Sophie von Campenhausen

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Sophie Freiin von Campenhausen

Sophie Freiin von Campenhausen (* 3rd October July / 14th October 1776 greg. On the Orellen estate in Livonia ; † 22 September 1835 in Doberan ; full name: Martha Friederike Sophie Freiin von Campenhausen ) was a Russian lady-in-waiting to the Hereditary Princess Helene Paulowna von Mecklenburg [-Schwerin] , chief stewardess of the Hereditary Grand Duchess Alexandrine of Mecklenburg [-Schwerin] and wife of the Mecklenburg (first) Minister Leopold von Plessen .

family

Sophie von Campenhausen was the daughter of the imperial Russian senator , Privy Councilor , civil governor of Livonia, district administrator and landlord of Orellen Balthasar Freiherr von Campenhausen and his wife Sophie Eleonore von Campenhausen nee. Woldeck von Arneburg (1744–1791), the heiress of Rohrbeck in the Altmark . She is the granddaughter of the Russian Lieutenant General and Governor General of Finland Balthasar Freiherr von Campenhausen (who was also the builder of the house where she was born on the Orellen estate) and his second wife Helene Juliane nee. from Straelborn.

Sophie had two sisters and four brothers. Her eldest brother, Balthasar Freiherr von Campenhausen (1772–1823), became the Imperial Controller of Russia, a member of the Russian Imperial Council and Russian Finance and Interior Minister ; her brother Hermann (1773–1836) took over the Orellen estate from his father and married Countess Keyserling ; her brother Christoph (1780–1841) was a member of the Russian consistory in St. Petersburg ; her older sister Leocadie married Magnus Barclay de Tolly, the only son of the Russian Field Marshal and Minister of War Michael Andreas Barclay de Tolly ; her younger sister Charlotte (1778-1831) married the Russian governor of Estonia , Gotthard Wilhelm von Budberg-Bönninghausen .

  • Grandfather Balthasar (I.)

  • Grandmother Helene

  • Father Balthasar (II.)

  • Mother Sophie Eleonore

  • Brother Balthasar (III.)

Life

Husband Leopold von Plessen (painting by Rudolph Suhrlandt , around 1808)

In 1799, Sophie von Campenhausen accompanied the Russian Grand Duchess Helene Paulowna (1784–1803) to the Princely Court of Mecklenburg-Schwerin after her marriage to the Hereditary Prince Friedrich Ludwig of Mecklenburg . This corresponded to a prevailing custom in the tsarist family to take a Russian lady-in-waiting to foreign royal houses. Baroness von Campenhausen got to know the later Mecklenburg Minister and District President Leopold von Plessen. The Schwerin regent Friedrich Franz I , who had been friends with Plessen for many years until his death, pushed the relationship between the two and bet on a wedding. On May 24, 1802, Sophie von Campenhausen and Leopold von Plessen married in Ludwigslust . The marriage was considered happy and it resulted in two sons and a daughter. The youngest son, Hermann Leopold Christian, became Chamberlain of Mecklenburg in 1839 . The eldest son, Friedrich Leopold, became a Prussian government trainee. The daughter, Luise (Therese), married the Grand Ducal Mecklenburg Real Secret Councilor Friedrich Albert von Oertzen (1797–1873) from the house of Kittendorf and lived on his estate at Kurzen - and Langen- Trechow ; two other children died shortly after birth.

For official reasons, the von Plessen family took their permanent residence in Ludwigslust, the main residence of the Mecklenburg dukes at that time, where Duke Friedrich (the Pious) had already had spacious apartments built for court officials. Sophie became a preferred interlocutor and advisor to her husband Leopold von Plessen on political issues. Her manifold family contacts up to the highest offices in the Russian tsarist empire played an essential role in this.

Good orelles
Good dolgen

The Sophie and Leopold von Plessen family were also owners of the knightly estate Dolgen am See and had the Dolgen manor rebuilt based on the model of the Orellen manor of the von Campenhausen family in Livonia. From 1824 onwards, Sophie and her family spent every summer on this estate on the Dolgener See and, through the numerous visits by high-ranking personalities, helped the place to achieve considerable political importance.

