Eleonora Katharina von Fürstenberg

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Eleonora Katharina von Fürstenberg (* around 1630 presumably in Vienna ; † February 18, 1670 in Vaduz ) was a countess from the southern German noble family von Fürstenberg . She was the wife of Count Franz Wilhelm I von Hohenems . Together with her brother-in-law, she was sovereign of the County of Vaduz and the Lordship of Schellenberg from 1662 to 1670 .

Life

Eleonora Katharina was a daughter of the President of the Imperial Court Council Wratislaw I von Fürstenberg and his third wife, Lavinia Gonzaga Countess of Novellara and Bagniolo. She was probably born in Vienna around 1630. On February 14, 1649, in Stühlingen , she married Franz Wilhelm I von Hohenems, a count from the noble family Hohenems , whose grandfather Kaspar von Hohenems had acquired the county of Vaduz and the lordship of Schellenberg in 1613 from Karl Ludwig zu Sulz , whose territories are today's Form the Principality of Liechtenstein .

For the couple's wedding celebration at Vaduz Castle , a magnificent bed with the coats of arms of Hohenems and Fürstenberg was made, which is now in the Vorarlberg State Museum . The marriage had five children between 1650 and 1654:

Together with her husband, Eleonora Katharina donated an altar for the St. Maria chapel in Triesen in 1656 .

After the early death of her husband at the age of 35, she was appointed guardian of their underage children by Emperor Leopold I in 1662, together with her husband's older brother, Karl Friedrich von Hohenems . In this capacity, she reigned in place of her eldest son Ferdinand Karl, who was only 12 years old at the time, from 1662 until her death together with her brother-in-law over the county of Vaduz and the rule of Schellenberg.

Eleonora Katharina von Hohenems died of dropsy on February 18, 1670 at the age of about 40 in her widow's residence in Vaduz. On February 21, 1670 she was transferred to Hohenems and buried in the count's crypt in the Hohenems parish church. In March 1670, a notary recorded an “estate inventory” in her “Witiblichen Gräflichen] residence dwelling” in Vaduz, which allows conclusions to be drawn about the personality of the Countess and her lifestyle in Vaduz. One of a total of three traditional full-body portraits of the Countess, made in 1663 by an unknown artist, is in the municipal museum of the Czech city of Polička .

literature

  • Karl Heinz Burmeister: Fürstenberg, Eleonora Katharina Landgräfin von. In: Historical Lexicon of the Principality of Liechtenstein . 20th February 2018 .
  • Cornelia Herrmann: The Art Monuments of the Principality of Liechtenstein, New Edition . II: The Oberland. Bern 2007, p. 131 f., 257 .
  • Květa Křížová, David Junek: Picture gallery of the Counts of Hohenems: Catalog for the permanent exhibition of the Municipal Museum and the Polička Gallery . Polička 1999, p. 154 f .
  • Peter Kaiser: History of the Principality of Liechtenstein. Along with descriptions from Churrätien's prehistory . Chur 1847.
  • Peter Kaiser: History of the Principality of Liechtenstein. Along with descriptions from Churrätien's prehistory . Ed .: Arthur Brunhart. tape 1 . Vaduz 1989, p. 428, 442 .
  • Ilse Korotin (Ed.): BiografıA. Lexicon of Austrian Women. Volume 1: A-H. Böhlau, Wien / Köln / Weimar 2016, ISBN 978-3-205-79590-2 , pp. 692–693 ( limited preview in Google book search).

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Karl Heinz Burmeister: Inventory of the estate of Countess Eleonora Katharina von Hohenems, † 1670 . In: Yearbook of the Historical Association for the Principality of Liechtenstein . tape 106 , 2007, pp. 193-218 .
  2. ↑ Link to the illustration of the portrait in the Historical Lexicon of the Principality of Liechtenstein
personal data
SURNAME Fürstenberg, Eleonora Katharina von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hohenems, Eleonora Katharina von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Wife of Count Franz Wilhelm I of Hohenems
DATE OF BIRTH around 1630
PLACE OF BIRTH unsure: Vienna
DATE OF DEATH February 18, 1670
Place of death Vaduz