Hedwig Maximiliane von Dyhrn
Countess Hedwig Maximiliane Johanna von Dyhrn , Baroness zu Schönau and Eisenberg, (born May 13, 1699 at Klitschdorf Castle ; † June 23, 1747 at Eisenberg Castle ) was a Silesian noblewoman , star cross order lady and lady-in-waiting at the imperial court in Vienna .
origin
Hedwig Maximiliane was born as Countess von Rechenberg , Freiin von Klitschdorf and Primbkenau , on her father's estate in Klitschdorf in Lower Silesia . Her parents were Count Leopold Friedrich Rechenberg, Vice President of the Silesian Chamber, and Marie Hedwig geb. from Loeben .
Life
Hedwig was sent to Vienna very early on to become a lady-in-waiting. There she later became confidante u. a. also the Empress Elisabeth Christine , the mother of Maria Theresa , and decorated with the Star Cross in 1730 .
On October 6, 1717 in Breslau she married Count Julius August von Sternberg auf Bogenau, Groß-Raudnitz and Rudelsdorf (1692–1724), a son of Count Konrad I. von Sternberg from the Silesian branch of the Bohemian noble family von Sternberg, and his wife Anna Margarethe von Kottulinsky. When Julius August died seven years after the wedding, his widow inherited the Bogenau estate.
A few years after the death of her first husband, she met her second husband through her friend, Duchess Sibylle Charlotte Juliane von Württemberg-Oels , the widowed Silesian governor and politician, Count Sylvius Friedrich von Dyhrn , Freiherr zu Schönau (1693–1755) , Son of the Silesian politician and chancellor Melchior Sylvius von Dyhrn and Anna Helene von Borschnitz, widowed Baroness von Hohenhausen. His first wife was a baroness von Berge and Herrendorf who died in Vienna around 1720 at the age of only 18 . The wedding took place on October 20, 1727 in Vienna.
Hedwig Maximiliane lived for a long time in Vienna, where her husband was a high-ranking official at the imperial court for years. She owned numerous dominions in Lower Silesia (including the castles Prauß, Zweibrodt, Blankenau, Bogenau, Glambach, Distelwitz, Sürding, Weissig, etc.). The seat of her husband's family, whose branch in the male line became extinct in the second half of the 18th century, was Eisenberg Castle, after which this line was named and which was built by the Dyhrn family in the 17th century.
Hedwig Maximiliane died on June 23, 1747 in Dyhrn's Castle in Eisenberg (Żeleźnik) near Strehlen .
children
From their first marriage came:
- Count Joseph Leopold Ignaz Johann Nepomuk von Sternberg (* 1726), ∞ Maria Carolina von Langenthal.
From her second marriage came:
- Imperial Count Friedrich Karl Johannes Ernst Melchior von Dyhrn, Baron zu Schönau (1733–1760), ∞ Countess Marie Elisabeth von Promnitz .
Sources and websites
- Sources and research on the history of the Reformation. C. Bertelsmann, 1971
- Genealogical manual of the nobility. Ehrenkrook, 1960
- www.geneall.net
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Dyhrn, Hedwig Maximiliane from |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Dyhrn, Hedwig Maximiliane Johanna Countess of |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Silesian noblemen, lady of the star cross and lady-in-waiting at the imperial court in Vienna |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 13, 1699 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Klitschdorf Castle |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 23, 1747 |
| Place of death | Eisenberg Castle |