Dorothea Diana of Salm

Wild and Rhine Countess Dorothea Diana von Salm (born July 25, 1604 in Criechingen (today: Créhange), † December 19, 1672 in Wörth ) was the daughter of Wild and Rhine Count Johann von Salm-Kyrburg and Baroness Anna Katharina von Kriechingen and Born in Püttingen . Her twin sister Anna Amalia, who later became Countess zu Königseck, was born an hour after she was born.

Youth and marriages

The sisters lost their father at an early age, and since their brothers and an uncle served with the Swedes , the sisters and their mother found themselves on the run from Catholic troops several times . Eventually they settled in Strasbourg . There it came to the two successive marriages of Dorothea Diana:

1. on March 1, 1636 she married Count Philipp Ludwig von Rappoltstein († February 25, 1637), who died after just under a year of marriage. The marriage remained childless.
2. on May 18, 1640, she married Count Philipp Wolfgang von Hanau-Lichtenberg (* 1595, † 1641). This marriage also remained childless.

This second marriage enabled her to leave Strasbourg again. The couple lived first at Lichtenberg Castle , later in the Hanau-Lichtenberger Residenz Buchsweiler . After only a year of marriage, her second husband also died. All children from the first marriage of Count Philipp Wolfgang, Count Friedrich Casimir , Johann Philipp and Johann Reinhard (II.) And their sisters Sophie Eleonore and Agatha Christine were minors at this point in time . Dorothea Diana took over their upbringing and probably also participated in the custodial government of the county, as this showed little continuity due to several deaths among the guardians: The guardianship initially took Count Johann Ernst von Hanau-Münzenberg and Baron Georg II von Fleckenstein-Dagstuhl true together. Georg II von Fleckenstein-Dagstuhl was a grandson of Anna Sibylle von Hanau-Lichtenberg , a daughter of Count Philipp IV von Hanau-Lichtenberg . When Johann Ernst died in 1642, Georg von Fleckenstein remained as sole guardian. When he died in 1644, Count Georg Albrecht von Erbach exercised guardianship until his death in 1647. Since there were only a few months left until the 25th birthday, the coming of age of Dorothea Diana's eldest stepson, Friedrich Casimir, no new guardianship was established. In 1651, after her stepchildren were old enough, Dorothea Diana left the Buchsweiler residence and retired to her widow's residence in Wörth, where she lived until her death.

death

Dorothea Diana died on December 19, 1672 and was buried in Buchsweiler. A funeral sermon by Günther Heiler, Superintendent and Consistorial Councilor of the County of Hanau-Lichtenberg was also published. This also contains contributions by Philipp Jacob Spener , Quirinus Moscherosch and Georg Wilhelm Spener .

Others

Her brother was the Swedish general Otto Ludwig von Salm-Kyrburg-Mörchingen .

literature

• Fritz Roth : Complete evaluation of funeral sermons and personal documents for genealogical purposes . 6th volume. Self-published, Boppart 1970.
• Reinhard Suchier : Genealogy of the Hanauer count house . In: Festschrift of the Hanau History Association for its 50th anniversary celebration on August 27, 1894 . Hanau 1894.
• Ernst Julius Zimmermann : Hanau city and country. Cultural history and chronicle of a Franconian-Wetterauischen city and former. County. With special consideration of the older time. Increased circulation. Self-published, Hanau 1919 (Unchanged reprint: Peters, Hanau 1978).

proof

1. ↑ Proof in Roth, No. 5024.