Maria Anna Amalia Auguste von Pfalz-Sulzbach

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Maria Anna Amalia Auguste von Pfalz-Sulzbach (born June 7, 1693 in Sulzbach ; † January 18, 1762 in Cologne ) was a Wittelsbach princess from the Pfalz-Sulzbach family branch and became a Discalced Carmelite .

Origin and family

She was the eldest child of Duke Theodor Eustach von Pfalz-Sulzbach and his wife Maria Eleonora Amalie, Countess of Hesse-Rheinfels-Rothenburg. Both her paternal grandfather Christian August von Pfalz-Sulzbach and her maternal great-grandfather Ernst I von Hessen-Rheinfels-Rotenburg were converts to the Catholic Church and each established Catholic family lines in their homes.

Live and act

Maria Anna Amalia Auguste von Pfalz-Sulzbach entered the Cologne monastery of St. Maria in the Kupfergasse in 1714 and became a Discalced Carmelite. Her father's sister, Amalia Maria Therese von Pfalz-Sulzbach (1651–1721), lived here as a nun. According to an old monastery chronicle edited by St. Edith Stein , her niece was the greatest joy and consolation in life To have sister with you.

Princess Maria Anna Amalia Auguste made her solemn vows in 1715 and received the religious name Maria Eleonora Therese de St. Cruce . From 1726 she appears as the prioress of the Carmelite monastery in Düsseldorf , of which there is still the baroque Joseph Chapel . She held this office until the end of the 1730s, then returned to the Cologne mother monastery of St. Maria in the Kupfergasse, where she also acted as superior.

She died here in January 1762. It is said that she led a holy life. They were buried in the Cologne monastery. According to the current pastor, Klaus-Peter Vosen, the graves of the Carmelites were destroyed in World War II and the bones found were later transferred to a collective grave in the cloister of the church.

Family environment

The brother Joseph Karl von Pfalz-Sulzbach , presumptive heir to the throne of the Electoral Palatinate until 1729

Maria Anna Amalia Augustes brother Joseph Karl von Pfalz-Sulzbach († 1729) had married Elisabeth Auguste Sofie von der Pfalz (1693-1728), the only surviving child of the Palatine Elector Karl III. Philipp († 1742), and was the presumptive heir to the throne of the Electoral Palatinate until his early death . In the year of his death, he had a Loreto chapel with the miraculous image of the Black Madonna built near Mannheim , based on the model in his sister's Cologne monastery , which still exists today as the pilgrimage church of the Assumption of Mary in Oggersheim . King Max I Joseph of Bavaria is his grandson.

Her other brother Johann Christian Joseph von Pfalz-Sulzbach († 1733) became the father of the Palatinate-Bavarian Elector Karl Theodor .

The sister Ernestine Theodora von Pfalz-Sulzbach († 1775) also entered the Carmelite order as a widow and died in the reputation of holiness, which is why she u. a. in the Ecumenical Saint Lexicon .

Other sisters of the Cologne nun were Anna Christine Luise von Pfalz-Sulzbach († 1723), married to the later King Karl Emanuel III. of Sardinia , as well as Franziska Christine von Pfalz-Sulzbach († 1776), abbess of the women's monasteries Essen and Thorn .

literature

  • Christian Häutle: Genealogy of the illustrious parent company Wittelsbach , Munich, 1870, p. 189; (Digital scan)
  • BG Bayerle: The Catholic churches in Düsseldorf from their origins to the most recent times. A contribution to the history of the city , Düsseldorf, 1844, p. 213; (Digital scan)
  • Max Heimbucher : The orders and congregations of the Catholic Church , Volume 2, p. 575, Paderborn, 1907; (Digital scan)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Edith Stein : Spiritual Texts , Volume 1, p. 157, Volume 19 of: Edith Stein Gesamtausgabe , Herder Verlag, Freiburg, 2009, ISBN 3451273896 , book excerpt, p. 95 of the PDF document
  2. ^ Negotiations of the Historical Association for Upper Palatinate and Regensburg , Volume 148, 2008, p. 112; (Detail scan)
  3. ↑ Mail to the author, dated February 3, 2016
  4. ↑ Entry in the Ecumenical Lexicon of Saints portal
personal data
SURNAME Pfalz-Sulzbach, Maria Anna Amalia Auguste von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Princess from the House of Wittelsbach, Carmelite and prioress
DATE OF BIRTH June 7, 1693
PLACE OF BIRTH Sulzbach
DATE OF DEATH January 18, 1762
Place of death Cologne