Packhaus Thedinghausen

Around 1855, Dr. Wilhelm Grimm had a small bell tower with a clock and a Turkish crescent placed on the packing house. Dr. Grimm had the moon installed in honour of his Turkish grandmother. He had never seen her, but was very touched by her fate and wanted to show his affection. Abbas Cachiana Kaefe Rhebisch was probably born in the Turkish town of Oszakow in 1722. The town was completely destroyed during the Russo-Turkish War. Prince Anton Ulrich of Brunswick, who was fighting on the Russian side as an officer, took Abbas with him to Petersburg as a spoil of war, where she was educated and baptized Anna Charlotte Rhebisch. Later, Prince Anton Ulrich took the Turkish girl to Blankenburg to make her available to his grandmother, Duchess Christine Louise, as a companion. Anna Charlotte soon won the Duchess's trust. In order to secure Anna Charlotte's future, the Duchess favored her marriage to the pastor Christian Moritz Grimm, the grandfather of Doctor Wilhelm Grimm. Unfortunately, the duchess died a few days before the wedding and court intrigues prevented the dowry from being paid out. Nevertheless, they married, but the young pastor's wife had to follow her husband to the Harz Mountains, where she led a life of privation with nine children. She died in 1766 at the age of 44.