Amalie Wirths

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Amalie Charlotte Auguste Wirths

Amalie Charlotte Auguste Wirths (born September 7, 1785 in Adorf , † September 29, 1852 in Gaildorf ) was a daughter of Prince Waldeck's miner Johann Reinhard Wirths from Bergheim and became Countess of Waldeck-Limpurg through marriage and later civil status .

Marriage and consequences

On June 17, 1809 she married Georg Friedrich Karl , the youngest son of Count Josias II von Waldeck-Bergheim from the count's branch line of the Princes of Waldeck and Pyrmont and his wife Christine zu Ysenburg-Büdingen . Because of this improper marriage, Georg had to renounce all of his rights in the Principality of Waldeck. In 1811 he entered the service of King Friedrich I of Württemberg , who appointed him bailiff of Heilbronn and in 1812 of Stuttgart . In 1816 Georg acquired the shares of his siblings Karl (1778-1849) and Karoline (1782-1820) in the rule of Limpurg-Gaildorf-Solms-Assenheim around Gaildorf in Württemberg and then called himself Count von Waldeck-Pyrmont and Limpurg-Gaildorf. During the Württemberg constitutional struggle from 1815 to 1819, he fell out of favor with King Friedrich I and his successor Wilhelm I , was dismissed from civil service and in 1817 expelled from Stuttgart. He then moved with his wife into the old castle in Gaildorf. In August 1819, King Wilhelm I confirmed the status of his lordship, now called Waldeck-Limpurg , to him.

Countess of Waldeck-Limpurg

The couple had no children. After Georg's death in 1826, his widow, who had meanwhile been raised to Countess von Waldeck-Limpurg, followed him in all possessions by virtue of the inheritance statute he had issued. She built the Villa Waldeck in Gaildorf in 1846, which after several renovations became the New Castle and today's town hall of Gaildorf.

Death and succession

After Amalie's death in 1852 Waldeck-Limpurg came by inheritance to Georg's nephew Richard von Waldeck-Bergheim (* December 26, 1835, † December 5, 1905), son of his brother Karl, who had become Count of Waldeck-Bergheim in 1829.

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SURNAME Wirths, Amalie
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wirths, Amalie Charlotte Auguste; Waldeck-Limpurg, Amalie Charlotte Auguste von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Countess of Waldeck-Limpurg
DATE OF BIRTH September 7, 1785
PLACE OF BIRTH Bergheim
DATE OF DEATH September 29, 1852
Place of death Gaildorf