Sidonie of Saxony (1834–1862)
Maria Sidonie Ludovica (also Sidonia ; born August 16, 1834 at Pillnitz Castle near Dresden; † March 1, 1862 in Dresden ) was a Duchess of Saxony. The princess was named after Sidonia of Bohemia , the ancestor of the Albertine line of the Wettin family .
family
Sidonie was the third of six daughters of Johann von Sachsen and Amalie Auguste von Bayern . She also had three older brothers, the later Kings Albert and Georg and Prince Ernst, who died at the age of 16.
When she was born, it was not foreseeable that her father would one day become king himself. Her grandfather Maximilian had only renounced his succession to the throne four years earlier in favor of his eldest son Friedrich August , who was also appointed co-regent of the aged King Anton . Only after Anton's death (1836) and the accidental death of Friedrich August II (1854), who remained without a legitimate son, was Johann crowned head of the Kingdom of Saxony .
Sidonie's mother Amalie Auguste was a daughter of the Bavarian King Maximilian I Joseph . Her twin sister Elisabeth Ludovika was Queen of Prussia from 1840 to 1861 by marriage, her younger sister Maria Anna of Bavaria was Amalie Auguste's predecessor as Queen of Saxony (1836–1854) and her twin sister Sophie Friederike was Archduchess of Austria and mother of Emperor Franz Joseph I.
Life
The princess was born on August 16, 1834 around 6 a.m. at Pillnitz Castle, southeast of Dresden, which Johann's family lived in until his accession to the throne.
In addition to Maria Anna of Prussia , Sidonie was a possible candidate for marriage for the young Emperor Franz Josef I, who also stayed several times in Saxony with his friend and cousin Albert. The Archduchess of Austria was ultimately able to establish a stronger bond with the Wittelsbachers by marrying him in August 1853 to one of the daughters of her sister Ludovika Wilhelmine , who was married in Bavaria : Sisi .
In the spring of 1853, the Prince-Regent of Baden, Friedrich, campaigned for Sidonie; in the opinion of her father Johann, the union failed because of the different denominations. Marriages of Johann's children, although not all based on purely personal affection, should generally not be exclusively politically motivated connections. In addition to a befitting marriage, "domestic happiness" for his children was important to him, so that in 1855 he did not see a suitable partner for Sidonia in the widowed King Victor Emanuel II of Sardinia-Piedmont, but with her older sister, Princess Elisabeth of Savoy-Carignan , traveled to Italy for a personal meeting. Jérôme Napoleon , cousin of the French Emperor Napoleon III , who stayed in Pillnitz in 1857 . , encountered prejudice and rejection not only with the royal couple, but also with Sidonie, so that he gave up his advertising intentions for them.
Since the royal marriage policy was not aimed at a quick marriage and other candidates also failed, the 27-year-old Sidonie was unmarried when she died of typhus on March 1, 1862 at half past seven in Dresden after an illness lasting several weeks . She was buried in the Great Crypt in the Catholic Court Church.
The death of the princess, who was a cousin of the Bavarian King Maximilian II, was also commemorated in Munich . The chamber ball planned for March 5th was canceled and a 14-day court mourning was ordered.
Honors
Sidonienstraße , located southeast of Dresden's old town center in Seevorstadt , was named after her in 1855 . As a result of the redesign of the road network after the destruction of the Second World War, it now connects Wiener Straße with St. Petersburger Straße as a westbound lane , and it also connects both streets to the westward tube of the Wiener Platz tunnel . Sidonienstraße originally ran to Prager Straße .
The municipality of Radebeul , located northwest of Dresden, named the street at Radebeul train station after the deceased princess in 1874 .
ancestors
Footnotes
- ↑ Prince Johann in a letter to Friedrich Wilhelm IV on August 16, 1834 : "The child will be named Sidonie after our ancestral mother." Quoted from Johann Georg, Duke of Saxony : Five newly found letters from King John of Saxony . In: Sächsischer Altertumsverein (Hrsg.): New archive for Saxon history and antiquity . tape 44 . Dresden 1923, p. 151 ( digital copy from SLUB Dresden).
- ↑ Julius Schladebach : Johann, King of Saxony: His life and work up to his accession to the throne . Franz Sturm, Leipzig 1854, p. 16 ( online in Google Book Search).
- ^ Michaela Vocelka, Karl Vocelka: Franz Joseph I .: Emperor of Austria and King of Hungary . CH Beck, 2015, ISBN 978-3-406-68287-2 ( limited preview in Google book search).
- ^ A b Silke Marburg : European high nobility: King Johann von Sachsen (1801–1873) and the internal communication of a social formation . Walter de Gruyter, 2008, ISBN 978-3-05-004344-9 , p. 290 ( limited preview in Google Book Search).
- ^ Silke Marburg: European nobility: King Johann von Sachsen (1801–1873) and the internal communication of a social formation . Walter de Gruyter, 2008, ISBN 978-3-05-004344-9 , p. 263 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
- ^ Bavarian courier . No. 62 . Munich March 4, 1862, p. 421 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
- ^ Adolf Hantzsch : Name book of the streets and squares of Dresden (= messages of the Society for the History of Dresden . No. 17, 18 ). Wilhelm Baensch, Dresden 1905, p. 135 ( digitized version ).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Sidonie of Saxony |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Maria Sidonie Ludovica of Saxony; Sidonia of Saxony |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Duchess of Saxony, daughter of King Johann |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 16, 1834 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Pillnitz Castle near Dresden |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 1, 1862 |
| Place of death | Dresden |