Count Frederick Charles Augustus of Lippe-Biesterfeld (20 January 1706 in Biesterfeld – 31 July 1781 in

Friedrichsruh Friedrichsruh () is a district in the municipality of Aumühle, Herzogtum Lauenburg district, Schleswig-Holstein, in northern Germany. Friedrichsruh manor is known as a residence of the princely House of Bismarck, mainly of Chancellor Otto von Bis ...

) was a Count of Lippe and Lord of Lippe-Biesterfeld, Sternberg and Schwalenberg and a Knight of the

Order of the Red Eagle The Order of the Red Eagle (german: Roter Adlerorden) was an order of chivalry of the Kingdom of Prussia. It was awarded to both military personnel and civilians, to recognize valor in combat, excellence in military leadership, long and faithful se ...

. He was the eldest son of Rudolf Ferdinand of Lippe-Sternberg-Schwalenberg (17 March 1671 – 12 July 1736) and Louise Juliane of Kunowitz (21 August 1671 – 21 October 1754) and the grandson of Jobst Herman of Lippe-Biesterfeld.

Life

Charles Frederick Augustus was the last Lord of Biesterfeld. During his reign, he had the manor's brewery moved from Schwalenberg to Biestereld and added a distillery, investing 6000 taler in this endeavour. In 1763, he constructed a hunting lodge in the

Sachsenwald The Sachsenwald () is a forest near Hamburg, Germany. It is an unincorporated area in the amt Hohe Elbgeest. It derives its name (which means 'Saxon woods' in English) from being located in the former Duchy of Saxe-Lauenburg, earlier also called ...

forest, near Hamburg, named

after himself. The nearby village was later renamed after the hunting lodge.Hanswilhelm Haefs: ''Ortsnamen und Ortsgeschichten in Schleswig-Holstein: zunebst dem reichhaltigen slawischen Ortsnamenmaterial und den dänischen Einflüssen auf Fehmarn und Lauenburg, Helgoland und Nordfriesland. Woraus sich Anmerkungen zur Landesgeschichte ergeben'', Books on Demand, Norderstedt 2004, , p. 105 However, the hunting lodge was demolished in 1859 to make room for a guest house.

Otto von Bismarck Otto, Prince of Bismarck, Count of Bismarck-Schönhausen, Duke of Lauenburg (, ; 1 April 1815 – 30 July 1898), born Otto Eduard Leopold von Bismarck, was a conservative German statesman and diplomat. From his origins in the upper class of J ...

was granted the

as a gratification for the foundation of the German Empire in 1871. He expanded the guest house to a castle, which was destroyed during World War II. The new manor house that took its place is still named ''Friedrichsruh Castle'' and home to the current Prince Bismarck. The manor house and farm at Biesterfeld were demolished around 1820.

Marriage and issue

Count Charles Frederick Augustus married on 7 May 1732 with Countess Barbara Eleonore of

Solms-Baruth Solms-Baruth was a Lower Lusatian state country, from 16th century until 1945. History The House of Solms had its origins at Solms, Hesse, and ruled several of the many minor states of the Holy Roman Empire. These lost their independence in the G ...

(30 October 1707 – 16 June 1744). They had the following children: * Wilhelmine Louise Constantine (15 June 1733 – 18 February 1766) : married Count Seyfried of Promnitz (1734-1760), the son of Count

Erdmann II of Promnitz Erdmann II, Count von Promnitz (born 22 August 1683 in Sorau, Electorate of Saxony (now Żary, Poland); died: 7 September 1745 at the forest castle near Żary) was Lord of Żary (german: Sorau) and Trzebiel (german: Triebel) in Lower Lusatia, an ...

: married secondly Count John Christian of

(1733-1800) * Simon Rudolph Ferdinand (6 October 1734 – 23 May 1739) * Charles Ernest Casimir (2 November 1735 – 19 November 1810) : married Countess Ferdinande of

Bentheim-Tecklenburg Bentheim-Tecklenburg was a German county based in the region around Tecklenburg in northern North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. History Bentheim-Tecklenburg emerged as a partition of the County of Bentheim in 1277, and was partitioned between it ...

(1734-1779) * Lippisches Landhaus Oberkassel

Frederick William (25 January 1737 – July 31, 1803) : married Elisabeth Johanna, Edle von Meinertzhagen (1752-1811) who inherited a small manor house at

Oberkassel, Bonn Oberkassel is a suburb in the Bonn municipal district of Beuel and lies on the right bank of the Rhine on the edge of the Siebengebirge mountains. Oberkassel has about 7,200 inhabitants. History In 1914, workers in a quarry detected a grave w ...

, where the couple moved in 1770, and which would become the home to the Lippe-Biesterfeld family for the following 209 years * Marie Wilhelmine Henriette (5 December 1740 – 19 April 1741) * Henry Louis (21 April 1743 – 16 September 1794) : married Elisabeth Kellner (1765-1794), who was made Countess of Lippe-Falkenflucht in 1790 * Marie Barbara Eleonore (June 16, 1744 – June 16, 1776) : married Count William of Schaumburg-Lippe (1724-1777) * Ferdinand John Benjamin (June 16, 1744 – April 23, 1772) : married Countess Wilhelmine of Schönburg-Lichtenstein (1746-1819)

Ancestry

References

* Willy Gerking: ''Die Grafen zur Lippe-Biesterfeld,'' 2001

External links

Entry at geneanet.org

Footnotes

{{DEFAULTSORT:Frederick Charles Augustus, Count of Lippe House of Lippe Counts of Lippe-Biesterfeld 1706 births 1781 deaths 18th-century German people