Pour la vertu

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Pour la vertu in the version from 1853 (Dobbertin)

Pour la vertu ( For virtue ) was a Mecklenburg monastery order , which was awarded from 1763 to 1918 to conventuals in the three women's monasteries of the Mecklenburg monasteries Dobbertin , Ribnitz and Malchow .

history

In 1763, Louise Friederike , Duchess of Mecklenburg, and as the wife of Friedrich zu Mecklenburg, sovereign of the partial duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin , gave the knightly daughters in the three state monasteries on Christmas Eve a "lasting memory of [your] state-maternal affection" - a cross for them Virtue. She chose her 42nd birthday, February 3, 1764, as the foundation day. The handover of the medals was celebrated in the Dobbertin Monastery on March 9, 1764 with a lavish party and over 100 selected guests, a large celebratory meal and a subsequent ball. At Ribnitz Monastery, things were a little quieter with a reception, supper and an evening illumination of the monastery grounds.

Order decoration

The order consisted of a gold-plated, silver and white enameled anchor cross on a halo, which was topped with a golden ducal crown . The monogram appeared in the central shield, which was also crowned LF. It was worn on differently colored, lined shoulder straps: blue with white edging stood for the Dobbertin monastery, red with white for the Malchow monastery and white with red edging for the Ribnitz monastery. Bourgeois conventual women were supposed to wear the cross in a smaller form on a bow, which initially met with decided resistance.

After the death or the marriage, the order was to be returned to the dominatrix.

  • Ribnitz

  • Malchow

  • Dobbertin

Breast star

Luise von Sachsen-Gotha-Altenburg donated another one to the cross in 1787 for the dominatrix and the conventuals in Dobbertin and Malchow, but not in Ribnitz, who received the highest rate of care according to the seniority principle (32 conventuals in Dobbertin, 14 conventuals in Malchow) Breast star to be worn on the left , for the dominatrix with diamonds.

Order of Augustus

Grand Duchess Auguste , the first wife of Friedrich Franz II , renewed the statutes of the order on May 26, 1853. She converted the stars of the Dominae into large enamelled silver stars with a crown over the central medallion ("Order of Augustus"). At the same time, the bourgeois conventual women were allowed to wear their little cross on a lady's sash like the noble young women. Women who had not yet advanced to the convent and who received the full and sometimes only half the amount of money, but who did not live in the monastery, were now entitled to order. New crosses were issued for them. They bore the Grand Duchess' initialsA and were designed in the colors of the ribbons.

care

Cross on a lady's bow in the version from 1871 for Malchow with the initial of Grand Duchess Marie

Marie von Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt , the third wife of Friedrich Franz II, added the statutes of the order for the Malchow monastery on December 23, 1871. All 41 women were now entitled to raise money in full and the 12 eldest women (counting from their enrollment onwards) were allowed to raise money in full. They were allowed to wear the cross on a lady's bow. Marie had 20 crosses made with her initial MM.

The last decree on the Mecklenburg monastery order was issued on October 31, 1913 by Grand Duchess Alexandra of Mecklenburg-Schwerin . After the state parliament decided in 1909 to significantly increase the number of raising points from the Ribnitz monastery, there was a lack of medals for the 14 women who had been added to raise money in full. At the introduction of Domina Marie von Quitzow , Alexandra granted the monastery new crosses, nine larger ones for the aristocratic and five smaller ones for the bourgeois conventual women.

memory

In 2006, the German Amber Museum in Ribnitz curated the special exhibition Decorations for Ladies - Noble Ladies 'Pencils and the Rulers' True Affection .

Remarks

  1. ↑ money raising the proportion, the members had a Convention received from the income of the monastery. They represented maintenance payments from the monastery to the conventuals and legally corresponded to a benefice . Elevation . In: German Academy of Sciences of the GDR, Prussian Academy of Sciences (Hrsg.): German legal dictionary . tape 5 , booklet 4 (edited by Otto Gönnenwein , Wilhelm Weizsäcker , with the assistance of Hans Blesken). Hermann Böhlaus successor, Weimar ( adw.uni-heidelberg.de - publication date between 1952 and 1960). Regarding the legal idea: APR I 11 § 107 and I 11 § 1099

See also

literature

  • Eduard Viereck: The legal relationships of the four Mecklenburg virgin monasteries according to their historical development. Berlin 1875.
  • Maximilian Gritzner: Handbook of the ladies' founders existing in the German Empire, Austria-Hungary, Denmark, Sweden and the Russian Eastern Provinces and in the rank of equal charities, together with the order of the former. Frankfurt am Main, 1893, pp. 56-60.
  • Karl Schmalz: Church history of Mecklenburg. Volume 2: Reformation and Counter-Reformation. Schwerin 1936.
  • Horst Alsleben: Duchess founded the first monastery order. SVZ Lübz-Goldberg-Plau, February 22, 1996.
  • Horst Alsleben: A medal for the dominatrix. SVZ, Mecklenburg-Magazin, December 10, 1999.
  • Karin Anett Möller, Torsten Fried: Documentation of the missing art works of the Mecklenburg State Museum due to the war. Volume II. Coins, Medals, Orders of Honor. State Museum Schwerin, 2005 ISBN 3-86106-087-6 .
  • Klaus H. Feder, Horst Alsleben , Wolfgang Wiek: pour la vertu - For virtue. Some reflections on the Mecklenburg monasteries in Dobbertin, Malchow and Ribnitz. Militaria, Volume 29, Issue 2 (2006), pp. 44–56.
  • Antje Koolmann: Order Foundation for Conventual Women. SVZ, Mecklenburg-Magazin, May 4, 2007.
  • Axel Attula: decorations for the ladies. Evangelical women's pens in Northern Germany and their medals. Thomas Helms Verlag, Schwerin 2011 ISBN 978-3-940207-21-0 .
  • Horst Alsleben: The Dobbertiner Konvent - A Christian Community in the Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin. In: Dobbertin Monastery, History - Building - Life. (= Contributions to the history of art and the preservation of monuments in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania . Volume 2) Schwerin, 2012, ISBN 978-3-935770-35-4 , pp. 53–63.

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Printed sources

Unprinted sources

  • State Main Archive Schwerin (LHAS)
    • LHAS 1.1-9 awards of medals .
    • LHAS 3.2-3 / 1 Provincial Monastery / Monastery Office Dobbertin.
    • LHAs 3.2-3 / 2 State Monastery / Monastery Office Malchow.
    • LHAS 5.2-1 Grand Ducal Cabinet I. No. 8229.
    • LHAS 5.2-1 Grand Ducal Cabinet III. State monasteries. No. 795, 796.
    • LHAS 5.11-2 Landtag assemblies , Landtag negotiations , Landtag minutes , Landtag committee.
    • LHAS 5.12-5 / 1 Ministry of Finance.
  • Landeskirchenarchiv Schwerin (LKAS)
    • LKAS, OKR Schwerin, No. 11.9.2 Orders, awards and badges.
  • City of Ribnitz-Damgarten, city archive.
    • Stock 5.1.3 Dobbertin Monastery 1612–1891.

Web links

Commons : Pour la vertu  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bluntschli, Brater: German State Dictionary . Volume 6. 1861, p. 599
  2. ^ Hempel: Handbook of the Meklenburger country . Volume 1. 1837, p. 233
  3. ↑ GoogleBooks
  4. ^ Mecklenburg-Schwerin State Handbook . 1880, p. 207 ff.
  5. ↑ Axel Attula: decorations for women. Mecklenburg Church Newspaper April 23, 2006.