Princess Marianne of the Netherlands

Wilhelmina Frederika Louise Charlotte Marianne of Orange- Nassau ( born May 9, 1810 in Berlin, † May 29 1883 in Castle Reinhart bei Erbach ) was Princess of the Netherlands and Prussia. She was an unusual for their time and in many ways highly unconventional and progressive woman.

Life

She was the daughter of King William I of the Netherlands and his wife Wilhelmine of Prussia, daughter of Frederick William II of Prussia. Since September 14, 1830 she was married to Prince Albert of Prussia, the youngest son of Queen Louise, but was divorced on 28 March 1849.

From this first marriage she had four children:

  • Friederike Luise Wilhelmine Marianne Charlotte (1831-1855), wife of Prince George in 1850, which later became Duke Georg II of Saxe -Meiningen
  • Friedrich Wilhelm Nikolaus Albrecht (1837-1906)
  • Friederike Luise Wilhelmine Elisabeth ( 27 August to 9 October 1840)
  • Friederike Wilhelmine Luise Elisabeth Alexandrine (1842-1906); ∞ 1865 wife of Duke Wilhelm of Mecklenburg ( 1827-1879 )

1845 she left her family after her husband had taken a extramarital affair. Later she entered a not befitting love affair with her ​​former coachman, travel companion and confidant John van Rossum ( 1809-1873 ). Only a few months after the divorce with Albrecht she gave birth on a trip to Sicily a son of Johannes von Rossum, Johann Wilhelm von Reinhart Stockhausen ( 1849-1861 ). Then the courts of Hague and Berlin broke off contacts with her. The Kingdom of Prussia she could only enter each for 24 hours.

From her mother she inherited the pin Kamenz rule in Silesia, which they in 1873 her son Albrecht gave the occasion of his wedding.

Pedigree

Patronage

1855 she obtained the Reinhartshausen Castle at Erbach in the Rheingau and made it into a cultural attraction. Princess Marianne had a collection of over 600 paintings, which were in a purpose-built museum, today's ballrooms housed. Part of the collection Princess Marianne is still located in the castle. She took young artists to live with him and supported them. 1861 she gave the community Erbach in memory of her late son John 60,000 guilders and a plot of land for the construction of the Protestant Church of St. John. In the 1870s she donated the bulk of the construction costs for the Wilhelmsturm in Dillenburg, a monument to the memory of William I of Orange.

Death

Marianne of Orange- Nassau died in 1883 at her residence, the Schloss Reinhartshausen in Erbach and their disposal was accordingly not buried next to her son in the Erbacher John Church, but next to her partner John van Rossum. For his grave they had commissioned a blessing Christ figure in the year of his death in 1873 at the cemetery of the Dutch Erbacher sculptor Johann Heinrich Stoever, who has also created the grave monument for her son in St. John's Church. On the local grave plate Johannes van Rossum is not mentioned, nor that her former husband was married again since 1853. The inscription reads:

Rest in God in anticipation of a joyful resurrection Wilhelmine Friederike Luise Charlotte Marianne Orange of Nassau, Princess of the Netherlands born at Berlin on May 9, 1810 married at The Hague on 14 Septbr. 1830 Friedrich Heinrich Albrecht Prince of Prussia died at Reinhart bei Erbach

1902, the floodplain in front of the castle Reinhartshausen was renamed in her honor in " Mariannenaue ". Your 200th birthday was taken in Castle Reinhartshausen and by the Protestant church as an occasion for celebrations in which her ​​life and work was appreciated.

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