Regina of Saxe-Meiningen

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Regina of Habsburg

Regina Helene Elisabeth Margarete Princess of Saxony-Meiningen (born January 6, 1925 in Würzburg ; † February 3, 2010 in Pöcking ) was a member of the House of Saxony-Meiningen and was named Regina von Habsburg after she married Otto von Habsburg .

Life

Childhood and youth

Regina was the youngest of four children of the former Hereditary Prince Georg von Sachsen-Meiningen (1892-1946) and his wife Klara-Marie Countess von Korff called Schmising-Kerssenbrock (1895-1992), a daughter of Count Alfred von Korff and Freiin Helena by Hilgers. Although the House of Sachsen-Meiningen was actually Protestant, Regina was brought up Catholic according to her mother's denomination. Regina grew up on the Heldburg in southern Thuringia. Her father, who was a judge in Meiningen , died on her 21st birthday in 1946 at the age of 53 in Soviet captivity. The mother fled to West Germany with Regina. There Regina met Otto von Habsburg in 1949 in a home for Hungarian refugees in Munich, where she worked for Caritas .

Marriage and offspring

On May 10, 1951, Regina and Otto von Habsburg (1912–2011), son of Emperor Karl I of Austria and Zita Maria delle Grazie di Borbone , Principessa di Parma, married with the blessing of Pope Pius XII. in the Église des Cordeliers in Nancy , not according to their wishes in Mariazell , as they were not allowed to enter Austria. For this reason, a copy of the Mariazell Mother of Grace adorned the altar.

From May 10, 1954, her permanent residence, together with Otto von Habsburg-Lothringen, was the Villa Austria (or “Imperial Villa”) in Pöcking on Lake Starnberg .

The connection resulted in seven children, 22 grandchildren and two great-grandchildren:

  • Andrea Maria (born May 30, 1953 in Würzburg)
⚭ 1977 Karl Eugen Graf von Neipperg
  • Monika Maria Roberta Antonia Raphaela (born September 13, 1954 in Würzburg)
⚭ 1980 Luis María Gonzaga de Casanova-Cárdenas y Barón, Duke of Santangelo
  • Michaela Maria Madeleine Kiliana (born September 13, 1954 in Würzburg)
⚭ 1984–1994 Eric Alba Teran d'Antin
⚭ 1994 Hubertus Graf von Kageneck
⚭ 1978–1997 Christian Meister
⚭ 1992 Archibald Douglas
⚭ 1993 Francesca, b. Thyssen-Bornemisza
⚭ 1997 Eilika, b. Duchess of Oldenburg

Later years

View into the crypt of the fortress Heldburg

On December 2, 2005, Regina suffered a stroke and was admitted to a Nancy hospital. Three months later she recovered so well that she was able to take part in the ceremonial transfer of the remains of her mother and brother Anton-Ulrich from the cemetery in Heldburg (Hildburghausen district) to the restored crypt on the Heldburg Fortress.

In 2007, Regina received back 47 paintings from the Friedenstein Castle Foundation , which came from her father's collection and had been expropriated without compensation after the Second World War in the Soviet occupation zone, along with all the family's possessions. However, four of the paintings remain on permanent loan at Friedenstein Castle in Gotha . Her father, Duke Georg, died in Soviet captivity in 1946.

Regina died on February 3, 2010 in Pöcking and was also buried on February 10, 2010 in the crypt on the Veste Heldburg . After the death of her husband on July 4, 2011, her coffin was transferred to Austria and buried at his side on July 16 in the Capuchin Crypt in Vienna . Regina's heart, which is kept in its own container, remains at the Veste Heldburg.

Her brother Friedrich Alfred von Sachsen-Meiningen (1921–1997) renounced the dynastic succession and became a Carthusian monk under the pseudonym Dom Marianus Marck .

Honors

Regina shared the patronage of the Münchner Tafel with Claus Hipp .

A variety of fuchsia is named in honor of Regina .

Web links

Commons : Regina von Sachsen-Meiningen  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Last rest on the Veste Heldburg , Neue Presse February 5, 2010
  2. https://www.mariazell.at/2011/07/07/otto-von-habsburg-war-mit-mariazell-sehr-verbunden/
  3. ^ Regina von Habsburg died . FAZ, February 4, 2010
  4. Burial in the Capuchin Crypt. In: orf.at , July 4, 2011, accessed on November 21, 2017.
  5. ^ Veste Heldburg: Regina von Habsburgs Herz remains in the family crypt ( Memento from March 24, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) MDR Thuringia, July 6, 2011
  6. Fuchsias: Regina von Habsburg, Josef Gindl 2007 ( Memento from July 25, 2007 in the web archive archive.today )