach) |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 5, 1833 |
| Place of death | Warsaw |