Sophia of Saxony-Weißenfels (1684–1752)
Sophia von Sachsen-Weißenfels (born August 2, 1684 in Weißenfels , † May 6, 1752 in Roßwald near Hotzenplotz ) was a born princess of Saxony-Weißenfels from the house of the Albertine Wettins and through two marriages from October 16, 1699 to 18. December 1726 Margravine of Brandenburg-Bayreuth and from July 14, 1734 to May 6, 1752 Countess of Hoditz and Wolframitz.
Life
Sophia was a daughter of Duke Johann Adolf I of Saxe-Weissenfels (1649–1697) from his marriage to Johanna Magdalena (1656–1686), daughter of Duke Friedrich Wilhelm II of Saxe-Altenburg .
She married Margrave Georg Wilhelm von Brandenburg-Bayreuth (1678–1726) in Leipzig on October 16, 1699 , whom she had met while visiting the Leipzig Trade Fair in the same year. Georg Wilhelm took the associated establishment of his own court as an opportunity to build the margravial palace in Erlangen .
Sophia had a significant influence on the cultural life in Bayreuth , which was described as the prime of the German Singspiel. Sophia brought her fondness for German operas from Weißenfels, the only residence where works were performed exclusively in German. The margravine developed a lavish court with numerous merrymaking, which increased the debt burden of the country. In 1705 the foundation stone for a church was laid in Sankt Georgen , which was named in honor of the Margravine Sophienkirche .
The superficial character of the margravine made the marriage with Georg Wilhelm unhappy. Her flirtation with a Swedish baron angered the margrave so much that he beat the baron away from the table with a stick and had his wife brought to the Plassenburg .
After the death of her husband, with the permission of the new Margrave Georg Friedrich Karl , she moved into her widow's residence in the castle in Erlangen , where she lived for 8 years. Originally, it was assigned to Neustadt an der Aisch by Karl August von Brandenburg-Kulmbach as a widow's residence.
The “mouth cook” of the widowed margravine was Johann Albrecht Grunauer, the innkeeper of the “black eagle in Christian-Erlangen ” and author of a widely distributed cookbook that was printed and published in Nuremberg in 1733 .
At the age of 50, Sophia married the 28-year-old Count Albert Joseph von Hoditz and Wolframitz (1706–1778) on July 14, 1734 . Due to the marriage, Sophia converted to Catholicism and received an annual pension from the imperial court in Vienna.
After her death, Sophia was cremated in 1752. The burial of the countess was the first cremation in the German-speaking area since burials in the non-Christianized parts of the German Empire in the 13th century.
progeny
From her first marriage to Georg Wilhelm, Sophia had the following children:
- Christiane Sophie Wilhelmine (1701–1749)
- Christian Wilhelm (* / † 1706)
- Eberhardine Elisabeth (1706–1709)
- Christian Friedrich Wilhelm (* / † 1709)
- Franz Adolf Wilhelm (* / † 1709)
literature
- Dieter J. Weiss: Barock in Franken , JH Röll, Dettelbach 2004, p. 86 f. ( Digitized version )
- Martin Schieber: Erlangen: an illustrated history of the city , Verlag CH Beck, Munich 2002, p. 49 ( digitized version )
- Johann G. Mayer: News from the political and economic constitution of the principality , p. 11 ff. ( Digitized version )
- EC von Hagen (Ed.): Archive for history and antiquity of Upper Franconia, Volume 5-6 , Bayreuth 1851, p. 4 ff. ( Digitized version )
- Hans-Joachim Böttcher : Christiane Eberhardine - Princess of Brandenburg-Bayreuth, Electress of Saxony and Queen of Poland. Dresdner Buchverlag 2011. ISBN 978-3-941757-25-7 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Hans Joachim Bauer: Baroque Opera in Bayreuth , Laaber 1982, p. 5
- ↑ Historischer Verein für Oberfranken zu Bayreuth: Archive for the history of Upper Franconia, Vol. 5-6, p. 12
- ↑ Christina Hofmann-Randall (ed.): The Erlanger Castle as a widow's seat 1712–1817. Writings from the University Library Erlangen-Nürnberg, 2002.
- ^ Max Döllner : History of the development of the city of Neustadt an der Aisch up to 1933. Ph. C. W. Schmidt, Neustadt a. d. Aisch 1950, OCLC 42823280 ; New edition to mark the 150th anniversary of the Ph. C. W. Schmidt publishing house, Neustadt an der Aisch 1828–1978. Ibid 1978, ISBN 3-87707-013-2 , p. 327.
- ↑ Johann Albrecht Grunauer: The complete and enlarged cookbook set up in the newest way. Nuremberg 1733; Reprint, with a foreword by the editor Wolfgang Protzner. Echter, Würzburg 2008.
- ↑ Viviane Deak, Yvonne Grimm, Christiane Köglmaier-Horn, Frank-Michael Schäfer, Wolfgang Protzner: The first coffee houses in Würzburg, Nuremberg and Erlangen. In: Wolfgang Protzner, Christiane Köglmaier-Horn (Ed.): Culina Franconia. (= Contributions to economic and social history. 109). Franz Steiner, Stuttgart 2007, ISBN 978-3-515-09001-8 , pp. 245-264, here: p. 258.
- ↑ Henning Winter: The architecture of the crematoria in the German Empire, 1878-1918 Verlag JH Röll, Dettelbach, 2002, p. 14
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Sophia of Saxony-Weissenfels |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Sophie von Sachsen-Weißenfels |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Margravine of Brandenburg-Bayreuth |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 2, 1684 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Weissenfels |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 6, 1752 |
| Place of death | Roßwald near Hotzenplotz |