Anna Sophia of Pfalz-Zweibrücken-Birkenfeld

Anna Sophia of the Palatinate, abbess of Quedlinburg

Countess Palatine Anna Sophia von Zweibrücken-Birkenfeld (born April 2, 1619 in Birkenfeld , † September 1, 1680 in Quedlinburg ) was Anna Sophia I as the abbess of the imperial and free world monastery of Quedlinburg .

Life

Anna Sophia was a daughter of the Count Palatine and Duke Georg Wilhelm von Zweibrücken-Birkenfeld (1591–1669) from his first marriage to Countess Dorothea von Solms-Sonnenwalde (1586–1625).

On July 15, 1645, she was solemnly introduced as Anna Sophia I as Abbess of Quedlinburg. During her reign fell the end of the Thirty Years' War, at the end of which she still had to pay substantial contributions. She personally used herself to protect the monastery and the city during a visit to the headquarters of the general of the Swedish troops in Germany, Count Palatine Karl X. Gustav .

The abbess, described as spirited and ambitious, was able to consolidate the economic and financial situation of the monastery, which fell after the war, and she also made use of donations from the city council of Quedlinburg. Later she was often in conflict with the city council, but also with the patron of the monastery, Johann Georg II. Of Saxony , without whose knowledge Anna Sophia of Hessen-Darmstadt had been elected coadjutor of the monastery in 1677 . After the death of Anna Sophia I in 1680, she was also her successor as princess.

Individual evidence

↑ On the date, cf. the letter from Anna Dorothea von Sachsen-Weimar to her father Johann Ernst II von Sachsen-Weimar dated December 8, 1677 (ThHStA Weimar, FH A 358), in which this election is mentioned.

literature

Hermann Lorenz: Development of the Abbey and City of Quedlinburg . Magistrate, Quedlinburg 1922 (Quedlinburg history; 1).

Web links

Johann H. Fritsch: History of the former Reichsstift Quedlinburg. P. 33 ff.
Gottfried C. Voigt: History of the Quedlinburg Abbey. P. 445 ff.

predecessor	Office	Successor
Dorothea Sophie of Saxe-Altenburg	Abbess of Quedlinburg 1645–1680	Anna Sophia II of Hessen-Darmstadt

personal data
SURNAME	Anna Sophia of Pfalz-Zweibrücken-Birkenfeld
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Anna Sophia von Zweibrücken-Birkenfeld
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Abbess of the Quedlinburg Abbey
DATE OF BIRTH	April 2, 1619
PLACE OF BIRTH	Birch field
DATE OF DEATH	September 1, 1680
Place of death	Quedlinburg

[1] On the date, cf. the letter from Anna Dorothea von Sachsen-Weimar to her father Johann Ernst II von Sachsen-Weimar dated December 8, 1677 (ThHStA Weimar, FH A 358), in which this election is mentioned.