Franziska Batthyány

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Countess Franziska Batthyàny as a religious sister of the Cooperative of the Daughters of Christian Love of St. Vincent de Paul

Countess Franziska Batthyàny (born November 4, 1783 in Vienna , † October 10, 1861 in Pinkafeld ), née Countess Széchenyi, was a nobleman from the Hungarian magnate family Batthyány . She donated numerous buildings and the monastery in the Pinkafeld rule and was a composer.

Life

Father Franz Széchényi
Mother Julianna

Franziska Batthyány (also called Fanny) was born on November 4, 1783 as the daughter of the Hungarian nobleman Franz Széchényi and his wife Julianna (née Festetics ). Széchenyi was a politician and founder of the Hungarian National Library and the Hungarian National Museum . Her brother was István Széchenyi , the "greatest Hungarian". At the age of 19, she married the owner of the Pinkafeld estate, Count Nikolaus Batthyány (born June 23, 1774, † April 14, 1842) in 1802 . From then on she lived in Vienna and in Pinkafeld.

Father Franz moved with his family from Hungary to Vienna-Landstrasse in 1810 , where he ran a literary salon that was romantically and religiously oriented and became known as the Hofbauerkreis. Klemens Maria Hofbauer , the Redemptorist who was later canonized , as well as his friends and students such as the poet and pastor Zacharias Werner , the painters Leopold Kupelwieser and Eduard Steinle , Roman Sebastian Zängerle (1824 to 1848 bishop in Graz-Seckau) as well as the doctor and author of sacred works Johann Emanuel Veith got to know and appreciate her in her parents' house. From then on, impressed by Hofbauer, she confessed herself to the renewal of Christianity in the spirit of Klemens Maria Hofbauer through her personal attitude and her social and charitable work. The Countess invited numerous members of the Hofbauerkreis to her residence in Pinkafeld and so the Pinkafelder Palace often became a meeting point for Viennese Romantics and the cultural center of the community. Zacharias Werner, who became famous as a preacher in Vienna at the time of the Congress of Vienna , also preached in Pinkafeld. Numerous works of art, such as the saying written by Werner on the Pinkafelder Marian column, remind of this time. A regular guest in the castle and in the romantic circle was the Pinkafelder pastor Joseph Michael Weinhofer , who was a friend of the Countess . Weinhofer was a popular preacher and pastor at a time when the Pinkafelder population was ravaged by numerous fires and bands of robbers. The countess supported her subjects financially.

As a composer, Franziska Batthyàny was first seen in 1816 as an acquaintance of the Batthyànys, Dorothea von Schlegel, who asked her to set songs by the Regensburg cathedral preacher Franz Josef Weinzierls to music. In 1818 she composed the music for religious poems by the writer Anton Passy . She also set the song “I wake up early in the morning” to music, the text of which Zacharias Werner wrote in Pinkafeld. In the school of the monastery she founded, the countess gave singing lessons until her last years.

In 1835 she and her husband founded a chapel at the Pinkafelder cemetery . The chapel was built by the Viennese architect Carl Roesner , who is also part of the Countess's circle of friends. Roesner's friend Eduard Steinle painted the art-historically significant altarpiece and the predella for the chapel. After the death of her husband in 1842, she made the decision to go to the monastery. In 1851 she called the cooperative of the daughters of Christian love of St. Vincent von Paul to Pinkafeld from Graz, to which she founded the St. Vincent monastery with school, hospital and orphanage. On February 7, 1854, she herself entered the monastery she had founded as a novice , where she made her vows on February 2, 1860 and dedicated herself to the care of the elderly and the sick. Countess Franziska Batthyàny died on October 10, 1861 in Pinkafeld and was buried in the Pinkafelder cemetery .

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Herbert Zeman : The Austrian literature. Your profile at the turn of the 18th to the 19th century (1750–1830). (= Yearbook for Austrian Cultural History Volume 7.) Akademische Druck- und Verlagsanstalt , Vienna 1979, ISBN 3-201-01119-3 , p. 485.
personal data
SURNAME Batthyány, Franziska
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Széchenyi, Franziska (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austro-Hungarian nobles
DATE OF BIRTH November 4, 1783
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH October 10, 1861
Place of death Pinkafeld