Princess Elisabeth of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt

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Elisabeth of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt
Princess consort of Lippe
Tenure17 April 1852 – 8 December 1875
Born(1833-10-01)1 October 1833
Rudolstadt, Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt
Died27 November 1896(1896-11-27) (aged 63)
Detmold, Germany
Burial3 December 1896
Princely Crypt, Rudolstadt
Spouse
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(m. 1852; died 1875)​
HouseSchwarzburg-Rudolstadt
FatherAlbert, Prince of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt
MotherPrincess Augusta of Solms-Braunfels

Princess Elisabeth of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt (1 October 1833 – 27 November 1896) was Princess consort of Lippe as wife of Leopold III, Prince of Lippe from 1852 to 1875 and was the child of the reigning Albert, Prince of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt.

Life[edit]

Elisabeth of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt was the second child and only daughter of Prince Albert of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt and his wife Princess Augusta of Solms-Braunfels. The princess was raised “very simply and strictly” by a Swiss governess.[1] Elisabeth received drawing and painting lessons from the later Rudolstadt court painter Richard Schinzel.[2]

Elisabeth on her wedding day by Joseph Karl Stieler, circa 1852

On April 17, 1852, she married Leopold III, Prince of Lippe and moved with him to Detmold. Elisabeth remained close to her homeland, and even after her marriage she regularly visited Rudolstadt.[3] The princess was popular with the population, but the couple became increasingly estranged from each other, from which Elisabeth suffered greatly.[4]

Elisabeth was known for her charity and care; she used almost all of the resources at her disposal for charitable purposes. She also published various writings (including a booklet with Bible sayings for every day) and artistically designed Bible and baptismal sayings, but also larger art sheets, all of which were printed in large quantities. The proceeds from these works also benefited charity.[1][5]

In 1861 the princess founded a children's institution in Blomberg, which was named the Elisabeth Institution after her [6] She also promoted the founding and maintenance of the Augustineum Secondary School in Namibia.[7] Detmold's Elisabethstrasse also bears this name in her honor.

After Leopold's death, the marriage remained childless, Elisabeth moved into her widow's residence in the Neues Palace. From then on she only rarely took on representative tasks, but continued to follow political and social events as well as her social concerns.[1][4] In 1884 she arranged for Princess Luise (a sister of Woldemar, Prince of Lippe) to hand over her palace to the state pension chamber in order to house the “Princely Public Library” (today Lippische Landesbibliothek). [8] In addition, the widowed princess financed, among other things, the new building of the Hostel to the Homeland with 30,000 marks in 1885. The gymnasium of the Detmold Girls' School also owed its existence to Elisabeth; she was the patron of this school and the patron of the eight Detmold women's clubs.[9][10][11]

Since the death of her brother George Albert, to whom she shared a close bond throughout her life, Elisabeth stayed regularly in Niederkrossen. She managed the manor there, which became her property after Georg Albert's death. At her initiative, a handicraft school was also set up in town. During her last stay in the fall of 1896, the Dowager Princess contracted pneumonia, as a result of which she died on November 27 at around 11 p.m. In accordance with her wishes, Elisabeth was not buried in Detmold, but on December 3, 1896, in the princely crypt of the Rudolstadt town church St Andreas.[12][1][3]

Ancestry[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b c d Luise Koppen (1897-03-07), "Spring water for the German house", Princess Elisabeth zur Lippe, † November 27, 1896, vol. XXL. Year, Leipzig: Georg Wigand, pp. 6–10
  2. ^ Thüringer Landesmuseum Heidecksburg (27 November 2021). "Richard Schinzel: View of Schwarzburg Castle". museum-digital (in German). Retrieved 2023-01-18.
  3. ^ a b Home calendar for the German Empire for the common year 1898, Bielefeld / Leipzig: Velhagen & Klasing, 1898, p. 210
  4. ^ a b Ernst Anemüller (1927), "Sheets for Thuringian history and local history. Supplement to the state newspaper for Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt", Princess Elisabeth zur Lippe, p. 35
  5. ^ Velhagen & Klasing's monthly books, vol. Year 1896/97, Bielefeld / Leipzig: Velhagen & Klasing, 1897, p. 269
  6. ^ Fürstlich Lippisches Regierungs- und Anzeigeblatt vom Jahre 1861, Detmold: Meyer, 1863, pp. 107 f
  7. ^ The Protestant missions in the German colonies and protected areas, Berlin: Bookstore of the Berliner Evangel. Missionary Society, 1896, p. 32
  8. ^ (today [[Lippische Landesbibliothek Detmold|Lippische Landesbibliothek] ]). princepalais/ |title=On the history of the “House of Ebert” |work=Lippische Landesbibliothek |language=de-DE |access=2023-02-12}}
  9. ^ "History of the hostel to the homeland" (PDF) (in German). 2010. Retrieved 2023-02-12.
  10. ^ Helene Lange (1893), Development and status of higher education for girls in Germany, Berlin: R. Gaertner, p. 64
  11. ^ Gotthold Kreyenberg (1872), Education of girls and women's lives abroad and at home, Berlin: J. Guttentag, pp. 328 f
  12. ^ F. Beck (1876), Mittheilungen des Vereins für Geschichts- und Alterthumskunde zu Kahla und Roda, vol. 1, Kahla, p. 408{{citation}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)

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