Franziska Barbara
Franziska Barbara von Welz zu Wilmersdorf (* August 4, 1666 , † April 3, 1718 in Wilhermsdorf ) was mistress of Wilhermsdorf.
She was the daughter of Franz von Welz-Eberstein (* 1635; † 1674), Count von Welz, Baron von Eberstein, and Anna Barbara de Gun (* 1640; † around 1681), daughter of William Gunn (* around 1600), Baron of Ulm.
In 1689 she married the much older Count Wolfgang Julius von Hohenlohe-Neuenstein ( House Hohenlohe ), widower of Sophie Eleonore von Holstein-Sonderburg-Plön. Wolfgang Julius died after nine years of marriage in 1698 at the age of 76. The marriage remained childless. Her husband's inheritance fell to his brother Johann Friedrich I von Hohenlohe-Öhringen, Franziska Barbara only received the dominions Wilhermsdorf and Neidhardswinden, which Wolfgang Julius had bought on May 4, 1667.
Three years later, in 1701, at the age of 35, she married Count Philipp Ernst von Hohenlohe-Waldenburg-Schillingsfürst (born December 29, 1663, † November 29, 1759, Haus Hohenlohe ). Franziska Barbara kept Wilhermsdorf as the seat of her residence . She let the place expand considerably. So she brought new Jewish printers there in 1712 to secure sales for the paper mill. Wilhermsdorf experienced a heyday under their rule. She realized the new church planned by Julius Wolfgang between 1706 and 1714. Between 1707 and 1718 she had the school house in Burgmilchlingstraße, the infirmary in Spitalstraße, the Consulentenhaus (today's Wilhermsdorf town hall) and the Gottesackerkirche built. In Wilhermsdorf she is still called the "Wilhermsdorf benefactor". She died on April 3, 1718 at the age of 51 and was solemnly buried in a magnificent coffin in the crypt of the main Protestant church.
She left at least one daughter from her second marriage to Philipp Ernst:
- Caroline Juliane von Hohenlohe-Waldenburg-Schillingsfürst (* 1706; † 1758), ∞ Christian Otto von Limburg-Styrum (* 1694; † 1749).
After her death, Philipp Ernst married Maria Anna von Oettingen-Wallerstein for the second time.
After Philipp Ernst's death, the Wilhermsdorf and Neidhardswinden fiefs fell to his underage children. In 1733, Philipp Ernst's son took over the rule of Wilhermsdorf, but had no descendants, so that Wilhermsdorf fell to the son of Franziska Barbara's daughter Caroline Juliane, Philipp Ferdinand von Limburg-Styrum , in 1769 at the latest .
Web links
- General information about the history on the website of the Wilhermsdorf market
- Family tree of Franziska Barbara von Welz at fabpedigree.com (English)
Single receipts
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Franziska Barbara |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Welz-Wilmersdorf, Franziska Barbara to; Hohenlohe-Neuenstein, Franziska Barbara von; Hohenlohe-Waldenburg-Schillingsfürst, Franziska Barbara von |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | by marriage Countess von Hohenlohe, mistress of Wilhermsdorf |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 4th August 1666 |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 3, 1718 |
| Place of death | Wilhermsdorf |