Marie Elisabeth of Mecklenburg

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Marie Elisabeth zu Mecklenburg as dean of Gandersheim (1707)

Marie Elisabeth, Duchess of Mecklenburg (-Schwerin) (* March 24, 1646 ; † April 27, 1713 in Gandersheim ) was a princess from the House of Mecklenburg-Schwerin . From 1712 to 1713 she was Abbess of Gandersheim and thus imperial princess .

Life

Marie Elisabeth was the fourth child from the second marriage of Duke Adolf Friedrich von Mecklenburg-Schwerin to Marie Katharina (1616–1665), daughter of Duke Julius Ernst von Braunschweig-Dannenberg (1571–1636).

After her sister Christina became abbess in 1681, Marie Elisabeth received on December 18, 1682 a prebend as canon in the imperial free secular imperial monastery of Gandersheim .

Already on November 24, 1685 she was elected dean and thus deputy to the abbess. After the death of her sister in 1693, however, she did not become abbess because Duke Anton Ulrich von Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel (1633–1714) pushed through the election of his daughter Henriette Christine von Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel .

Marie Elisabeth then withdrew to Mecklenburg and neglected her residence obligation in Gandersheim, so that the chapter threatened her in 1709 with the withdrawal of her income. In Mecklenburg she succeeded in 1704 with List to become regent (abbess) of the Rühn monastery . This led to the objection of the ruling Duke Friedrich Wilhelm I , her nephew, who had assumed that Rühn would become sovereign property as a chamber property after the death of the regent Juliane Sibylle (1636–1701). The case came before the Imperial Court of Justice and was decided on September 15, 1705 with a settlement in favor of Marie Elisabeth.

The sudden resignation of the abbess Henriette Christine from Gandersheim because of the birth of her illegitimate child brought her back to Gandersheim. After she had signed an electoral surrender on October 29, 1712 , she unanimously elected the chapter abbess on November 3. Her official inauguration took place on December 15, 1712.

However, Marie Elisabeth died the following spring on April 27, 1713. Her enfeoffment with the regalia by Emperor Charles VI. took place posthumously on November 14, 1713.

Mecklenburg tomb in the collegiate church Gandersheim of the abbesses Christina and Maria Elisabeth of Mecklenburg

Christina had a baroque tomb built for herself and her sister in the Marienkapelle of the collegiate church during her lifetime . The inscriptions in Alexandrians on the subject of death and transience are attributed to the pastor Arnold Gottfried Ballenstedt (1660–1722). Christina was buried in this Mecklenburg tomb on August 3, 1693. Marie Elisabeth's sarcophagus followed on October 11, 1713. The tomb, the Grand Duke Friedrich Franz III. Was restored in 1892, is similar to that of her half-sister Sophie Agnes (1625–1694) in the Rühn monastery .

Elisabeth von Sachsen-Meiningen was her successor .

literature

  • Kurt Kronenberg: Abbesses of the Baroque: Lives in Gandersheim, 1665–1713. Bad Gandersheim: Hertel 1961 (From Gandersheim's great past 3)
  • Hans Goetting : The dioceses of the ecclesiastical province of Mainz. The Diocese of Hildesheim I. The imperial canonical monastery Gandersheim. (Germania Sacra NF 7) Berlin: de Gruyter 1971, ISBN 978-3-11-004219-1 ( digitized version )

Web links

Commons : Marie Elisabeth zu Mecklenburg  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Hans Goetting : The dioceses of the ecclesiastical province of Mainz. The Diocese of Hildesheim I. The imperial canonical monastery Gandersheim. (Germania Sacra NF 7) Berlin: de Gruyter 1971, ISBN 978-3-11-004219-1 ( digitized ), p. 355
  2. ↑ Facti species of the Hertzog Friedrich Wilhelm zu Mecklenburg that the princes writing from Creyß are not authorized to appoint the Dean of Gandersheim, Princess Marie Elisabeth of Mecklenburg in the possession and enjoyment of the Rühn monastery office. 1705
  3. ↑ DIO 2, Kanonissenstift Gandersheim, No. 62 (Christine Wulf), in: www.inschriften.net, urn: nbn: de: 0238-dio002g001k0006202
  4. ^ Friedrich Wigger : Directory of the graves of the Grand Ducal House of Meklenburg. In: Yearbooks of the Association for Mecklenburg History and Antiquity 50 (1885), pp. 327–342 ( full text ), here p. 339 lists them (wrongly?) As being buried in Rühn.
  5. ^ Friedrich Schlie : * The art and historical monuments of the Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin . Volume 5: The district courts of Teterow, Malchin, Stavenhagen, Penzlin, Waren, Malchow and Röbel. Schwerin, 1902 ( digitized in the Internet Archive), p. 613
personal data
SURNAME Marie Elisabeth of Mecklenburg
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Marie Elisabeth, Duchess of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Princess from the House of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Abbess of Gandersheim
DATE OF BIRTH March 24, 1646
DATE OF DEATH April 27, 1713
Place of death Gandersheim