Wilhelmine Charlotte Nuessler

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Wilhelmine Charlotte Nüßler , since 1719 Wilhelmine Charlotte Countess of Ballenstedt , (born May 10, 1683 in Harzgerode , † May 30, 1740 in Gernrode ) was the second wife of Prince Karl Friedrich von Anhalt-Bernburg .

Life

Wilhelmine Charlotte, a godchild of Prince Wilhelm von Anhalt-Harzgerode and his sister Duchess Elisabeth Charlotte von Holstein-Norburg, also known as the beautiful Nüßlerin , was the daughter of Gottlieb Christian Nüßler in Harzgerode. She was born in what later became known as the Wolfshof . Orphaned at an early age, she had to earn her own living and, at the age of 15, began her service as a maid in the house of the Harzgeröder court marshal and hunter master of Butlar. By 1710, the elder by about 15 years widowed was continuing-bernburgische Hereditary Prince Karl Friedrich of Wilhelmine Charlotte Nüßler attention.

On March 13, 1712, in Harzgerode, shielded from the public, their son Friedrich von Bährnfeld, who later became Count of Bährnfeld, was born in the pharmacist's house. The couple's marriage took place in the Bernburg Palace, secretly without the knowledge of the princely family, on May 1, 1715, Deacon Emanuel Philipp Paris . The faculties of the universities in Halle and Helmstedt issued favorable reports for the unequal marriage; the first-born son of Wilhelmine Charlotte was also offered the prospect of a state succession in the event of a lack of princes. On July 1, 1717, the couple had a second son, Karl Leopold (also a later Count of Bährnfeld) at Plötzkau Castle .

Against the fierce resistance of his father and his brother Lebrecht , Karl Friedrich tried to legitimize the morganatic marriage appropriately and turned to Prince Leopold I of Anhalt-Dessau , who mediated with the emperor. Charles VI On December 19, 1719, Wilhelmine Charlotte finally elevated her to Countess von Ballenstedt on account of Prince Leopold von Dessau's services to the empire , omitting her previous family name . The title was bestowed on her and the children produced with Karl Friedrich Fürst von Anhalt. Karl Friedrich left the office of Gröbzig to Prince Leopold for the procurement costs. When Karl Friedrich took office in 1718, she was practically Princess of Anhalt-Bernburg. In 1721, after the Prince's death, she moved into Gernrode Castle as a widow's residence .

After the death of her husband, Wilhelmine Charlotte was prohibited from using the princely title by the Reichshofrat . While he was still alive, Karl Friedrich had managed to pay Wilhelmine Charlotte 5000 thalers a year from his son's first marriage, Viktor Friedrich , as body breeding and Wittum, and to provide her two sons with the same amount of allowance.

progeny

Wilhelmine Charlotte had two sons from their marriage:

literature

  • Carl Eduard Vehse: History of the German courts since the Reformation , part 37, Hamburg, 1856, p. 276 f. ( Digitized version )
  • Kurt Müller : The love of the Hereditary Prince Karl-Friedrich von Anhalt-Bernburg for the beautiful Charlotte Nüßlerin. In: Bernburg Calendar 1935
  • Michael Sikora : A miscarriage in the Anhalt house. On the social practice of the corporate society in the first half of the 18th century. In: The Princes of Anhalt, ed. by W. Freitag and M. Hecht, 2003, pp. 248-265
  • Bernd Stephan: Minne, Mätressen and Mesalliancen , p. 106 ff., Verlag Dr. Bussert & Stadeler, 2008
  • Carolin Doller: Bourgeois wives. Unequal connections in the house of Anhalt-Bernburg. In: Nobility in Saxony-Anhalt. Court culture between representation, entrepreneurship and family. Edited by Eva Labouvie, Cologne 2007, pp. 17–48
  • Karl-Heinz Börner : The beautiful Nüßlerin . In: 1025 years Harzgerode, Harzgerode 2018, pp. 221–232

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Karl Friedrich Dieck: Reprint of the revision duplicate for the Lord Count Gustav Adolph ... , p. 335 f., Leipzig, 1846
  2. ↑ AT-OeStA / AVA Adel RAA 15.42
  3. ↑ Gerhard Heine: History of the Land of Anhalt and its Princes , p. 210
  4. ↑ August Ludwig Reyscher, Wilhelm Eduard Wilda , Georg Beseler, Otto Stobbe (Eds.): Journal for German Law and German Jurisprudence , p. 12, 1st volume, Leipzig, 1839
personal data
SURNAME Nüßler, Wilhelmine Charlotte
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Nüssler, Wilhelmine Charlotte
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Countess of Ballenstedt
DATE OF BIRTH May 10, 1683
PLACE OF BIRTH Harzgerode
DATE OF DEATH May 30, 1740
Place of death Gernrode