List of the buried in the Wettiner crypt of the Catholic Court Church

The Catholic Court Church, since 1980 Cathedral Ss. Trinity

The list of those buried in the Wettin crypt of the Catholic Court Church gives an overview of all members of the Albertine line of the House of Wettin and their members of European rulers who were connected by marriage and who found their final resting place in the crypt of the Catholic Court Church in Dresden .

history

Saxony has been Protestant since the Reformation . The ruling princes of the Albertine line of the Wettin family since Duke Heinrich found their final resting place in Freiberg Cathedral of St. Mary . Only when Friedrich August I converted to Catholicism in 1697 ended this tradition. In Dresden, the first Catholic court church was built in the empty Klengel opera house at the castle , in which a family crypt was also laid out. The first son of Friedrich August II and Maria Josepha found his final resting place here in 1721.

North-facing floor plan of the Catholic Court Church; light blue the sacrament chapel, dark blue the cruciform chapel

The Catholic Court Church with grave vaults was built from 1739 to 1751 and the donor's crypt was laid out under the sacrament chapel. Just four days later, the coffins of the three deceased children of the electoral couple were transferred to the crypt of the Catholic Court Church. From 1763, burials took place in the Great Crypt under the northwest aisle. In 1823, the master builder Christian Friedrich Schuricht expanded the church's crypt so that a total of three crypts was created. The fourth, New Crypt, was finally laid out around 1900 under the south-east aisle. A total of 49 members of the Albertine line of the Wettin family as well as their spouses and children found their final resting place in the Wettin crypt of the court church. The four crypts are connected to each other with corridors.

The most recent crypt to date is accessible from the New Crypt, which is not one of the Wettiner crypts: Since the Catholic Court Church was elevated to a cathedral in 1980, it has since served as a burial place for the bishops of the Dresden-Meißen diocese . In 1988, the bishop's crypt was therefore laid out, in which Gerhard Schaffran found his final resting place in a wall grave in 1996 . The bishop's crypt has a small altar.

During the Elbe floods in August 2002 , the crypts of the Catholic Court Church were also under water. The water washed the wooden coffins from the sarcophagi; only the heart capsule of Elector Friedrich August I remained undamaged. The crypts and sarcophagi were renovated from September 2003 for around 480,000 euros and returned to their intended use in March 2004. The Wettiner crypt can only be visited as part of a guided tour.

The crypts

The donor crypt

The New Crypt

Founder's crypt or old crypt

The donor's crypt is located under the sacrament chapel in the south of the church. The rulers from 1694 to 1827 found their final resting place in it. A special feature is the capsule with the heart of Friedrich August I, which stands in a niche in the crypt. His body was buried in the royal tomb on the Wawel in Krakow .

There are a total of nine coffins and the capsule in this crypt, including the three children's coffins from the donor couple, the oldest coffins in the Wettin crypt. They were transferred from the first Catholic court church in Dresden in 1751. All coffins are simply made.

Royal tomb

The regents of the period from 1830 to 1873 rest in the royal crypt under the cross chapel of the church. With only four coffins, it is the smallest room in the Wettin crypt, but the sarcophagi are the most ornate. They were made of bronze, weigh five tons each and are made in the neo-baroque style with putti and rich decorations. The representative sarcophagus of King John is adorned with the owl of Pallas Athene , a reference to his scholarship. The sarcophagus was cast in Lauchhammer in 1875 based on a model by Schäfer and Roch .

New crypt

The kings of Saxony from 1873 to 1918, as well as the sons of the last Saxon king, rest in the New Crypt under the southeast side aisle. There are a total of ten sarcophagi in the crypt. The youngest grave in the Wettiner crypt is also among them: Georg von Sachsen died in 1943.

The New Crypt has an altar made of white marble. It is located in a niche on the front wall of the crypt; Front wall and niche are decorated with a glass mosaic in the Beuron style .

Great tomb

The coffins of members of the electoral and royal dynasty from the period 1763 to 1898 are in the Great Crypt under the north-western aisle. A total of 25 coffins were displayed.

On the front wall of the crypt there is a simple sandstone altar with a crucifix, which was also made of sandstone.

