Therese Wilhelmine von Pollheim-Winkelhausen
Therese Wilhelmine von Pollheim-Winkelhausen (* around 1680 in Westphalia ; † March 1, 1757 in Lindau ) was a countess, Obersthofmeisterin of the Electorate of the Palatinate and from 1743 to 1757 princess of the Lindau canon monastery .
Live and act
Therese Wilhelmine came from the Bergisch noble family von Winkelhausen and came as a young girl to the Dietkirchen monastery in Bonn .
She became the first lady-in-waiting at the Palatinate court and chief stewardess of the children of Elector Karl III. Philip . She was held in high esteem by both him and his daughter Elisabeth Auguste Sofie von der Pfalz and held her position for over 10 years (13 years as Chief Chamberlain according to the funeral sermon). In 1723 the noblewoman married the widowed Count Andreas Ehrenreich von Pollheim, who was prime minister of Augsburg, and later president of the secret council of Pfalz-Neuburg . He died in 1735; the couple remained childless.
As a widow, Therese Wilhelmine von Pollheim-Winkelhausen used all of her property to restore the burned down collegiate church of Our Lady in Lindau . In this context, the local abbess Maria Anna Margaretha von Gemmingen resigned from her office and left it to the founder in 1743. Already in 1742 she had financed a splendid pulpit in the Mannheim parish church of St. Sebastian , which she and her deceased husband bear alliance coat of arms Pollheim / Winkelhausen . The design came from Alessandro Galli da Bibiena . She also donated a side altar in the Schwetzingen parish church of St. Pankratius around 1739 , with the same alliance coat of arms. Now she had the Lindau collegiate church rebuilt by the Palatinate builder Johann Caspar Bagnato . There, too, in a central place, above the choir arch, is her alliance coat of arms, now with the attributes of an imperial duchess.
In January 1757 Therese Wilhelmine von Pollheim-Winkelhausen drew up her will and died - according to a funeral sermon published in print - on March 1st of the same year, at the age of "about 78 years" . She was buried under the choir arch of the Lindau collegiate church. Her predecessor succeeded her again in office.
Right side altar, cath. Church of St. Pankratius, Schwetzingen, with the Countess's alliance coat of arms
Alliance coat of arms of the countess on the right side altar of the cath. Church of St. Pankratius, Schwetzingen
Pulpit in Mannheim, St. Sebastian
Pulpit with coat of arms
Choir arch of the Lindau collegiate church, with coat of arms
Interior view of the Lindau Collegiate Church, with the central coat of arms
literature
- New genealogical-historical news of the most distinguished events that happened at the European courts , Part 131. Leipzig 1761, p. 34 ( digital scan of Therese Wilhelmine von Pollheim-Winkelhausen ).
- Digital scan of the funeral sermon from 1757
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Website on the von Winkelhausen family
- ↑ Our parish church St. Sebastian, Mannheim. Schnell Kunstführer No. 1079, 2005, ISBN 3-7954-4805-0 , p. 16
- ^ The Catholic Churches of Schwetzingen , Kunstverlag Josef Fink, Lindenberg, 2014, ISBN 978-3-89870-539-4 , pp. 14-16
- ^ Jost Kloft: Inventory of the document archive of the princes of Hatzfeldt-Wildenburg zu Schoenstein-Sieg , Volume V. Rheinland-Verlag, 1988, ISBN 3792710536 , p. 426 ( detail scan ).
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| SURNAME | Pollheim-Winkelhausen, Therese Wilhelmine von |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Winkelhausen, Therese Wilhelmine von (name at birth); Pollheim, Therese Wilhelmine from |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Countess, Obersthofmeisterin of the Electorate of the Palatinate and abbess of the Lindau Canon Church (1743–1757) |
| DATE OF BIRTH | around 1680 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Westphalia |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 1, 1757 |
| Place of death | Lindau |