Marie from Kramsta

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Marie von Kramsta (* 1843 in Freiburg . Striegau district ; † 1923 ) was a German patroness and benefactress and owner of the Muhrau estate and other estates in Silesia .

Life

Marie came from the von Kramsta family . Her parents were the industrialist Eduard von Kramsta (1810–1875) and Emilie, b. Kramsta († 1846). She was their third child. After the death of her father in 1875, she inherited his property. This made it possible for her, like her grandfather, the Secret Commerce Councilor Georg Gottlob Kramsta , to get involved socially. She built workers' apartments and school buildings as well as old people's and children's homes on her property. In her hometown of Freiburg she donated a community hospital, a home for young women workers and the Marienhaus, in Giersdorf the Hedwigshaus, in Seifershau the Gottesgruß house, in Ketschdorf the Emmastift and in Schreiberhau the deaconess house. In Püschkau she built the church as well as the rectory and a chapel in the Muhrau castle park with her own resources. She introduced voluntary social benefits for the workers on her estates.

From her travels, which she undertook to Rome and Munich, she brought with her paintings by important painters, including Franz von Lenbach and Arnold Böcklin . In 1888 and 1897 she gave some of the paintings to the Silesian Museum of Fine Arts . In Berchtesgaden she met the writer Richard Voss . Writers and artists frequented their country estate in Schreiberhau, among them Carl Hauptmann . Her brother Gerhart Hauptmann paid tribute to her in 1910 in a character from his novel The Fool in Christo Emanuel Quint .

In 1915, Marie von Kramsta transferred her property to her grandnephew Hans Christoph von Wietersheim-Kramsta (1899–1978), who was not yet of legal age, to the family fideikommiss Wirrwitz , Krolkwitz and Neuen (all of the district of Breslau ). In 1916 she gave him the Muhrau and Grunau estates in the Striegau district. After Marie's death in 1923, Hans Christoph inherited Puschkau , Czech , Niklasdorf and Preilsdorf . Hans Christoph's cousin Kurt von Wietersheim inherited the Rauske , Bertholdsdorf and Förstchen estates from Neuland in the Löwenberg district . By testamentary regulation, both cousins ​​also adopted the name Kramsta . The name of Wietersheim-Kramsta goes back to these two .

Marie von Kramsta had already moved from Muhrau to Berbisdorf in the Hirschberger Valley in 1916 . She died in 1923 and was buried in the Muhrau village cemetery.

literature

  • Adalbert Hoffmann, in: Schlesische Lebensbilder Vol. 2: Silesians of the 18th and 19th centuries , Breslau 1926, pp. 301–305
  • Hans Christoph von Kramsta: One of many. The fate of a Silesian farmer's life . ISBN 3-7053-1775-X , St. Michael, 1982

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Antonius Lux (ed.): Great women of world history. A thousand biographies in words and pictures . Sebastian Lux Verlag , Munich 1963, p. 276.
  2. ↑ a b Short biography of the Silesian Art Collections
personal data
SURNAME Kramsta, Marie von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German patroness and benefactress
DATE OF BIRTH 1843
PLACE OF BIRTH Freiburg , Striegau district
DATE OF DEATH 1923