In 1822, King Friedrich Wilhelm III elected. from Prussia Sophie as chief stewardess for his very young daughter Alexandrine at the Schwerin court. He had come to know and appreciate Sophie von Campenhausen during the time when she was still the lady-in-waiting to Helene Paulowna. In 1824 Sophie resigned from this office. She died after a short illness in 1835 and was on the old Doberaner cemetery at the Cathedral on the eastern monastery wall buried where the double tomb to this day in the city Bad Doberan under monument protection is obtained provided park "stream garden" in restored (2016) state . In 1837 her husband Leopold was buried next to her. The diplomat and writer Ludwig von Hirschfeld (1842-1896) found in his book Von einer deutschen Fürstenhofe. Historical memory from Altmecklenburg the following closing words:

“Leopold von Plessen was buried at the side of his wife, only a few steps away from the venerable walls of the old church, a magnificent monument of Gothic architecture, the mausoleum of the Mecklenburg dukes, in whose central nave the stone sarcophagus of Friedrich Franz I rises. So they rest close together in death, the three people whose fates were closely intertwined in life ... "

Awards

literature

Double burial site at Doberan Minster , 2018
  • Grete Grewolls: Campenhausen, Sophie von. In: Who was who in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania? Ed. Temmen, Bremen [a. a.] 1995. ISBN 3-86108-282-9 . P. 81
  • Sophie von Campenhausen: From the diary of a lady-in-waiting… [1799-1800]. In: Ludwig von Hirschfeld: From a German royal court. Volume 1. Hinstorff, Rostock 1896, pp. 193-270
  • Sophie von Campenhausen: From the diary of a lady-in-waiting. A cultural image. Edited by Ludwig von Hirschfeld. In: Vom Fels zum Meer , Spemann's Illustrierte Zeitschrift für das Deutsche Haus, Volume 2, 1893
  • Sophie von Campenhausen: From the diary of a lady-in-waiting. A cultural image. Edited by Ludwig von Hirschfeld. In: From rock to sea. Scherl, Berlin, Volume 12. 1892/93, pp. 354-360, 413-419, 475-478, 500-506
  • Ludwig von Hirschfeld: An old school statesman. In: Ders .: From a German royal court. Vol. 2. Wismar: Hinstorff 1896, pp. 1–263
  • Max Naumann: The Plessen. Line from the XIII. to XX. Century. CA Starke Verlag, Limburg [Lahn], pp. 160-161
  • Ulrike Palme: Leopold Hartwig Engelke von Plessen - a European from Mecklenburg in the 19th century. In: Colloquium in memory of Prof. Dr. phil. habil. Ilona Buchsteiner . Rostock: Univ., Philosophische Fak., Inst. Für Geschichtswiss. 2004, pp. 70-83
  • Orellen - manor under the oaks. Catalog of the exhibition in the Rundale Palace Museum and the Herder Institute in Marburg, 1998

Web links

Commons : Sophie von Campenhausen  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

References and comments

  1. ↑ Different on the grave slab: GEB. THE 14TH OCTOBER 1779 .
  2. ↑ today: Ungurmuiža , Pārgauja District , Latvia
  3. ↑ Different on the grave slab: GEST. SEPTEMBER 21st, 1835 .
  4. ^ Baltic Historical Commission (ed.): Entry to Campenhausen, Balthasar Frh. V .. In: BBLD - Baltic biographical lexicon digital
  5. ^ Johann Friedrich von Recke , Karl Eduard von Napiersky : General writers and scholars lexicon of the provinces of Livonia, Esthland and Courland . Vol. 1 (1827), pp. 326-327 .
  6. ^ Genealogical handbook of the Baltic knighthoods. Part 1,1: Livonia . Vol. 1. Görlitz, 1929, p. 24
  7. ^ Olavi Pesti: Balthasar Freiherr von Campenhausen and Saaremaa . aai.ee; accessed June 30, 2013
  8. ↑ Welcome to Dolgen… - Dolgener town sign
  9. ↑ Ulrike Palme: Leopold von Plessen. In: Ilona Buchsteiner (Hrsg.): Mecklenburgers in German history of the 19th and 20th centuries. Ingo Koch Verlag, Rostock 2001, pp. 79-80.
  10. ↑ Landschaft-mv.de commitment (with photo of the restored grave site)
  11. ↑ Ludwig von Hirschfeld: A statesman of the old school. From the life of the Mecklenburg Minister Leopold von Plessen . In: From a German royal court. Historical memory from Altmecklenburg . Published by his widow. Volume 2. Wismar 1896, pp. 1-263
  12. ↑ Список кавалерам Императорских Российских орденов всех наименований на лето от рождества Христова 1827. Часть 1 Санкт-Петербург при Императорской Академии Наук. 1828. С. 13.
personal data
SURNAME Campenhausen, Sophie von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Plessen, Sophie von (later name); Campenhausen, Martha Friederike Sophie von (full name); Campenhausen, Sophie Freiin von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian chief steward
DATE OF BIRTH October 14, 1776
PLACE OF BIRTH Orelles
DATE OF DEATH September 22, 1835
Place of death Doberan