Princess Luise of Anhalt-Bernburg
Wilhelmine Luise of Anhalt- Bernburg ( born October 30, 1799 in Ballenstedt, † December 9, 1882 in Eller in Dusseldorf ) was a princess of Anhalt- Bernburg and by marriage Princess of Prussia. After their marriage they settled, as in the Hohenzollern common in the 19th century, styling life after her husband Princess Friedrich and Princess Frederick of Prussia.
Life
Louise was the second child of Prince Alexis of Anhalt- Bernburg (1767-1834) and Princess Friederike (1768-1839), daughter of the Landgrave Wilhelm IX. of Hesse- Kassel Schloss Ballenstedt to the world. She was baptized in the name Wilhelmine Louise. Her name was Louise or Luise written alternately until the German form of the name had prevailed. On Ballenstedter yard Luise had dealings with the painter Caroline Bardua and their sister Wilhelmina and Princess also developed itself into a talented illustrator.
Luise married on November 21, 1817 on his father's castle in Ballenstedt Prince Frederick of Prussia ( 1794-1863 ), whom she had met at the court in Dessau. They first lived in Berlin, where in 1820 the first son Alexander was born. With her husband, who had been summoned as a division commander to Dusseldorf, Louise lived on its castle Jägerhof and in the summer on Benrath or to Rheinstein Castle, the ruins of which Prince Frederick acquired in 1823 and until 1827 had had to expand since 1821. The second son, George came in 1826 in Dusseldorf to the world. The pair promoted the arts and had a significant influence on the cultural life of Düsseldorf. In the residence of the princess Luise received drawing and painting lessons from Wilhelm Kaulbach, Theodor Hildebrandt, Caspar Friedrich Scheurenstraße and Heunert.
Between 1834 and 1835 was Princess Louise from their private funds, the Clement Church in Trechtingshausen below the castle Rheinstein built .. 1837, she was patroness of the newly established "higher private school for Protestant girls" in Dusseldorf, which in her honor Luis school (today Luise -Gymnasium ) was named and opened on her birthday, 30 October 1837. The old chapel in Mägdesprung they donated 1838 of her painted in oil altarpiece " The cross -bearing Christ ", which she had copied from a painting by Ernst Deger in the style of the Nazarene. It is now in the Protestant chapel in Peter Alexisbad.
1843 she earned Schloss Eller at Dusseldorf, on which they retired to devote himself away from the representation of Düsseldorf operation of their beloved painting. Because of the revolution of 1848, Prince Frederick, however, was called back with his family to Berlin. When Louise returned in the summer of 1855 for a music festival to Dusseldorf, prevented a chronic nervous condition the return trip to Berlin and it remained permanently with a small court until her death at Schloss Eller. Your progressive mental illness that she had inherited from her mother and from her brother Duke Carl Alexander as her son Alexander were concerned, was treated with great discretion. Louise was one of the most prominent female patients of the homeopathic physician Samuel Hahnemann, with whom she had an extensive correspondence. Her husband remained in Berlin, but came every year to visit, to celebrate the birthday in common Eller. As often as she could, the Evangelical Protestant Christian attended services in the Reformed village church of Urdenbach whose community supported them financially.
In July 1863 Louise's husband, Prince Frederick and died just three weeks later her only brother Duke Carl Alexander of Anhalt- Bernburg. Since then, Louise saw himself as the last member of the House Bernburg and was with Duke Leopold of Anhalt in years of controversy over the Allodialerbe. After her death at Schloss Eller 1882, she was buried beside her husband in the vault of the chapel of Burg Rheinstein.
Honors
According to her, the Luis street in Dusseldorf and was built in 1823 Luis temple in Alexisbad are named.
The Düsseldorf City Museum holds several of her drawings and watercolors, which it presented from March and April 1998 in an exhibition and were then shown from July to August 1999, the Roman Baths in Potsdam.
Progeny
From their marriage Luise had two sons:
- Alexander (1820-1896), remained unmarried and without issue
- Georg (1826-1902), remained unmarried and without issue