Josepha Ursula von Herding

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Gravestone in the main cemetery in Mannheim

Josepha Ursula von Herding (* 1780 in Mannheim ; † November 24, 1849 there ) was a locally historically significant electoral and Bavarian aristocrat.

Biography and family

She was born as Josepha Ursula von St. Martin (more often de Saint Martin ). Her father, the French Count Claude de Saint Martin (1729–1799), had settled in Mannheim and had been running the state-monopolized lottery there since 1764. The mother, Ursula de Saint Martin b. von Verschaffelt († 1780), was the daughter of the Palatinate court sculptor Peter Anton von Verschaffelt (1710–1793). There are remarkable tombs of both parents in the Heilig-Geist-Kirche (Mannheim) , which were transferred there during the profanation of the Augustinian Choir Women’s Church in Mannheim ; that of the mother comes from Peter Anton von Verschaffelt himself.

  • Mother's tomb

  • Father's tomb

Josepha Ursula von St. Martin had married Freiherr Nikolaus Casimir von Herding , former adjutant general to Elector Karl Theodor , later Bavarian chamberlain , lieutenant general and chief steward of Queen Caroline of Bavaria . He died in 1811 and his wife lived from then on as a widow.

Mundenheim Castle Estate

She was a devout Catholic and very charitable. In winter she lived in her parents' house in Mannheim, but in summer she lived in the castle estate of Baron Peter Emanuel von Zedtwitz in Mundenheim , which she and six islands in the Rhine owned by his late widow, her sister-in-law Magdalena von Zedtwitz, born in 1814. von Herding as the closest living relative inherited. There she received frequent visits from her friend, Grand Duchess Stéphanie von Baden , but also several times from King Ludwig I of Bavaria . The monarch also came to her in 1844 when he revived the nearby Oggersheim monastery , the magnificent church of which her grandfather Peter Anton von Verschaffelt had once built. Josepha Ursula von Herding maintained a close friendly relationship with the monastery. On the occasion of his visit to the Palatinate in 1845, King Ludwig had lunch with her in Mundenheim on June 3.

From their marriage she had the daughter Maria Magdalena (1789-1859) and the son Maximilian (1802-1850).

Maria Magdalena married Prince Karl Theodor von Isenburg in 1808, son of the Bavarian Lieutenant General Friedrich Wilhelm zu Isenburg and Büdingen (1730-1804) and his wife Karoline Franziska Dorothea von Parkstein (1762-1816), a natural daughter of Elector Karl Theodor von Electoral Palatinate Bavaria . A daughter from this connection later married the Austrian Prime Minister Karl Ferdinand von Buol-Schauenstein .

The son Maximilian held the office of a Bavarian chamberlain. Together with him, Josepha Ursula von Herding acquired Dalberg's castle in Nierstein . They had it rebuilt and built a splendid chapel , completely painted in the Nazarene style, which is one of the very special sights of the place today. The artist commissioned for this was Jakob Götzenberger from Heidelberg .

Grave site Mannheim main cemetery

Josepha Ursula von Herding died in 1849 in her Mannheimer Palais L 1, 2, the former lottery center of her father, and was buried in the immediately adjacent Augustinian Choir Church . When these were profaned in 1898, their bones, along with the remains of other people buried there, were transferred to the main cemetery in Mannheim and a communal grave was laid for them. The son Maximilian von Herding also rests there. Freifrau von Herding donated a. a. in will 6000 guilders for the city ​​hospital Mannheim .

literature

  • Friedrich Kirsch: The Mundenheimer Hofgut , in: Pfälzer Heimat , Historischer Verein der Pfalz , Speyer 1970, pages 45 and 46
  • The cemeteries in Mannheim , Süddeutsche Verlagsgesellschaft Mannheim, 1992, pages 204 and 205
  • Wolfgang Kunz: "In loyalty to the Electoral Palatinate: Freiherr Peter Emanuel von Zedtwitz-Liebenstein (1715–1786), village lord and minister" in: Mannheimer Geschichtsblätter, 1995, pages 283-296

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Yearbook of the Institute for German History , Volume 13, 1984, page 69; Excerpt from the source
  2. ↑ Newspaper of the Grand Duchy of Frankfurt , No. 291, of October 18, 1811; Scans from the source
  3. ^ Illustrated website on the history of the Mundenheim Castle Estate
  4. ↑ Der Bayerische Volksfreund , Munich, year 1845, p. 390; (Digital scan)
  5. ↑ Genealogical website about Maria Magdalena von Isenburg geb. from Herding
  6. ↑ Illustrated website for the castle chapel in Nierstein
personal data
SURNAME Herding, Josepha Ursula from
ALTERNATIVE NAMES St. Martin, Josepha Ursula von (maiden name); Saint Martin, Josepha Ursula de
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German baroness
DATE OF BIRTH 1780
PLACE OF BIRTH Mannheim
DATE OF DEATH November 24, 1849
Place of death Mannheim