Annette von Menz

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Annette von Menz - unknown artist (1812–1815)

Anna Maria Annette von Menz (born January 30, 1796 in Bozen ; † July 1, 1869 in Oberbozen ) was the richest heiress of Bozen in 1811. She has found its way into Tyrolean historiography as the "French bride" . There are numerous stories about her relationship with the adjutant of the Italian viceroy .

Life

Annette von Menz was the only daughter of Anton Melchior von Menz and Maria Anna von Gumer. The Menz and Gumer were among the most respected and richest houses in Bolzano. 1811 Annette von Menz at the age of fifteen years for an orphan . Menz-Gumer'sche assets included today's Palais Toggenburg , Sigmundskron Castle , the Haselburg , the Gerstburg Residence , Rafenstein Castle , a summer cottage in Maria Himmelfahrt (today Toggenburg), the Palais Menz in the Mustergasse and another stately home atFruit square , some commercial buildings in the city, many Meierhöfe and shares in many trading companies .

The Gumer and Menz families (1786). On the right the parents of Annette von Menz. In the background the Gumer'sche Sommerfrischhaus in Oberbozen - portrait of Martin Knoller (1725–1804)

In the years 1810-1814 Bolzano belonged temporarily to the Napoleonic Kingdom of Italy . In 1811 the news of the impending marriage of the city's richest heiress to a French officer aroused the hearts of the Bolzano citizens. The groom was adjutant of the wing of the Italian viceroy Eugène de Beauharnais , the stepson of Emperor Napoleon .

His planned marriage to the only fifteen-year-old Annette von Menz was in line with Napoleonic policy that members and supporters of the imperial family should marry into the highest possible families in the occupied country in order to make allies and relatives of the occupiers .

But the family council , which was responsible for the girl and the millions of inheritance in addition to the actual guardian , managed to prevent the marriage. Out of anger about this, the viceroy had the lawyer for the family council, Franz von Plattner, arrested and three other members of the family council removed from their public offices. It was not until March 1812 that the defendants were acquitted.

On May 6, 1816, Annette von Menz married Carlo Ritter de Panzoldi, who was born in Rovereto , Edler de Monte-Olivo (Karl von Panzoldi; 1786-1816). Carlo de Panzoldi's father was raised to the rank of imperial knight in 1790 by the Palatinate-Bavarian Elector Karl Theodor in the imperial vicariate with the predicate Edler de Monte-Olivo . In 1816 Carlo was 30 years old and worked as a tax and mortgage administrator in Bozen. Presumably he got into this position through the mediation of his father's cousin Girolamo Gaetano, who worked as a lottery official in Bolzano during the Italian government and owned a small estate in Bolzano. Later this uncle was a commercial councilor in Trento .

After her husband died after only three months of marriage, Annette von Menz married Count Ludwig von Sarnthein on April 18, 1819 . This marriage, which lasted 48 years until his death in 1867, had seven children.

Gräflich Sarnthein-Toggenburg resting place in the Bozen cemetery , founded by Annette von Menz and her second husband, Count Ludwig von Sarnthein. In their memory, on the right and left of the Jesus statue, Saints Ludwig and Anna

The Bolzano writer Hubert Hager von Strobele ( pseudonym : Walter Plangger) processed the affair with Annette von Menz in his novel Die Franzosenbraut , published in 1939 .

literature

  • Josef Hirn: From Bozen's French times. In: Contributions to the modern history of Austria , V. Heft. Innsbruck 1910.
  • Anton von Lutterotti: Annette von Menz, the "French bride". In: Bozen during the French period 1797–1814. Catalog. Museumsverein Bozen, Bozen 1984, pp. 27–33.
  • Valentine Kaufmann: Anna von Menz from Bozen (1796–1869). Story a woman - story of a city. Thesis. University of Innsbruck, 2007.
  • Bozen Chamber of Commerce: The Menz family and the city of Bozen. Catalog. Bolzano 2009, OCLC 650437639 .
  • Siglinde Clementi (ed.): Between participation and exclusion. Tyrol around 1800: Four women's biographies. Wagner, Innsbruck 2010.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Gustav Otruba :  Menz, from. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 17, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1994, ISBN 3-428-00198-2 , p. 100 ( digitized version ).
  2. ^ Anton von Lutterotti: Annette von Menz, the "French bride". In: Bozen during the French period 1797–1814. Catalog. Museum Association Bozen, Bozen 1984, p. 28.
  3. ↑ Christine Mumelter: Joseph Streiter 1804–1873: A forgotten mayor? Athesia, Bozen 1998, p. 4 .
  4. ↑ Christine Plieger: Anna Menz. From the French bride to the independent woman. In: South Tyrol in words and pictures. 4th quarter 2010, p. 27.
  5. ^ Panzoldi de Monte Olivo Joseph Anton, post office officer at Rovoredo  in the German Digital Library
  6. ^ Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels , Adelslexikon Volume X, Volume 119 of the complete series, Limburg an der Lahn 1999, p. 154 f.
  7. ↑ a b Siglinde Clementi: Between participation and exclusion: Tyrol around 1800: four women's biographies. 2010. books.google.de
  8. ^ Valentine Kaufmann: Anna von Menz from Bozen (1796–1869). Story a woman - story of a city. Thesis. University of Innsbruck, 2007, p. 85.
  9. ↑ agso.uni-graz.at
personal data
SURNAME Menz, Annette von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Menz, Anna von; French Bride; Menz, Anna Maria Annette von; Sarnthein, Anna von; Sarnthein, Anna Countess
SHORT DESCRIPTION wealthy heiress
DATE OF BIRTH January 30, 1796
PLACE OF BIRTH Bolzano
DATE OF DEATH July 1, 1869
Place of death Oberbozen