Dorothea Augusta of Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel

This article deals with Dorothea Augusta von Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel, the abbess of the Gandersheim monastery. For the abbess of the same monastery with the similar name, see Auguste Dorothea von Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel (1749–1810) .

Dorothea Auguste von Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel, Abbess of Gandersheim

Dorothea Augusta von Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel (born February 12, 1577 in Wolfenbüttel , † December 19, 1625 in Wolfenbüttel) was a princess of Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel and abbess of the imperial free secular imperial monastery of Gandersheim .

Life

Dorothea Augusta was a daughter of Duke Julius von Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel (1528–1589) from his marriage to Hedwig (1540–1602), daughter of Elector Joachim II of Brandenburg .

Dorothea Augusta was elected coadjutor of the Gandersheim Monastery in 1602 , and she became its abbess in 1611. The collection of the Welfenschatz also includes an engraved alarm clock from the abbess, a gift from her brother Heinrich Julius .

Dorothea Augusta fled in 1625 during the Thirty Years' War from the advancing troops of General Tilly to Wolfenbüttel, where she died shortly afterwards. It was not until March 1626 that she was buried in the main church of Beatae Mariae Virginis in Wolfenbüttel.

The Abbess's motto was: God will make it .

See also

• List of the abbesses of Gandersheim

literature

• Friedrich Görges: The St. Blasius Cathedral in Braunschweig, built by Heinrich the Lion, Duke of Saxony and Bavaria, and its peculiarities and hereditary burials , 1820, p. 116 digitized
• August B. Michaelis, Julius Wilhelm Hamberger: Introduction to a complete history of the Chur and Princely Houses in Germany , Volume 1, Meyer, 1759, p. 106

Individual evidence

1. ^ The Royal Welfen Museum in Hanover in 1863 , Hahn, 1864, p. 21
2. ↑ Max Lbe: Walsprüche: Forex and sayings , BiblioBazaar, LLC, 2009, p 59