Dorothea Maria of Saxe-Weimar
Dorothea Maria von Sachsen-Weimar (born October 14, 1641 in Weimar ; † June 11, 1675 at Moritzburg Castle in Zeitz ) was Princess of Saxe-Weimar from the house of the Ernestine Wettins and, through marriage, duchess of the Saxon secondary school principality of Saxony-Zeitz .
Life
family
Dorothea Maria was the youngest daughter of Duke Wilhelm IV of Saxony-Weimar from his marriage to Eleonore Dorothea von Anhalt-Dessau , daughter of Prince Johann Georg I of Anhalt-Dessau, and after the birth she received the name of her grandmother, who had already died Duchess mother Dorothea Maria von Anhalt .
Married Moritz von Sachsen and worked in the Principality of Zeitz
The marriage of Dorothea Mary must be seen against the background that the then Prince Maurice of Saxony, who as the administrator of 1653 pin Naumburg in Naumburg City Palace resided, already in the year 1646 Fruchtbringende company was incorporated whose "head" Dorothea Maria's father was.
Moritz, who had already been married once and had been widowed since October 7, 1652, married the then 15-year-old princess from Weimar after the obligatory period of mourning. Soon after the marriage, Dorothea Maria's father-in-law, the Saxon Elector Johann Georg I , died and Moritz, as the youngest son, was given further hereditary land in addition to his monastery territory as a secondary school due to his father's testamentary statements, which made him the founder of the new Albertine line of Saxony-Zeitz has been.
The city palace in Naumburg therefore did not seem to be an appropriate residence for the new principality, which is why the duke decided to build an appropriate magnificent building in the baroque style in the new residence city of Zeitz, Moritzburg an der Elster . To do this, he called his father-in-law's master builder, Johann Moritz Richter, to his court.
The ducal couple considered their main task to be the repair of infrastructural damage and a new economic upswing in the principality after the devastation left by the Thirty Years War . Among other things, they dedicated themselves to the reconstruction of the Stiftsschule in Zeitz, which Christoph Cellarius later helped to gain a great reputation.
She died at the age of 33 on June 11, 1675 and was buried in a magnificent coffin in the hall crypt of the Cathedral of St. Peter and Paul in Zeitz.
After Dorothea Maria's death, Duke Moritz married a third time - this marriage, however, remained childless, so that the descendants of the Sachsen-Zeitz secondary school were all descended from Dorothea Maria. Due to a lack of male offspring, however, the secondary school died out in the third generation.
Marriage and offspring
Her only marriage was on July 3, 1656 in Weimar with Moritz, Duke of Saxony-Zeitz , the son of Johann Georg I, Elector of Saxony from his marriage to Magdalena Sibylle of Prussia .
The marriage had ten children:
- Eleonore Magdalene (born October 30, 1658 in Weimar, † February 26, 1661 in Dresden), Princess of Saxony-Zeitz
- Wilhelmine Eleonore (* / † September (?) 1659 in Dresden (?)), Princess of Saxony-Zeitz
- Erdmuth Dorothea (1661–1720), Princess of Saxony-Zeitz ∞ Christian II, Duke of Saxony-Merseburg
- Moritz Wilhelm (1664–1718), Duke of Saxony-Zeitz ∞ Maria Amalia of Brandenburg
- Johann Georg (born April 27, 1665 at Moritzburg Castle in Zeitz; † September 5, 1666 there), Prince of Saxony-Zeitz
- Christian August (1666–1725), Prince of Saxony-Zeitz, Cardinal-Archbishop of Gran, Bishop of Raab, Primate of Hungary and Imperial Principal Commissioner at the Perpetual Diet
- Friedrich Heinrich (1668–1713), Duke of Saxony-Zeitz-Pegau-Neustadt ∞ (I) Sophie Angelika of Württemberg-Bernstadt and ∞ (II) Anna Friederike Philippine of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Wiesenburg
- Maria Sophia (born November 3, 1670 at Moritzburg Castle in Zeitz; † May 31, 1671 ibid), Princess of Saxony-Zeitz
- Magdalena Sibylla (born April 7, 1672 at Moritzburg Castle in Zeitz; † August 20, 1672 ibid), Princess of Saxony-Zeitz
- Wilhelmine Sophie (* / † June 11 (?) 1675 at Moritzburg Castle in Zeitz (?)), Princess of Saxony-Zeitz
Web links
- Publications by and about Dorothea Maria von Sachsen-Weimar in VD 17 .
- Anne-Simone Knöfel: Dorothea Maria of Saxe-Weimar . In: Institute for Saxon History and Folklore (Ed.): Saxon Biography .
- Johann Hübners ... three hundred and three and thirty genealogical tables, Tab. 171
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Dorothea Maria of Saxe-Weimar |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Dorothea Maria von Wettin; Dorothea Maria of Saxony-Zeitz |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Princess of Saxe-Weimar and by marriage Duchess of Saxe-Zeitz |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 14, 1641 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Weimar |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 11, 1675 |
| Place of death | Moritzburg Castle |