Legend

• No .: The numbering is intended to facilitate the assignment of individual persons in the last column.
• Location : Indicates the vault in which the person was buried.
• Name : Indicates the name of the person.
• Portrait : Shows a picture of the person.
• Life dates : Indicates the life dates of the person. The column can be sorted by the date of death.
• Other : Provides further information about the person, e.g. B. Function, status and relationship within the electoral or royal family.

list

No.	location	Surname	Portrait	Life dates	Remarks
[1]	Donors' Crypt , Old Crypt	Elector Friedrich August I.		1670-1733	Epithet "the Strong", Elector of Saxony, as Augustus II. King of Poland, in the tomb is only the heart, his body was in the royal crypt at the Wawel in Krakow buried
[2]	Donors' Crypt , Old Crypt	Elector Friedrich August II.		1696-1763	Son of [1] and Christiane Eberhardine of Brandenburg-Bayreuth , Elector of Saxony, as August III. King of Poland, founder and builder of the Catholic Court Church
[3]	Donors' Crypt , Old Crypt	Maria Josepha of Austria		1699-1757	Wife of [2], daughter of Joseph I , Archduchess of Austria, Electress of Saxony and Queen of Poland, founder of the Court Church
[4]	Donors' Crypt , Old Crypt	Friedrich August	-	1720-1721	Son of [2] and [3], Royal Elector Prince of Saxony and Prince of Poland
[5]	Donors' Crypt , Old Crypt	Joseph	-	1721-1728	Son of [2] and [3], Royal Elector Prince of Saxony and Prince of Poland
[6]	Donors' Crypt , Old Crypt	Maria Margareta	-	1727-1734	Daughter of [2] and [3], royal electoral princess of Saxony and princess of Poland
[7]	Donors' Crypt , Old Crypt	Elector Friedrich Christian		1722-1763	Son of [2] and [3], Elector of Saxony
[8th]	Donors' Crypt , Old Crypt	Maria Antonia of Bavaria		1724-1780	Wife of [7], Electress of Saxony, patron
[9]	Donors' Crypt , Old Crypt	King Friedrich August I.		1750-1827	Nickname "the righteous", son of [7] and [8], as Friedrich August III. Elector of Saxony, from 1806 as Friedrich August I, first King of Saxony
[10]	Donors' Crypt , Old Crypt	Amalie von Pfalz-Zweibrücken-Birkenfeld-Bischweiler		1752-1828	Wife of [9], Electress of Saxony, from 1806 first Queen of Saxony
[11]	Royal tomb	King Friedrich August II.		1797-1854	Son of [33] and [34], from 1836 King of Saxony
[12]	Royal tomb	Maria Anna of Bavaria		1805-1877	Wife of [11], daughter of King Maximilian I Joseph of Bavaria , Queen of Saxony
[13]	Royal tomb	King Johann		1801-1873	The pseudonym "Philalethes", son of [33] and [34], brother of [11], from 1854 King of Saxony, translated Dante's Divine Comedy into German
[14]	Royal tomb	Amalie Auguste of Bavaria		1801-1877	Wife of [13], daughter of King Maximilian I Joseph of Bavaria , from 1854 Queen of Saxony
[15]	New crypt	King Albert		1828-1902	Son of [13] and [14], from 1873 King of Saxony
[16]	New crypt	Carola of Saxony		1833-1907	Wife of [15], the last Queen of Saxony
[17]	New crypt	King George		1832-1904	Son of [13] and [14], brother of [15], married to [46], from 1902 King of Saxony
[18]	New crypt	King Friedrich August III.		1865-1932	Son of [17] and [46], last king of Saxony
[19]	New crypt	Mathilde		1863-1933	Daughter of [17] and [46], princess of Saxony
[20]	New crypt	Johann Georg		1869-1938	Son of [17] and [46], brother of [18], art collector, writer and politician
[21]	New crypt	Maria Isabella of Württemberg		1871-1904	Wife of [20], daughter of Duke Philip of Württemberg
[22]	New crypt	Albert		1875-1900	Son of [17] and [46], Duke of Saxony
[23]	New crypt	Crown Prince Georg		1893-1943	Son of [18] and Luise of Austria-Tuscany , last Crown Prince of Saxony, Roman Catholic priest, Jesuit, drowned in a bathing accident
[24]	New crypt	Sophie of Luxembourg		1902-1941	first wife of Ernst Heinrich von Sachsen , a brother of [23]; Ernst Heinrich von Sachsen rests in the Princely Hohenzollern house crypt in Sigmaringen - Hedingen
[25]	Great tomb	Franz Xaver		1730-1806	Son of [2] and [3], older brother of [7], Royal Prince of Poland and Prince of Saxony, Count of Lausitz, from 1763 to 1768 instead of the minor Crown Prince ([7]) Administrator of Saxony
[26]	Great tomb	Maria Elisabeth		1736-1818	Daughter of [2] and [3], Princess of Poland and Saxony, Lady of the Star Cross
[27]	Great tomb	Maria Kunigunde		1740-1826	Daughter of [2] and [3], princess of Poland, Lithuania and Saxony, last princess abbess of the free worldly imperial monasteries Essen and Thorn
[28]	Great tomb	Karl		1752-1781	Son of [7] and [8], Prince of Saxony
[29]	Great tomb	Joseph	-	1754-1763	Son of [7] and [8], Prince of Saxony
[30]	Great tomb	King Anton		1755-1836	Nickname "der Gütige", son of [7] and [8], from 1827 King of Saxony
[31]	Great tomb	Marie Carolina of Savoy		1764-1782	from 1781 first wife of [30], Princess of Saxony
[32]	Great tomb	Maria Theresa of Austria		1767-1827	second wife of [30], Archduchess of Austria, Queen of Saxony
[33]	Great tomb	Maximilian		1759-1838	Son of [7] and [8], renounced the throne of the Kingdom of Saxony for his son (11)
[34]	Great tomb	Caroline of Bourbon-Parma		1770-1804	Wife of [33], mother of two kings ([11], [13])
[35]	Great tomb	Maria Anna		1761-1820	Daughter of [7] and [8], princess of Saxony
[36]	Great tomb	Maria Augusta		1782-1863	Daughter of [9] and [10], first Saxon princess, heir to the Polish throne
[37]	Great tomb	Maria Ludovica	-	1795-1798	Daughter of [30] and [32]
[38]	Great tomb	Friedrich August	-	1796-1796	Son of [30] and [32]
[39]	Great tomb	Maria Johanna	-	1798-1799	Daughter of [30] and [32]
[40]	Great tomb	Maria Theresa	-	1799-1799	Daughter of [30] and [32]
[41]	Great tomb	Amalie		1794-1870	Daughter of [33] and [34], Princess of Saxony, popular comedy author (pseudonyms Amalie Heiter and A. Serena )
[42]	Great tomb	Karoline Ferdinande of Austria		1801-1832	Wife of [11], Archduchess of Austria, Princess of Saxony
[43]	Great tomb	Maria Augusta		1827-1857	Daughter of [13] and [14], princess of Saxony
[44]	Great tomb	serious		1831-1847	Son of [13] and [14]
[45]	Great tomb	Sidonia		1834-1862	Daughter of [13] and [14], princess of Saxony
[46]	Great tomb	Maria Anna of Portugal		1843-1884	Wife of [17], Princess of Braganza and Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Infanta of Portugal
[47]	Great tomb	Marie Johanna Amalie	-	1860-1861	Daughter of [17] and [46]
[48]	Great tomb	Elisabeth	-	1862-1863	Daughter of [17] and [46]
[49]	Great tomb	Maria Alix Carola	-	1898-1898	Daughter of [18] and Luise of Austria-Tuscany

