Elisabeth of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg

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Elisabeth of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg with her husband Bogislaw XIV of Pomerania, 1615

Elisabeth of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg (* September 24, 1580 ; † December 21, 1653 in Rügenwalde in Western Pomerania ) was the last Duchess of Pomerania .

Life

Coffin of Duchess Elisabeth, b. Schleswig-Holstein

Princess Elisabeth was the daughter of Duke Johann von Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg (1545–1622) and Elisabeth von Braunschweig-Grubenhagen (1550–1586), whom he married on August 19, 1568 in Kolding .

She married the Pomeranian Duke Bogislaw XIV in 1615 and then lived in Rügenwalde and Stettin . The marriage remained childless. After Bogislaw XIV's death in 1637, the ducal castle of Rügenwalde was assigned to her as a widow's seat. She is considered to be the founder of the legendary Rügenwalder silver altar , which she had taken care of and which was erected in the Marienkirche of Rügenwalde until the end of the Second World War . The city of Rügenwalde had to raise their appanage, with which they often quarreled in this context. After she died in Rügenwalde, her body was first buried in the castle church of Rügenwalde Castle, later buried in the crypt of King Erich I in the Rügenwalder Marienkirche .

She was the sister of Sophia von Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg, who had been married to the Pomeranian Duke Philip II since 1607 , and sister of Anna von Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg, the second wife of Bogislaw XIII. who later lived as a widow in the so-called Ritterhaus von Neustettin .

literature

  • Martin Wehrmann : Genealogy of the Pomeranian ducal house. Saunier, Stettin 1937, p. 127.

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Footnotes

  1. ^ Hugo Lemke: Der Rügenwalder Silberaltar , in: Der Kreis Schlawe (M. Vollack, ed.), Volume 1: The district as a whole , ISBN 3-88042-239-7 , pp. 397-411.
  2. Twenty-seventh annual report of the Commission for the Research and Conservation of Monuments in the Province of Pomerania in the period from October 1, 1920 to September 30, 1921 , Annex II: Supplements to the Rügenwalder Silver Altar , page VII ff. (Available in the Greifswald digital library) ( Memento of the original from June 16, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / digibib.ub.uni-greifswald.de
  3. Some of the panels of the Rügenwald silver altar are lost, some remaining panels are exhibited today (2008) in a museum in Stolp ; see “Zum Silberaltar”, in: Pommersche Zeitung , No. 7/2008, p. 8.