Alexandrine of Baden
Alexandrine von Baden (born December 6, 1820 in Karlsruhe , † December 20, 1904 at Callenberg Castle ), with full name Alexandrine Luise Amalie Friederike Elisabeth Sophie, was sovereign in the Duchy of Saxony-Coburg-Gotha and sister-in-law of Queen Victoria by marriage .
origin
Alexandrine was born as the eldest daughter of the Hereditary Prince and later Grand Duke Leopold von Baden from the morganatic line of the House of Baden and Princess Sophie Wilhelmine von Holstein-Gottorp , daughter of the Swedish King Gustav IV Adolf .
Life
On May 3, 1842, she married the Hereditary Prince and later Duke Ernst II of the Coburg dynasty , the House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, in Karlsruhe . The marriage of the two remained childless.
Her husband, Duke Ernst II., Despite his popularity among the population, did not achieve the sympathy that Duchess Alexandrine received. She supported many charitable institutions with donations, such as the Ernst Foundation for Students in Need and the Ernst Alexandrinen Widow Foundation .
The former Ernst-Alexandrinen-Volksbad in Coburg goes back to Alexandrine , one of the first public baths in a German medium- sized town , for which she bequeathed the town 120,000 marks and which was opened three years after her death in August 1907. A grammar school in Coburg also bears her name, the Alexandrinum grammar school . It was founded by her as an all-girls school and funded by the Alexandrinen School Foundation. In her will she let a total of 620,000 marks from her private fortune benefit the "welfare of the people".
Duchess Alexandrine was involved in the Red Cross in caring for the wounded during the German War and the Franco-German War . For this she was awarded the Bavarian Order of Theresa and the Prussian Order of Louisen . In 1862 she fell ill on a trip to Egypt, treated by the doctor Theodor Bilharz , who infected himself and died.
Alexandrine is the only Coburg duchess to whom the Coburg citizens erected a monument with her bust . The fountain is located in front of the preserved portico of the former public bath.
She has her final resting place in the ducal mausoleum on the Coburg cemetery on Glockenberg .
ancestors
| Friedrich Hereditary Prince of Baden (1703–1732) | |||||||||||||
| Karl Friedrich Grand Duke of Baden (1728–1811) | |||||||||||||
| Anna of Nassau-Dietz-Oranien (1710–1777) | |||||||||||||
| Leopold Grand Duke of Baden (1790-1852) | |||||||||||||
| Baron Ludwig Heinrich Philipp Geyer von Geyersberg | |||||||||||||
| Luise Karoline von Hochberg (1767–1820) | |||||||||||||
| Maximiliana Christina, b. Countess von Sponeck | |||||||||||||
| Alexandrine of Baden | |||||||||||||
| Gustav III King of Sweden (1746–1792) | |||||||||||||
| Gustav IV Adolf King of Sweden (1778–1837) | |||||||||||||
| Sophie of Denmark (1746–1813) | |||||||||||||
| Sophie of Sweden (1801-1865) | |||||||||||||
| Karl Ludwig von Baden (1755–1801) | |||||||||||||
| Friederike von Baden (1781–1826) | |||||||||||||
| Amalie of Hessen-Darmstadt (1754–1832) | |||||||||||||
literature
- Getraude Bachmann: From the life of the Duchess Alexandrine of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, born Princess of Baden. In: Yearbook of the Coburger Landesstiftung 39 (1994) , pp. 1–34, ISSN 0084-8808 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Harald Sandner: Das Haus Sachsen-Coburg and Gotha 1826 to 2001. A documentation for the 175th anniversary of the parent company in words and pictures . Druck- und Verlagsanstalt Neue Presse, Coburg 2001, ISBN 3-00-008525-4 , p. 321.
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Alexandrine of Baden |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Alexandrine Luise von Baden (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Baden nobles |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 6, 1820 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Karlsruhe |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 20, 1904 |
| Place of death | Callenberg Castle |