Henriette Louise de Waldner de Freundstein

Henriette von Oberkirch ( born July 5, 1754 Schweighouse (German: Schweighausen ) at Thann in Alsace, † 10 June 1803 in Strasbourg ), better known as Baronne d' Oberkirch, was born a friend Waldner of stone. Her parents were Baron, later Count Franz Ludwig Waldner friend of Stone (1710-1788), Lord of Schmieheim, and his wife Wilhelmine Auguste von Berckheim to Rappoltsweiler.

Following her marriage to Siegfried von Oberkirch in 1773 and the birth of their only child, Marie Philippine she accompanied her friend, Princess Sophie Dorothee of Württemberg, who later became Russian Empress Maria Feodorovna, on a trip through Europe. She was also thinking of the court of Louis XVI. and Marie Antoinette.

She was friends with, among others, Jakob Michael Reinhold Lenz, who violently fell in love with it. 1776 he described in a letter to Goethe his ( unrequited ) feelings for her: a suffering of the type if it were stopped nothing to compare to the world.

Your posthumously published by her grandson, Count Léon de Montbrison memoirs are - despite some concerns about the authenticity - an excellent source. Should be read in them, as in the idyll of the ducal estate ( Etupes at Mömpelgard ) spirit and conviviality of the outgoing Ancien Régime for the last time in all its grace were alive (Walter pit: 900 year budgets Württemberg, 1984, pp. 455f. ) the Baroness Oberkirch have, writes Robert Uhland (p. 274), captured by the enchanting atmosphere of the court and described life at the Montbéliard yard alive.

A three-volume English edition ( Memoirs ) was published in 1852 in London, a two-volume Paris in 1853. More editions followed, as the memoirs were received with great interest. They deserve general popularity, the Daily News thought to the English edition (quoted in advertisement ).

2003 her memory was celebrated in Schweighouse occasion of its 200th anniversary.