Maria Katharina Strozzi

Maria Katharina Strozzi (* 1633 ; † January 3, 1714 ) was the founder and namesake of the Viennese suburb Strozzigrund .

Life

Maria Katharina Strozzi was born as the daughter of Count Franz Christoph von Khevenhüller , who came from the Franconian line of this Carinthian family. It was not until 1607 that the family was raised from baron to count status. Maria Katharina, lady-in-waiting to the Empress, married Count Peter Strozzi (born 1626) in 1654 , who came from a patrician family in Florence . Her husband was appointed imperial envoy to Brandenburg in 1660 and fell as a colonel in an infantry regiment on June 7, 1664 near Csakathurn in the battle against the Turks . After the death of her husband, Maria Katharina no longer married. In 1702 she bought the arid Lerchenfeld and built a small summer palace ( Palais Strozzi ) here. In 1704 their property was declared a free manor by Emperor Leopold I , which laid the legal basis for the formation of an independent suburb. In 1746 the area was bought by the City of Vienna and declared a suburb of its own, which was named Strozzigrund in honor of the Countess.

In 1862 the Strozzigasse in Vienna- Josefstadt (8th district) was named after her.

literature

• Richard Perger: The nobility in the Josefstadt in the 18th century. In: Elfriede Faber (Ed.): “Palaces, Gardens, Small Houses”: the becoming of Josefstadt (= District Museum Josefstadt: messages, reports, notes, No. 1). District Museum Josefstadt, Vienna 1994, DNB 961940166
• Christine Klusacek, Kurt Stimmer: Josefstadt: Beiseln, stages, officials. Mohl, Vienna 1991, ISBN 978-3-900272-40-1