Christiane von Preysing

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Christiane Maximiliane Countess von Preysing -Lichtenegg-Moos , b. von und zu Arco-Zinneberg , (born November 27, 1852 in Munich , † September 30, 1923 in Munich) was a co-founder of the Marian Girls' Protection Association and the first Catholic station mission .

Christiane Countess Preysing; archived in the Ida-Seele archive

Live and act

She was the 13th and youngest child of Count Maximilian Joseph Bernhard von und zu Arco-Zinneberg and his wife Leopoldine, nee. Countess of Waldburg-Zeil-Trauchburg . The countess received the training that was customary for girls of her class at the time, she received private lessons and attended elegant girls' boarding schools in Switzerland and Belgium. In 1878 she married Johann Conrad Graf von Preysing-Lichtenegg-Moos . The marriage resulted in a total of ten children.

Through her confessor, the Capuchin Father Cyprian Fröhlich , the countess received the first suggestions to get involved in the Seraphic Works of Love he founded . Looking back, the countess wrote:

The spark of apostolic love that sparked the thought in him also kindled in our hearts: We did not want to fail when we were called to do guardianship services, to protect souls from disaster, even if only to save one .

Together with Luise Fogt , Marie von Hohenhausen, Wilhelmine Angstwurm, Pauline Kolb, Leopoldine Freiin von Schrenck, Franziska Freifrau von Soden-Fraunhofen a. a. In 1895, the aristocrat founded the Marian Girls ' Protection Association in Munich (today: IN VIA Catholic Girls' Social Work ), which was under the protection of Our Lady of Good Counsel . The newly founded association offered young girls and women in the big city protection and help in order to protect them from dangers in belief and custom . The countess took over the post of the first chairwoman of the association. She soon realized the need to establish a station mission. As a result , the first Catholic train station mission was launched in Munich in 1897, with the decisive help of Ellen Ammann , which granted pastoral care and protection to women and girls traveling alone . Furthermore, the noblewoman Ellen Ammann supported the development and expansion of social and charitable training courses for women and young girls .

In 1903 the Countess's husband died and the tragedy of her life continued: in 1911 she had lost the youngest and in 1913 the oldest son; During the First World War she had to sacrifice two more sons and afterwards three daughters died in quick succession . Another son died shortly after her own death. Only two daughters could survive the mother longer. Son Johann Georg had married the Bavarian Princess Gundelinde in his second marriage. The only son who emerged from this connection, Johann Caspar, died in 1940 at the age of 21.

Works

  • The Lauretanian litany as May devotion, Regensburg 1918
  • A quarter of a century Marian girls protection association in Bavaria, in: Bayerische Caritasblätter 1920, H. 5/6, S. 33-39

swell

  • Manuel Behringer: 100 years of social learning and teaching in Munich. From socially denominational training courses to the Catholic foundation college. - A contribution to the history of social work, Munich 2009 (unpublished diploma thesis)
  • Manfred Berger : Preysing-Lichtenegg-Moos, Christiane Maximiliane Gräfin, in: Hugo Maier (Ed.): Who is who der Sozialen Arbeit, Freiburg / Breisgau 1998, p. 479 f
  • Manfred Berger:  Preysing-Lichtenegg-Moos, Christiane Maximiliane Countess of. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 22, Bautz, Nordhausen 2003, ISBN 3-88309-133-2 , Sp. 1106-1111.  ( Article / beginning of article in Internet archive )
  • Marina Brüderle: On the history of the station mission in Germany - illustrated using the example of the city of Munich, Munich 2000 (unpublished thesis)
  • Gabriele Kranstedt: Migration and Mobility as Reflected in the Work of the Association of Catholic Girls' Protection Associations 1895–1945, Freiburg / Breisgau 2003, p. 612

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Preysing 19201920, p. 34
  2. ↑ cf. Brüderle 2000, p. 15 ff.
  3. ↑ http://www.invia.caritas.de/
  4. ↑ Kall 1983, p. 249
  5. ↑ Brüderle 2000, p. 78
  6. ↑ Behringer 2009, p. 9 ff.
  7. ↑ Kranstedt 2003, p. 612
personal data
SURNAME Preysing, Christiane von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Arco-Zinneberg, Christiane Maximiliane von und zu (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German co-founder of the Marian Girls' Protection Association and the first Catholic station mission
DATE OF BIRTH November 27, 1852
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich
DATE OF DEATH September 30, 1923
Place of death Munich