See also

• Tombs of European monarchs

literature

• The crypt of the Wettins . In: Georg Dehio (Hrsg.): Handbook of German art monuments . Dresden . Updated edition. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich and Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-422-03-110-3 , pp. 126–127.
• The Wettiner crypts . In: Jürgen Helfricht : Dresden and its churches . Evangelische Verlagsanstalt, Leipzig 2005, pp. 29–30.
• Gudrun Schlechte: The crypt of the Saxon royal house Wettin in the cathedral Sankt Trinitatis - Hofkirche zu Dresden . Janos Stekovics, Dößel 2004, ISBN 3-89923-055-8 .
• The Wettiner crypt . In: Siegfried Seifert : Catholic Court Church Dresden . Schnell & Steiner, Munich 1990, pp. 21-22.
• The Wettiner crypt . In: Siegfried Seifert, Clemens Ullmann (ed.): 250 years of the Catholic Court Church Dresden, cathedral of the diocese of Dresden-Meißen . benno, Leipzig 2000, ISBN 3-7462-1392-4 , pp. 44-45.

Web links

Commons : Wettiner-Gruft  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• All sarcophagi of the Wettin crypt are shown

Individual evidence

1. ↑ See St. Trinitatis Cathedral (formerly Catholic Court Church). Section Crypt of Saint Trinitatis Cathedral . In: dresden-und-sachsen.de. Retrieved May 3, 2017 . 
2. ↑ Cf. Stefan Locke: Family scandal in the Wettiner crypt . In: sz-online, March 9, 2004, archive copy ( memento from September 14, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ).
3. ^ Jürgen Helfricht: Dresden and its churches . Evangelische Verlagsanstalt, Leipzig 2005, p. 29.
4. ^ Siegfried Seifert, Clemens Ullmann (ed.): 250 years of the Catholic Court Church Dresden, cathedral of the diocese of Dresden-Meißen . benno, Leipzig 2000, p. 45.
5. ^ Siegfried Seifert: Catholic Court Church Dresden . Schnell & Steiner, Munich 1990, p. 22.

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