Juliane Louise of East Frisia

Juliane Louise Princess of Ostfriesland (* November 16, 1657 in Aurich, † October 30, 1715 in Hamburg) was the eldest daughter of Prince Enno Ludwig von Ostfriesland and his second wife Justine Sophie von Barby.

After her father's death in 1660 she lived with her mother and her sister Sophia Wilhelmina at Castle Berum in Aurich. There were persistent inheritance disputes with Uncle Georg Christian, and after his death with his wife, who in Ostfriesland as guardian ruling Christine Charlotte of Württemberg. The dispute could only be settled by a 1695 comparison, according to tradition, Juliane Louise received a capital of 59,000 thalers, which was paid off two years later.

Juliane Louise had first lived after the death of her mother in 1677 penniless when her guardian Rudolf August, Duke of Brunswick -Lüneburg in Wolfenbüttel, from 1686 in which other relatives Duke Johann Adolf of Holstein Ploen. Become financially independent, she moved to Hamburg in 1698 and lived there in a house on Jungfernstieg. They also had a country seat in Ottensen. In 1700 she married the Rev. Joachim Morgenweck, who was preacher at the orphanage belonging to the Hamburger Mary Magdalene Church. The marriage took place in secret, because the connection between a nobleman and a pastor in 1700 is commonly regarded as scandalous. The couple lived separately and attracted no attention.

Juliane Louise died in October 1715 probably due to the plague. They bequeathed to Mary Magdalene Church last will and testament a sum of 3000 marks, which should be used for the care of their burial. Morgenweck received lifelong right of use over the house in Ottensen. The will was located from a holding for inheritance rights niece challenged with the result that the tomb was not released because of the outstanding money. Only in March 1717 funeral took place, the coffin had been to date 18 months in the hallway of the apartment on Jungfernstieg.

1807 Mary Magdalene church was demolished and reburied the tomb on the Dammtorbahnhof cemeteries, after its closure was further transfer to the cemetery Ohlsdorf. The tomb is one of the oldest in the cemetery and was restored in 2010. It is originally with the inscription This grave is never open, as long as the wind blows and the cock crows have been provided, today is the writing: tomb, which is never to open.