Maria Karolina von Königsegg-Rothenfels

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The penultimate abbess of the imperial monastery Maria Karolina von Königsegg-Rothenfels with the renovation plans for the monastery and collegiate church

Maria Karolina von Königsegg-Rothenfels (also Maria Charlotte von Königsegg-Rothenfels ; * June 15, 1707 , † December 13, 1774 in Buchau ) was an abbess of the free worldly Buchau women's monastery in what is now Bad Buchau am Federsee .

Life

Maria Karolina was the daughter of Carl Friedel Desiderius von Königsegg -Rothenfels and Maximiliane von Althann . She was elected abbess on December 17, 1742 by the collegiate chapter . A family tree of the 16 noble ancestors has been preserved from her . This trial of nobility was a condition for acceptance into the monastery as a canon . Her sister Anna Wilhelmine Maria was the abbess of the St. Ursula Abbey in Cologne .

In the first years of her reign, Maria Karolina renewed the statutes of the monastery. She then led the renovation of the monastery and the partial new construction of the collegiate church of St. Cornelius and Cyprianus by Franz Anton Bagnato and Pierre Michel d'Ixnard .

She died on December 13, 1774.

literature

  • Rudolf Seigel: Election and Benediction. Election and consecration of an abbess of Buchau Abbey in 1742/43 . In: Dietmar Schiersner, Volker Trugenberger, Wolfgang Zimmermann (eds.): Noble ladies' pens in Upper Swabia in the early modern period. Self-image, scope, everyday life . Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 2011, ISBN 978-3-17-022051-5 , pp. 165-202
  • Bernhard Theil: The free worldly women's monastery Buchau am Federsee . Ed .: Max Planck Institute for History (=  Germania Sacra . NF 32). Walter de Gruyter, Berlin and New York 1994, ISBN 3-11-014214-7 , pp. 243-244 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Theil, p. 244
predecessor Office Successor
Maria Theresa of Montfort Abbess of Buchau
1742–1774 		Maria Maximiliana from Stadium
personal data
SURNAME Königsegg-Rothenfels, Maria Karolina von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Königsegg-Rothenfels, Maria Charlotte von (alternative name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Abbess of the Buchau women's monastery
DATE OF BIRTH June 15, 1707
DATE OF DEATH December 13, 1774
Place of death Buchau