Maria Viktoria Pauline von Arenberg

Maria Viktoria Pauline von Arenberg (born October 26, 1714 in Brussels , † April 13, 1793 in Strasbourg ) was the wife of Margrave August Georg Simpert von Baden .

Maria Viktoria Pauline von Arenberg

Life

Maria Viktoria Pauline von Arenberg, daughter of Duke Leopold von Arenberg , received a strictly Catholic upbringing . She was mainly taught in artistic and musical matters. On December 7th, 1735 she married the margrave August Georg Simpert von Baden. No adult children remained from the marriage, so that the margravial line of Baden-Baden was extinguished and reunited with the line of Baden-Durlach .

She used her large fortune in charitable foundations, mainly in the interests of the Catholic Church. She was a childhood friend of Empress Maria Theresa .

Maria Viktoria Pauline von Arenberg dedicated herself to the care of children and the Catholic upbringing of young women. She had a women's monastery built and summoned Augustinian choir women from Alt-Breisach to teach in Rastatt. In 1767 she bequeathed a large part of her fortune to a foundation to maintain the school after her death.

In 1774 Maria Viktoria Pauline moved her residence from Baden-Baden to Ottersweier in order to set up a monastery school in the former residence of the Jesuits . In the monastery school, young girls learned all the skills they needed as future mothers and teachers .

In 1877, as part of the reform of the school system, the Rastatt female teaching and education institute was dissolved and given public education to Catholic female youth. The women choir moved to Goldenstein near Salzburg and the Margravine's foundation was secularized.

Alliance coat of arms

The red in gold from sandstone broader alliance coat of arms August George and Maria Victoria was originally located above the portal of the chapel of the convent, which donated the Marchioness for the Catholic girls' school 1767th