Henriette Alexandrine of Nassau-Weilburg
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
- Maria Theresia Isabella (1816–1867), Queen of Naples and Sicily
- Albrecht Friedrich Rudolf (1817–1895)
- Karl Ferdinand (1818–1874)
- Friedrich Ferdinand Leopold (1821–1847)
- Rudolph Franz (* / † 1822)
- Maria Karolina (1825–1915), wife of Archduke Rainer of Austria (1827–1913)
- Wilhelm Franz Karl (1827-1894)
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
- Constantin von Wurzbach : Habsburg, Henriette Alexandrina Friederike Wilhelmine . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 6th part. Kaiserlich-Königliche Hof- und Staatsdruckerei, Vienna 1860, p. 277 ( digitized version ).
- Monika Posch: Henriette von Nassau-Weilburg. A Protestant in the House of Habsburg, in: Peter Karner (ed.), The Evangelical Community HB in Vienna. Jubilee Festschrift (= research and contributions to Vienna's urban history 16), Vienna 1986, pp. 72–81.
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Individual evidence
- ↑ 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 ).
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SURNAME | Henriette Alexandrine of Nassau-Weilburg |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Henriette Alexandrine Friederike Wilhelmine Princess of Nassau-Weilburg (full name) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Princess of Nassau-Weilburg, wife of Archduke Karl of Austria |
DATE OF BIRTH | October 30, 1797 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Hermitage Palace , Bayreuth |
DATE OF DEATH | December 29, 1829 |
Place of death | Vienna |