Christiana of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg

Christiana von Sachsen-Merseburg was a redirect to this article. For the princess with the similar name, see Christiane von Sachsen-Merseburg .

Christiana von Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg (born September 22, 1634 in Copenhagen ; † May 20, 1701 in Delitzsch Palace ), often also called Christiane, was Duchess of Saxony from 1650 through her marriage to Christian I of Saxony-Merseburg Merseburg .

Life

Christiana was the fourth daughter, and thus the ninth of 15 children, of Duke Philip of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg from his marriage to Sophie Hedwig von Sachsen-Lauenburg in Copenhagen. She received training and education from the widowed and childless Crown Princess of Denmark and Norway, Magdalena Sibylla von Sachsen , at her widow's residence at Nykøbing Castle ( Nykøbing on Falster ).

At the age of 16, she married Christian I of Saxony-Merseburg, the third son of Elector Johann Georg I of Saxony and his second wife Magdalena Sibylle of Prussia, on November 19, 1650 as part of a double wedding in the Dresden Palace . At the same time, Christiana's older sister Sophie Hedwig married Christian's younger brother Moritz . On the occasion of the two weddings there were numerous court ballets , tournaments, pageants, theater performances and fireworks spectacles in Dresden for four weeks .

The marriage of Christiana and Christian I had eleven children:

• Magdalena Sophia (born October 19, 1651 in Dresden, † March 29, 1675 in Merseburg), Princess of Saxony-Merseburg
• Johann Georg (born December 4, 1652 in Merseburg, † January 3, 1654 in Merseburg), Hereditary Prince of Saxony-Merseburg
• Christian II (born November 19, 1653 in Merseburg, † October 20, 1694 in Merseburg), Duke of Saxony-Merseburg ∞ Erdmuth Dorothea of ​​Saxony-Zeitz
• August (born February 15, 1655 in Merseburg, † March 27, 1715 in Zörbig), Duke of Saxony-Merseburg-Zörbig ∞ Hedwig Eleonore of Mecklenburg-Güstrow
• stillborn son (* / † February 1, 1656 in Merseburg), Prince of Saxony-Merseburg
• Philipp (born October 26, 1657 in Merseburg, † July 1, 1690 in Fleurus), Duke of Saxe-Merseburg-Lauchstädt ∞ (I) Eleonore Sophia of Saxe-Weimar ; ∞ (II) Luise Elisabeth von Württemberg-Oels
• Christiane (born June 1, 1659 in Merseburg, † March 13, 1679 in Eisenberg), Princess of Saxony-Merseburg ∞ Christian, Duke of Saxony-Eisenberg
• Sophie Hedwig (born August 4, 1660 in Merseburg, † August 2, 1686 in Saalfeld), Princess of Saxe-Merseburg ∞ Johann Ernst, Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld
• Heinrich (born September 2, 1661 in Merseburg, † July 28, 1738 in Doberlug), Duke of Saxony-Merseburg-Spremberg (later of all of Saxony-Merseburg) ∞ Elisabeth of Mecklenburg-Güstrow
• Moritz (born October 29, 1662 in Merseburg, † April 21, 1664 in Merseburg), Prince of Saxony-Merseburg
• Sibylle Marie (born October 28, 1667 in Merseburg, † October 9, 1693 in Bernstadt), Princess of Saxony-Merseburg ∞ Christian Ulrich I, Duke of Württemberg-Oels-Bernstadt

After the death of her husband in 1691 to Christiana moved to her Wittum in Delitzsch back, she in 1688 in exchange for the castle Sangerhausen as a jointure had received. The Delitzsch Castle had previously been converted into a widow's residence, but when it moved in on May 31, 1692, the work had not yet been completed. Christiana only had the baroque garden next to the palace laid out after she moved in.

literature

• Ute Essegern: Princesses at the Electoral Saxon court. Concepts of life and life courses between family, court and politics in the first half of the 17th century . Leipziger Universitätsverlag, Leipzig 2007, ISBN 978-3-86583-074-6 ( Writings on Saxon History and Folklore . Volume 19), pp. 383–385 (excerpts online ).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Ute Essegern: Fürstinnen am kursächsischen Hof , p. 383 ( online ).
2. ↑ Ute Essegern: Fürstinnen am kursächsischen Hof , p. 325 ( online ).
3. ^ Uta Deppe: The festival culture at the Dresden court of Johann Georg II of Saxony (1660–1679) . Ludwig, Kiel 2006, ISBN 3-933598-94-X ( Bau + Kunst. Schleswig-Holsteinische Schriften zur Kunstgeschichte . Volume 13), p. 14 ( reading sample as PDF online ).
4. ↑ Christiana zu Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg on thepeerage.com , accessed on August 20, 2015.
5. ↑ Ute Essegern: Fürstinnen am kursächsischen Hof , p. 416 ( online ).