Friederike (Württemberg-Neuenstadt)

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Friederike

Friederike von Württemberg-Neuenstadt (born July 27, 1699 in Neuenstadt am Kocher ; † May 8, 1781 ibid) was the youngest daughter of the Württemberg Duke Friedrich August from the Württemberg-Neuenstadt line . She was the last living member of the line, which died out.

Life

She was the daughter of Duke Friedrich August von Württemberg-Neuenstadt and Albertine von Eberstein. After the death of her father in 1716, she lived with her mother in Gochsheim Castle . In 1726 she formally entered the Gandersheim monastery without actually living there. When her mother also died in 1728, she moved to the Stuttgart court. After Duke Eberhard Ludwig's death in 1733, she became a lady- in- waiting to his widow Johanna Elisabeth at her widow's residence in Kirchheim unter Teck . In 1738 she became abbess of Wallö women's monastery in Denmark. In 1748 she returned to Neuenstadt, where she lived in the castle until her death.

With her uncle Carl Rudolf , the Württemberg-Neuenstadt line had already died out in the male line in 1742. After the death of two childless older sisters in 1743 and 1751, Friederike was the last living member of the line. After she died in 1781, she was the last to be buried in the crypt of the Nikolauskirche in Neuenstadt, after which the crypt was closed.

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