Maria Ursula Kolb von Wartenberg

Freiin Maria Ursula Kolb von Wartenberg (also: Ursula Maria ; * July 31, 1618 ; † July 29, 1674 ) was the educator of Liselotte von der Pfalz and is often mentioned in her famous letters.

Life

origin

Johann Casimir I. Kolb von Wartenberg (1584–1661), Palatinate-Simmerian Privy Councilor and governor, father a. a. Maria Ursula Kolb von Wartenberg and Count Johann Casimir II. Kolb von Wartenberg

Maria Ursula piston from Wartenberg came from the very old and in the Palatinate distinguished family of piston von Wartenberg . Her father, Baron Johann Casimir I. Kolb von Wartenberg (1584–1661), was in his younger years commander of the Guard of the Grand Duke of Tuscany . Returning to the Palatinate, he became a councilor and chamberlain of the Palatinate in 1608 and became a loyal companion of Elector Friedrich V , to whom he was often used on diplomatic missions. At the same time he was bailiff in Stromberg around 1613 and senior bailiff (Vogt) von Bretten in 1620 . He was married since 1615 to Ursula von Stadion (1595-1633), her mother. 1620–1623, in the Thirty Years' War , the father held the rank of General Commissioner for the armies in the Electoral Palatinate and of an Electoral Palatinate Privy Council . In 1629 he was appointed governor of Zweibrücken in the Electoral Palatinate . From 1655 until his death he was the governor of Count Palatine Marie Eleonore von Simmern in Kaiserslautern.

After the mother's death, the father married Judith von Flersheim († 1644) in 1635 , who was the birth mother of her younger half-brother, the ambitious and notorious Count Johann Casimir II. Kolb von Wartenberg (1643–1712), the kingdom's first prime minister Prussia. Widowed again since 1644, the father married Maria Clara († 1690), also from the von Flersheim family, in 1647, who eventually outlived him by about 29 years.

Working as court master of the Electoral Palatinate

Heidelberg 1670, by Gerrit Berckheyde

Since the father was an able and loyal companion of the Palatinate House and his daughter was apparently considered worthy to become the tutor of the granddaughter of the Elector and "Winter King" Friedrich V (1596–1632), Maria Ursula was responsible for at the Palatine court the upbringing of a German princely daughter of the early modern period , Liselotte von der Pfalz (1652–1722). On December 1, 1663 feisty 45-year-old became the governess of the princess bestallt of it in the following years in Heidelberg Castle taught. Her duties included getting the princess to read the Bible, in German and French, and overseeing all foreign language acquisition (French, Italian and English). Ursula Kolb von Wartenberg was also responsible for singing lessons and learning how to use keyboard instruments, for which the elector had specially printed instructions.

When the Electoral Palatinate princess was married to the brother of the "Sun King" Louis XIV. , Duke Philip I of Orléans (1640–1701), who was dubbed "Monsieur" in France in 1671 , Ursula Kolb von Wartenberg had the 18-year-old at the accompanied the French court and had returned to Germany in January 1672. In Liselotte's anecdotal letters she usually calls her Preceptor “ Jungfer Kolb”, “Die Kolbin” or “Mme (Madame) de Wartenberg”.

Kolbenhof in Kaiserslautern

Returned to the Palatinate, Ursula piston resided von Wartenberg a few more years in the noble Kolbenhof in the piston road to Kaiserslautern , where already her grandfather Konrad VII. Kolb von Wartenberg (1558-1602) Bailiff and her father governor had been, and died on 29. July 1674, two days before her 66th birthday. The property came from her stepmother Judith von Flersheim, who died in 1644, the second stepmother Maria Clara von Flersheim only died in 1690. Ursula's father Johann Kasimir I inherited the house as the son-in-law of the last Flersheimer, hence Kolbenhof. The Burgmannensitz of the Flersheimers was built in the Renaissance style as early as 1585 and the Flersheim coat of arms could be recognized on the building until the 1960s, which is why the aristocratic residence was also called "Flersheimerhof". The Aschbach farm (Aschbacherhof), which had been separated from the Wilenstein rulership , was also inherited by Judith von Flersheim's heir, the wife of Ursula's father who died early. This is how this part of the Flersheim property came to the Kolb von Wartenberg.

Anecdote with the bacon salad

Liselotte von der Pfalz wrote from France in 1700: “In my younger years I often cheated on the good maid Kolb about eating at night, but we didn't eat delicate things like chocolate, coffee and tea, we ate good ones Coleslaw with bacon.

