Princess Luise Dorothea of Prussia

Luise Dorothea Sophie of Brandenburg ( born September 29, 1680 in Berlin, † December 23, 1705 in Kassel) was a princess and Margravine of Brandenburg and by marriage Hereditary Princess of Hesse- Kassel.

Life

Louise was later to become the only daughter of King Frederick I. (1657-1713) from his first marriage with Elisabeth Henriette (1661-1683), daughter of Count William VI. of Hesse- Kassel.

She married on 31 May 1700 in Berlin, her cousin, the Hereditary Prince Frederick of Hesse -Kassel ( 1676-1751 ). The wedding was celebrated with great effort over several weeks in Berlin, Oranienburg, Potsdam and Kassel. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, who was at the time of the wedding in Berlin, reported: "The planned academy founded fascinates me more to this place than the festive Hochzeitspomp, which is now being prepared, when the bridegroom here yesterday with a large and brilliant retinue of wagons, horses and people made ​​his entrance and a recording was made, in which a royal grandeur nothing was missing. " On the occasion of marriage written by the theologian Conrad Mel congratulation font Legatio orientalis.

Louise was constantly ill during the five years of their marriage and died aged 25 having borne no children. The early death of his wife allowed Friedrich remarriage with Ulrike Eleonore and he was thus finally in 1720 the King of Sweden.