Emilie Agnes Reuss to Schleiz

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Emilie Agnes (also Aemilia Agnes , etc.; * August 11, 1667 in Schleiz ; † October 15, 1729 in Drehna , Niederlausitz , Electorate of Saxony ) was Countess of Promnitz of Sorau and Triebel and Duchess of Saxony-Weissenfels by marriage - Dahme . She owned the Drehna dominion and the city of Vetschau .

Life

Emilie Agnes was a daughter of Count Heinrich I. Reuss zu Schleiz and Esther von Hardegg auf Glatz . In 1682 she married Count Balthasar Erdmann von Promnitz on Sorau and Triebel . She probably brought pietistic influences into the family, as indicated by two sons attending school in Halle . Her husband Balthasar Erdmann died in 1703, and in 1709 she bought the Drehna estate from her son Friedrich .

Emilie Agnes married Duke Friedrich von Sachsen-Weißenfels-Dahme, who was six years his junior in 1711 . With their financial support, he was able to extensively rebuild his residential palace in Dahme . Friedrich died in 1715 shortly before the renovations were completed. Emilie Agnes first took her widow's seat in Dahme, but sold the castle in 1719 and moved back to Drehna. In 1721 she acquired the town of Vetschau from Christian Dietrich von Schlieben and had the Renaissance castle there extensively rebuilt.

After her death in 1729, the Drehna reign passed to her grandson Balthasar Friedrich and Vetschau to her son Erdmann.

Marriages and offspring

From the marriage with Balthasar Erdmann von Promnitz emerged:

  • Erdmann II. Von Promnitz (1683–1745), free landlord of Pless, lord of Sorau, Triebel, etc.
  • Friedrich von Promnitz (1684–1712), Herr von Drehna and Halbau; (Father of Balthasar Friedrich (1711–1744))
  • Heinrich von Promnitz (1686–1700)
  • Esther Maximiliane Elisabeth von Promnitz (1687–1701)
  • Philippine Henriette Theresia von Promnitz (1689–1689)

The marriage with Duke Friedrich von Sachsen-Weißenfels-Dahme remained without descendants.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Andreas Gößner: The terministic dispute: Prehistory, course and meaning of a theological conflict at the turn of the 17th to the 18th century. (= Contributions to historical theology. Volume 159.) Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck 2011 ISBN 9783161508516 p. 101 .
  2. ^ Carsten Preuß and Hiltrud Preuß: The manor houses and mansions in the Teltow-Fläming district. Lukas-Verlag, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-86732-100-6 p. 37
  3. ↑ City Palace City of Vetschau / Spreewald (pdf)
personal data
SURNAME Reuss to Schleiz, Emilie Agnes
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Sachsen-Weißenfels-Dahme, Emilie Agnes von; Promnitz, Emilie Agnes von; Reuss zu Schleiz, Aemilia Agnes; Reuss to Schleiz, Aemilie Agnes
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Countess of Promnitz on Sorau and Triebel, Duchess of Saxony-Weißenfels-Dahme, owner of the Drehna and von Vetschau estate
DATE OF BIRTH August 11, 1667
PLACE OF BIRTH Schleiz
DATE OF DEATH October 15, 1729
Place of death Drehna, Lower Lusatia, Electorate of Saxony