Louis, Prince of Nassau-Saarbrücken

Ludwig ( born January 3, 1745 in Saarbrücken, † March 2, 1794 in Aschaffenburg ) was from 1768 until the French Revolution of the last Duke of Nassau- Saarbrücken.

Life

Ludwig was born as the second child and first son of William Henry (Nassau -Saarbrücken ) of Nassau- Saarbrücken and his wife Princess Sophie Christine of Erbach. Like his father, he was educated at the University of Strasbourg. An educational journey took him from 1759 to 1766 to England, France and Germany and the Netherlands.

On October 30, 1766 he married at Schloss Schwarzburg Wilhelmine von Schwarzburg- Rudolstadt ( 1751-1780 ). The marriage was unhappy, so Wihelmine retired at Schloss Halberg and there their son Heinrich Ludwig ( Nassau- Saarbrücken) educated.

With Frederike Amalie baroness of Dorsberg (* March 12, 1753, † April 12, 1802 ) became the father of Ludwig two illegitimate children:

• Frederika Luisa ( born February 18, 1771) ∞ François Leclerc d' Alteville
• Ludwig Carl Philipp (* / † 1774)

On February 28, 1787 married Louis Frederike's maid Catherine Kest. Since she was a commoner, Ludwig raised them to the Countess of Ottweiler. This relationship had seven other children; the youngest son Adolph was in the 1787 closed Morgana tables marriage to the world:

• Ludwig Albrecht (1775-1784)
• Carl Ludwig (1776-1799)
• Luise (1778-1855) ∞ 1802 Berlin Anton Joseph Fischer ( 1780-1862 )
• Heinrich (1779-1781)
• Ludwig (1785-1796)
• Catherine (1786-1818) ∞ September 25, 1810 Mauer near Heidelberg Heinrich Friedrich Wilhelmi ( 1786-1860 )
• Adolph von Ottweiler (1789-1812)

After his father had died in 1768, Louis entered the business of government in Nassau- Saarbrücken. He led the economic policy continued largely, but increasingly subject to budgetary constraints, so he pawned his rule Jugenheim in Rheinhessen 1769-1777 to the Principality of Nassau- Usingen. In 1770, he applied to Emperor Joseph II the establishment of a debt commission, which was dissolved in 1782. For thrift committed in the royal household, he moved his seat of government on the smaller hunting lodges in the Saarbrücken surrounding areas.

Despite a policy of economy managed Ludwig continue to be structurally active. He left in 1769 to create the castle and gardens Ludwigsberg on the Malstatter spell. The Ludwig church started under his father, Friedrich Joachim Stengel (Saarbrücken ), he ordered its completion in 1775. As ruler of enlightened absolutism, he pushed through numerous internal rearrangements of Agriculture and Forestry, the school system and the process order, including abolition of torture within the meaning of the Enlightenment. He was a Mason and a member of St. Henry's Lodge in Saarbrücken.

1793 fled the ailing health Ludwig before the French Revolution into exile Kurmainzer to Aschaffenburg. He died there in 1794. His remains were buried in the Castle Church in Usingen.

Ludwig's remains were reburied on 23 November 1995 in the Castle Church (Saarbrücken ).