Ulrike von Pogwisch

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Ulrike Henriette Adele Eleonor von Pogwisch; also Ulrica von Pogwisch (* 29. October 1798 in Dessau , † 23. September 1875 in Schleswig ) was a German Prioress and the sister of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's daughter.

Life

Ulrike von Pogwisch was the second daughter of Baron Wilhelm Julius von Pogwisch (* July 30, 1760 in Domnau in the district of Bartenstein ; † December 7, 1836 in Goddentow in Courland ), Prussian-Royal major of the cavalry and his wife Henriette Ulrike Ottilie von Pogwisch ; her sister was Ottilie , married to August von Goethe .

After the early separation of her parents in 1802, Ulrike's childhood was marked by numerous changes of location: Lausitz , Triesdorf , Ansbach , Ludwigslust and Dessau were the names of the stations that Henriette Ulrike Ottilie von Pogwisch visited in search of a suitable position as a lady-in-waiting .

In 1806 her mother moved to her mother, Countess Eleonore Maximiliane Ottilie Henckel von Donnersmarck , who in the same year had acquired what would later become the Pogwisch House in Weimar , which was immediately south of Goethe's garden house ; She brought her two daughters up shortly afterwards. Shortly thereafter, Ulrike's guardian was Count Albert Cajetan Edling (1772–1841).

At the age of nine, Ulrike was enrolled at the St. Johannis monastery outside Schleswig ; this reserved a place for her in the women's monastery for a later time . For this she needed, in addition to her Prussian citizenship , also the Danish one; She received her naturalization patent on May 22, 1807 from King Christian VII.

Wintry lunar landscape at the Schwansee by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

In Weimar, the two siblings quickly found social connections; These contacts led both young women to a domestic and family closeness to the Goethe family. A few months after her sister's wedding with Goethe's only son, Ulrike followed her in 1817 to the attic apartment in Goethe's house on Frauenplan; Ulrike lived ten years in the house of the aging poet, whom she also called Best Father and who gave her a winter drawing, among other things. In 1827, he signed the register sheet in two verses under an engraving from 1822 showing his summer house on the Ilm. At the request of her brother-in-law, she vacated her quarters and went to her mother to look after her until her death in 1851.

In 1859 she decided to take the reserved place in the St. Johannis monastery, moved to Schleswig and took up the position reserved for her as a conventual ; She had a small house built on the monastery grounds and was elected prioress of the monastery in 1864.

Ulrike made various connections with the citizens of the city, especially close contact with the Heiberg family of writers and lawyers, especially with the later writer Asta Heiberg .

With great sympathy, she was carried to the grave by Holmer fishermen in the cemetery; her iron grave cross still stands there today.

Two members of the Goethe family paid their aunt their last respects: Walter Wolfgang and Wolfgang Maximilian von Goethe , both grandsons of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.

She bequeathed the table silver of the Goethe family to the St. Johannis monastery; her letters are in the Goethe and Schiller archives .

literature

  • Ulrike von Pogwisch . In: Bernd Philipsen: Schleswiger heads . Husum 2013. ISBN 978-3-89876-671-5 . P. 72 f.
  • Nanny Friedrichs: St. John's Monastery of yore in memory of Ulrike von Pogwisch . Schleswiger news v. September 23, 1925, supplement.
  • Karsten Hein: Ottilie von Goethe (1796–1872). Biography and literary relationships of Goethe's daughter-in-law (= European university publications. Series 1: German Language and Literature , Volume 1782). Peter Lang, Frankfurt am Main et al. 2001, ISBN 3-631-37438-0 (dissertation University of Düsseldorf 2000, 398 pages).
  • Karsten Hein: Ottilie von Goethe. Insights into the house on Frauenplan . In: Andreas Remmel, Paul Remmel (Ed.): Goethe-Blätter. Series of publications by the Goethe Society Siegburg e. V. Volume IV. Bernstein, Bonn 2008, ISBN 978-3-9809762-4-4 .
  • Ruth Rahmeyer: Best father! Letters from Ulrike von Pogwisch to Goethe . Edition Leipzig, 1999.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Johann Samuel Publication: General Encyclopedia of Sciences and Arts in alphabetical order: Second Section: HN . Gleditsch, 1829 ( google.de [accessed June 29, 2020]).
  2. ↑ Sylke Kaufmann: Henriette von Pogwisch and their French Reading Society: a contribution to Weimar culture in the first half of the 19th century . Tectum Verlag DE, 1994, ISBN 978-3-929019-67-4 ( google.de [accessed June 30, 2020]).
  3. ↑ Sylke Kaufmann: Henriette von Pogwisch and their French Reading Society: a contribution to Weimar culture in the first half of the 19th century . Tectum Verlag DE, 1994, ISBN 978-3-929019-67-4 ( google.de [accessed June 30, 2020]).
  4. ↑ Jonas Zimmermann: The garden as a mirror of Werther's relationship to society. Retrieved June 30, 2020 .
  5. ^ Paul Steffen: The knight family Pogwisch and the Augustinian canon monastery Bordesholm. Retrieved June 30, 2020 .
  6. ↑ St. John's Monastery in front of Schleswig - Goethe silver. Retrieved June 30, 2020 .
  7. ^ Association of Friends of the Goethe and Schiller Archives e. V .: Society of Friends of the Goethe and Schiller Archives Weimar celebrates its 15th anniversary. In: News in the East. July 5, 2019, accessed June 30, 2020 (German).
personal data
SURNAME Pogwisch, Ulrike von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Pogwisch, Ulrike Henriette Adele Eleonore von; Pogwisch, Ulrica von; Pogwisch, Ulrique de
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German prioress
DATE OF BIRTH October 29, 1798
PLACE OF BIRTH Dessau
DATE OF DEATH September 23, 1875
Place of death Schleswig