Christina of Mecklenburg

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Christina zu Mecklenburg as Abbess of Gandersheim

Christina, Duchess of Mecklenburg (-Schwerin) (* August 8, 1639 , † June 30, 1693 in Gandersheim ) was a princess from the House of Mecklenburg-Schwerin . From 1681 to 1693 she was Christina II. Abbess of Gandersheim and thus imperial princess .

Life

Christina was the third child from the second marriage of Duke Adolf Friedrich von Mecklenburg-Schwerin to Marie Katharina (1616–1665), daughter of Duke Julius Ernst von Braunschweig-Dannenberg (1571–1636).

At the request of her mother since 1661 and through the mediation of Duke Anton Ulrich , she received a prebend as canoness in the imperial free secular imperial monastery in Gandersheim in 1665 .

Although she was the youngest of the three resident canons, she was elected dean and thus deputy to the abbess on October 3, 1665 on the recommendation of Duke August the Younger as the successor to Dorothea Hedwig of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Norburg, who had been promoted to abbess. After Dorothea Hedwig's resignation as a result of her conversion in 1678, she did not (yet) succeed him as abbess, because Duke Rudolf August Dorothea Hedwig's departure used to present his daughter Christine Sophie (1654–1695) as abbess to the collegiate chapter. Christine Sophie was also elected, but left office in 1681 to marry her cousin August Wilhelm von Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel .

Now Christina was elected abbess on August 9, 1681. Her inauguration ceremony took place on October 11th after she surrendered to the election . It was enfeoffed with the regalia by Emperor Leopold I on April 13, 1683.

Mecklenburg tomb in the collegiate church Gandersheim of the abbesses Christina and Marie Elisabeth of Mecklenburg

She died of breast damage on June 30, 1693 .

During her lifetime she had a Baroque tomb built for herself and her sister Marie Elisabeth in the Marienkapelle of the collegiate church . The inscriptions in Alexandrians on the subject of death and transience are attributed to the pastor Arnold Gottfried Ballenstedt (1660–1722). Her sarcophagus was buried in this Mecklenburg tomb on August 3, 1693. The tomb, the Grand Duke Friedrich Franz III. Was restored in 1892, is similar to that of her half-sister Sophie Agnes (1625–1694) in the Rühn monastery .

Henriette Christine von Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel was her successor .

literature

  • Kurt Kronenberg: Abbesses of the Baroque: Lives in Gandersheim, 1665–1713. Bad Gandersheim: Hertel 1961 (From Gandersheim's great past 3)
  • Hans Goetting : The dioceses of the ecclesiastical province of Mainz. The Diocese of Hildesheim I. The imperial canonical monastery Gandersheim. (Germania Sacra NF 7) Berlin: de Gruyter 1971 ISBN 978-3-11-004219-1 ( digitized version )

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Hans Goetting : The dioceses of the ecclesiastical province of Mainz. The Diocese of Hildesheim I. The imperial canonical monastery Gandersheim. (Germania Sacra NF 7) Berlin: de Gruyter 1971 ISBN 978-3-11-004219-1 ( digitized version), pp. 352f
  2. ↑ DIO 2, Kanonissenstift Gandersheim, No. 62 (Christine Wulf), in: www.inschriften.net, urn: nbn: de: 0238-dio002g001k0006202
  3. ^ Friedrich Schlie : * The art and historical monuments of the Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin . Volume 5: The district courts of Teterow, Malchin, Stavenhagen, Penzlin, Waren, Malchow and Röbel. Schwerin, 1902 ( digitized in the Internet Archive, p. 613)
personal data
SURNAME Christina of Mecklenburg
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Christina II
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Princess from the House of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Abbess of Gandersheim
DATE OF BIRTH August 8, 1639
DATE OF DEATH June 30, 1693
Place of death Gandersheim