I remember that one time a door was changed in my room in Heidelberg and that my bed and Kolbin were put in the room so that it was in front of my maid's room. The Kolbin had forbidden me to go to the maiden's room at night; I promised not to cross the threshold, she should just go to bed, I couldn't sleep yet, I wanted to look at the stars a little more at the window. The woman didn't want to trust me, she always stayed in her nightcloth; I said she whined for me to go to bed and open the curtain so she could see me. She did. As soon as she was in bed, the maids opened her door and put the plate with the bacon salad on the threshold.

I pretended to drop my handkerchief, prettily open the plate with it, and went straight to the window. No sooner had I swallowed three good mouthfuls than suddenly the piece started shooting , as it was on the balcony in front of my window, because a fire had started in the city. The Kolbin, fearing the fire unheard of, jumps out of bed; I, for fear of being caught, throw my napkin and the silver plate with lettuce out of the window, so I had nothing left to wipe my mouth. While I hear the wooden stairs go up, it was the elector, our papa blessed , who came into my room to see where the fire was. When he saw me with my fat mouth and chin, he began to swear:

'Sacrament, Liselotte, I think you smear something on your face.' I said, 'It's just mouth pomade that I put on because of the split lips.' Papa said, 'You guys are dirty.' Then the laugh came to me; Papa and everyone who was with him thought I would have been mad to laugh like that. The rough countess came up and went through my maid's chamber, came along and said: 'Ah, how does the maiden room smell like bacon salad.' Then the elector noticed the antics and said: 'That's your mouth pomade, Liselotte.' When I saw that the elector was in a good mood, I confessed to the matter and miscalculated the whole deal as I would have cheated on the court mistress. The elector just laughed at it, but Kolbin hasn't forgiven me for a long time. "

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b Jakob Christoph Iselin et al., General Historical Lexicon: In which the life and deeds of those ... , p. 717 f. ([Digitized version])

↑ Communications of the Historical Association of the Palatinate, Volume 102, ed. v. Paul Warmbrunn, Speyer 2004, p. 128 ff .: Kolb von Wartenberg ( digitized ; PDF; 1.2 MB)

↑ Ingrid Buchloh et al. (Hrsg.), Konvergenzen (Giessen contributions to foreign language didactics), 8. Preceptors of the nobility, Tübingen 1996, p. 359 ([digitized version])

^ Women's music culture: a handbook on the German-speaking area of the early modern period , Die Kurfürstliche Familie von der Pfalz, p. 174 ( digitized version )

↑ mediaculture-online: Liselotte's first letter from the French royal court ( Memento of the original from September 8, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2
↑ Travel Guide Kaiserslautern - On the way in Kaiserslautern: From the Japanese Garden to the Imperial Palace
↑ Jakob Christoph Iselin et al., Neu-Vermehrtes Historisch- und Geographisches Allgemeine Lexicon , p. 1004 ( digitized version )
↑ Hans Wagner in: Hiking in the Palatinate Forest Local history and folklore: The possessions of the von Flersheim family in the former Oberamt Lautern and the surrounding area (March 12, 2013)
↑ Heidelberg Old Town: The Bacon Salad

literature

Kurt Baumann, "Jungfer Kolb". Maria Ursula Kolb von Wartenberg. Educator of Liselotte von der Pfalz, in: Kurt Baumann, From history and people of the Palatinate. Selected essays by Kurt Baumann. Volume 73, Publications of the Palatinate Society for the Advancement of Science, Speyer 1984

Web links

Special tours “time travel” - The roles and their actors: Jungfer Kolb von Wartenberg (Dr. Gabriele Gerigk) , the educator of Elisabeth Charlotte, the daughter of Elector Karl Ludwig, tells of her difficult life as the guardian of a tomboy

personal data
SURNAME	Kolb von Wartenberg, Maria Ursula
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Kolb Freiin von Wartenberg, Maria Ursula (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Educator of Liselotte von der Pfalz
DATE OF BIRTH	July 31, 1618
DATE OF DEATH	July 29, 1674

[JCI-1] Jakob Christoph Iselin et al., General Historical Lexicon: In which the life and deeds of those ... , p. 717 f. ([Digitized version])

[2] Communications of the Historical Association of the Palatinate, Volume 102, ed. v. Paul Warmbrunn, Speyer 2004, p. 128 ff .: Kolb von Wartenberg ( digitized ; PDF; 1.2 MB)

[3] Ingrid Buchloh et al. (Hrsg.), Konvergenzen (Giessen contributions to foreign language didactics), 8. Preceptors of the nobility, Tübingen 1996, p. 359 ([digitized version])

[4] Women's music culture: a handbook on the German-speaking area of the early modern period , Die Kurfürstliche Familie von der Pfalz, p. 174 ( digitized version )