Maria Immaculata of Austria

This article deals with the Archduchess of Austria, who lived from 1892 to 1971; for the Archduchess of Austria, who lived from 1878 to 1968, see Maria Immakulata von Österreich .

Maria Immaculata of Austria

Maria Immaculata of Austria (full name: Maria Immaculata Karoline Margarethe Blanka Leopoldine Beatrix Anna ; born September 9, 1892 in Lemberg ; † September 3, 1971 in Viareggio ) was a born Archduchess of Austria and Princess of Tuscany . After the fall of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy in 1918, she lived first in exile in Spain and from the 1930s until her death in Italy.

Life

Archduchess Maria Immaculata and her mother Blanca

Maria Immaculata came from the House of Habsburg and was born in Lemberg, Galicia , in 1892 , which was then part of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy . She was the second daughter of Archduke Leopold Salvator of Austria-Tuscany and his wife, the Spanish Infanta Blanca de Borbón , who played a dominant role in the family. The Archduchess received the name Immaculata in honor of her paternal grandmother, Maria Immaculata of Naples-Sicily . She grew up in a multicultural household during the late Habsburg monarchy with her sisters Dolores and Margaretha ; all three sisters were musically inclined. Maria Immaculata, who was always rather reserved, played several musical instruments and was a particularly good pianist. She was also active as a composer. In addition to German, she spoke several foreign languages ​​such as French, Spanish, Hungarian and Italian. The family lived in the Palais Toskana in Vienna and at Schloss Wilhelminenberg and spent holidays in Italy on a land owned by the Infanta Blanca near Viareggio. During the First World War (1914-18) Maria Immaculata was a nurse at the Red Cross.

After the end of the First World War, the government of the First Austrian Republic confiscated the Habsburg property and the family lost their property. While Maria Immaculata's two oldest brothers, Rainer and Leopold , stayed in Austria and recognized the new republic, the rest of the family went into exile in Spain. There she lived in Barcelona in January 1919 in relatively modest circumstances. In the house she rented, the girls shared a bedroom with their mother and the boys one with their father. Income from Archduke Leopold Salvator's military patents improved the family's financial situation. Due to political unrest in the Second Spanish Republic, the family moved back to Vienna, where they rented three rooms from their previous residence, the Palais Toskana, but they first had to renounce their nobility titles.

Maria Immaculata only stayed briefly in Austria. On July 14, 1932, she married the Rittmeister Nobile Igino Neri-Serneri (* July 22, 1891, † May 1, 1950), a patrician of Siena , in Rome . The couple lived in Rome, even under difficult circumstances during World War II (1939–45). It did not have children. After the death of her husband in 1950, Maria Immaculata moved to her sisters Dolores and Margaretha in Tenuata Reale, an estate near Viareggio, which they inherited after her mother's death. Maria Immaculata lived there until her death on September 3, 1971 at the age of almost 79. She found her final resting place in the family crypt in Viareggio.

literature

• Maria Immakulata , in: Brigitte Hamann (Ed.): Die Habsburger , 1988, p. 322.

Web links

• Darryl Lundy: Maria Immaculata Archduchess of Austria on The Peerage

Remarks

1. ↑ Bertita Harding: Lost Waltz: A Story of Exile , 1944 S. 294th
2. ↑ Bertita Harding: Lost Waltz: A Story of Exile , 1944 S. 115th
3. ↑ Bertita Harding: Lost Waltz: A Story of Exile , 1944 S. 97th
4. ↑ ^{a b} Maria Immakulata , in: Brigitte Hamann (Ed.): Die Habsburger , 1988, p. 322.
5. ↑ Bertita Harding: Lost Waltz: A Story of Exile , 1944 S. 218th