Maria Maximiliana from Stadium

Maria Maximiliana von Stadion (complete: Maria Maximiliana Esther von Stadion zu Tannhausen and Warthausen ) (* July 21, 1736 in Mainz , † 1818 in Munich ) was the last abbess of the free-world Buchau women's monastery in today's Bad Buchau am Federsee .

Life

The last abbess Maria Maximiliana von Stadion with canons, coat of arms and a view of the monastery complex

Maria Maximiliana was the daughter of Anton Heinrich Friedrich von Stadion and Maria Anna Augusta Antonia von Sickingen -Hohenburg. She had two brothers and two sisters. Her brother Franz Konrad was the imperial treasurer in Vienna , the other brother Johann Philipp was canon in Mainz. Their inclusion in the monastery is recorded in 1754. On January 18, 1775, she was elected princess abbess by the collegiate chapter with a simple majority. 10 canons and 2 canons took part in the election. There were 3 ballots. In the year of her election, she was able to consecrate the collegiate church of St. Cornelius and Cyprianus redesigned and partially rebuilt by Pierre Michel d'Ixnard . During her reign she tried to find a compromise with the imperial city of Buchau, Austria and the imperial counts . The burdens of war in the form of payments triggered by the coalition wars meant that the finances of the monastery got into trouble. On July 5, 1802, the abbess fled to Munich with archival materials, silver and liturgical implements and from there to Augsburg .

On December 4, 1802, she handed the monastery over to the Prince of Thurn und Taxis , to whom the monastery had been awarded in the Peace Treaty of Lunéville as compensation for the losses on the left bank of the Rhine. The abbess received a sustentation of 8,000 guilders per year until her death . She died on an unknown day in 1818 in Munich.

literature

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 / New York 1994, ISBN 3-11-014214-7 , pp. 245-246 ( digitized version ).

Individual evidence

↑ Bernhard Theil: The free worldly women's monastery Buchau am Federsee. 1994, p. 245.

predecessor	Office	Successor
Maria Karolina von Königsegg	Abbess of Buchau 1775–1802	-

personal data
SURNAME	Stadium, Maria Maximiliana of
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Abbess of the Buchau women's monastery
DATE OF BIRTH	July 21, 1736
PLACE OF BIRTH	Mainz
DATE OF DEATH	1818
Place of death	Munich

[Theil-1] Bernhard Theil: The free worldly women's monastery Buchau am Federsee. 1994, p. 245.