Henriette Alexandrine of Nassau-Weilburg

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Henriette of Nassau-Weilburg
Her place of birth in exile in the Hermitage Palace near Bayreuth

Henriette Alexandrine Friederike Wilhelmine Princess of Nassau-Weilburg (born October 30, 1797 at the Hermitage Palace near Bayreuth , † December 29, 1829 in Vienna ) was the wife of Archduke Karl of Austria .

Life

Henriette was the daughter of Prince Friedrich Wilhelm von Nassau-Weilburg and Countess Luise von Sayn-Hachenburg (1772-1827).

On September 17, 1815, in Weilburg , she married the "Sieger von Aspern", Archduke Karl of Austria , who was 26 years older. This was the first " mixed marriage " in the House of Habsburg; it turned out to be a happy marriage with seven children. Her husband had the Weilburg built for her in Baden near Vienna . Although street-side access was forbidden in Protestant prayer houses, the so-called Henriettentor was built for them in the Reformed City Church in Vienna . After her death it had to be bricked up again.

Henriette von Nassau-Weilburg brought the first Christmas tree with burning candles to Vienna in 1816 , a custom that had not existed in Catholic Austria until then.

She died in 1829, at the age of 32, after contracting the disease from her children with scarlet fever and pneumonia. Her brother-in-law, Emperor Franz I , managed to get her to be buried in the Capuchin crypt despite her evangelical faith : "If she has been among us as a living, she should also be as dead."

In 2009, the Henriette-von-Nassau-Weg in Vienna- Donaustadt (22nd district) was named after her.

progeny

Archduke Karl with his family. Family portrait by Johann Ender , 1832, Army History Museum

On the family portrait of Johann Nepomuk Ender from 1832, which is in the Army History Museum in Vienna, Henriette, who died in 1829, is shown in the form of a portrait bust on the left edge of the picture. The lady to the left of Archduke Karl is Archduchess Maria Theresia (1816–1867).

literature

Web links

Commons : Henriette von Nassau-Weilburg  - Collection of images

Individual evidence

  1. Princess Isabella Louise of Nassau-Weilburg was, apparently at her daughter after the death of her husband Weilburg weilend, first in Baden bei Wien buried. On December 14, 1898, her body was exhumed in the presence of three Austrian archdukes and subsequently buried in the princely crypt of the Protestant castle church in Weilburg . - Local news. Exhumation .. In:  Badener Zeitung , December 17, 1898, p. 4, center right (online at ANNO ).Template: ANNO / Maintenance / bzt