Anna of Mecklenburg

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Anna, Duchess of Mecklenburg [-Schwerin], also: Anne (* April 7, 1865 in Schwerin ; † February 8, 1882 there ; full name: Anna Elisabeth Auguste Alexandrine ) was a princess of the grand ducal house of Mecklenburg-Schwerin .

Life

Anna was the fifth child of Grand Duke Friedrich Franz II. After the death of his first wife, Auguste Reuss zu Köstritz (1822–1862), he had married Anna von Hessen-Darmstadt in 1864 , the only daughter of Prince Karl von Hessen and bei Rhein ( 1809–1877) from his marriage to Elisabeth (1815–1885), daughter of Prince Wilhelm of Prussia .

Anna was the only child in this marriage because her mother died of puerperal fever after she was born, at the age of 21 . She grew up with her four half-siblings from her father's first marriage and in 1868 received a stepmother in Marie von Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt . From this third marriage of Friedrich Franz II. Four more children emerged, so that Anna had eight half-siblings from 1876.

She died 16 years old at a pneumonia . On February 13, 1882 she was buried in the grand ducal funeral chapel, the Holy Blood Chapel in the ambulatory of Schwerin Cathedral, with great sympathy from the population .

memory

Anna Hospital (2012)

In her memory, the Grand Duke and his third wife donated a large amount for a new building for the children 's hospital in Schwerin, which had been in existence since 1866 and which has now been named Anna Hospital .

Her court master, Luise von Kummer, published a portrait of life that had been published in five editions by 1890.

literature

  • Luise von Kummer: Anna, Duchess of Mecklenburg-Schwerin. A picture of life. Sandmeyer, Schwerin 1882.
  • Jürgen Hebert : The other Anna. In: Mecklenburg-Magazin (1992), issue 3, p. 11
  • Grete Grewolls: Who was who in Mecklenburg and Western Pomerania. The dictionary of persons . Hinstorff Verlag, Rostock 2011, ISBN 978-3-356-01301-6 , p. 236 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Actually the seventh, two sons from the first marriage of Friedrich Franz II. Died at an early age, see family list of the House of Mecklenburg
  2. ↑ Her Highness the Duchess Anna of Mecklenburg-Schwerin was buried. In: Mecklenburg advertisements from February 14, 1882
personal data
SURNAME Anna of Mecklenburg
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Mecklenburg, Anna Duchess zu (wrong name form)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Members of the grand ducal house of Mecklenburg-Schwerin
DATE OF BIRTH April 7, 1865
PLACE OF BIRTH Schwerin
DATE OF DEATH February 8, 1882
Place of death Schwerin