Olga-Marie von Gemmingen-Guttenberg

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Olga-Marie Freifrau von Gemmingen-Guttenberg , b. Freiin von Saint-André (born July 10, 1916 in Karlsruhe ; † November 1, 1990 ) was a descendant of the barons of Saint-André landowner in Königsbach . About her mother, she was also co-heiress of Bonfelder upper castle the barons of Gemmingen -Guttenberg.

While the Bonfeld Upper Castle was sold, she ensured the continued existence of the von Saint-André family by adopting the war orphan Achim von Arnim. Because their marriage to Philipp von Gemmingen-Guttenberg (from the younger sub-branch Bonfeld-Dammhof ) also remained childless, the couple also adopted their nephew in order to ensure the continued existence of the Gemmingen house of Dammhof . She was an honorary citizen of Pfinztal . In Königsbach, Saint-Andre-Strasse has been named after her since 1990 .

Life

She was the daughter of the Grand Duke of Baden Chamberlain Wilhelm von Saint-André and his wife Luise von Gemmingen-Guttenberg (branch Bonfeld Oberschloss). She spent her school days in various boarding schools , then became a kindergarten teacher and ran an after- school care center in Pforzheim until 1939 . On September 21, 1939, she married Philipp Ludwig Carl Ferdinand Gemmo von Gemmingen-Guttenberg (Younger Unterzweig Bonfeld-Dammhof) in Heidelberg , who was soon called to the fronts of the Second World War , which had broken out , and was wounded several times there. Meanwhile, Olga-Marie lived with her mother at Königsbach Castle , which during the war was also occupied by the military and a department of the Pforzheim hospital.

She had two brothers who died childless in 1937 and 1944, making her the last descendant of the Barons of Saint-André. As a result, she became the landowner in Königsbach, the owner of the castle there and the owner of numerous other goods, including the Schwarzerdhof estate in Bretten .

After the childless death of her uncle and the last descendants of the Bonfeld-Oberschloss branch of the Barons of Gemmingen, Hans von Gemmingen-Guttenberg (1878–1940), his property fell to his sisters Marie Luise (1877–1945), married to Edgar von Rotberg ( 1898–1932), and Luise (1880–1955), Olga-Marie's mother. Between 1951 and 1958, Olga-Marie and her co-heir, her cousin Hans von Rotberg (1899–1967), sold the upper castle in Bonfeld to the current owners, the Gebhard family. The other real estate of the Bonfeld-Oberschloss line was also sold. In 1953, she and her mother handed over the family archive of the von Saint-André to the General State Archives in Karlsruhe .

After the end of the war, Olga-Marie and her husband, who had returned from prison, moved into the Dammhof . In the post-war period, her husband managed the Saint-André property as a rent officer and from 1958 he managed the Dammhof himself.

When it became clear that the couple would have no offspring either, in 1961 Olga-Marie adopted the war orphan and Königsbach foster son Achim von Arnim (* 1942), whose descendants have since been named von Saint-André-Arnim . In 1986, Olga-Marie and Philipp von Gemmingen-Guttenberg finally adopted the son Horst Dieter (* 1943) from Philipp's sister Christa, who succeeded the couple at the Dammhof and has since been named Gemmingen-Guttenberg .

In 1985, she donated 15 hectares of forest, the so-called Edelmannswald in the district of Söllingen, which had been owned by Saint-André since 1650 , to the Pfinztal community from the old Saint-Andréschem property . A memorial stone in that forest commemorates the donation.

Olga-Marie von Gemmingen-Guttenberg was made an honorary citizen of the Pfinztal community, and in 1990 Saint-Andre-Strasse in Königsbach was named after her. She is buried in the family cemetery of the Barons von Saint-André in Königsbach. The castle in Königsbach and the family cemetery were transferred to a foundation after her death.

literature

  • Maria Heitland: Family chronicle of the barons of Gemmingen. Continuation of the chronicles from 1895 and 1925/26 , Elztal 1991.
  • Friedrich Sander: Königsbacher Heimatbuch , Gemeinde Königsbach-Stein 1986, pp. 235/236.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Rudolf Petzold: The Bonfeld castles. In: Bonfeld. Local history contributions from the past and present of a former imperial knighthood village. City of Bad Rappenau, Bad Rappenau 2000, ISBN 3-929295-62-8 , p. 133.
  2. ↑ Description of the archive material on the website of the state archive
  3. ↑ Ulrike Faulhaber: Bahnhofstrasse in Königsbach is being renovated . Pforzheimer Zeitung , October 18, 2012 ( Memento from October 20, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
  4. ↑ The deceased is also remembered in the cemetery of the Saint André family
personal data
SURNAME Gemmingen-Guttenberg, Olga-Marie von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gemmingen-Guttenberg, Olga-Marie Baroness von (full name); Saint-André, baroness of (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German nobles, landlady of Königsbach, honorary citizen of Pfinztal
DATE OF BIRTH July 10, 1916
PLACE OF BIRTH Karlsruhe
DATE OF DEATH November 1, 1990