Victoria Virtue of Kanitz

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Victoria Tugendreich by Kyaw in a portrait in the Hainewalde Church
Coat of arms of the von Kanitz and Kyaw families on the manorial box of the from 1711 under Otto Ludwig von Kanitz and his wife Victoria Tugendreich von Kanitz born. Hainewalde Church built by Kyaw

Victoria Tugendreich von Kanitz (born May 25, 1657 at Gut Gießmannsdorf as Victoria Tugendreich von Kyaw ; † May 27, 1717 in Hainewalde ) was a Silesian and Saxon noblewoman from the von Kyaw family , who made her way through numerous foundations in Hainewalde, Spitzkunnersdorf and Oderwitz deservedly.

Life

Victoria Tugendreich von Kyaw was born in 1657 as the daughter of Joachim Ernst von Kyaw  († 1670) on Gießmannsdorf and Anna Elisabeth von Schönfeld  (1624–1661). After the death of her parents, she was taken in by Johann Georg von Oberländer as a foster child in 1670 , and from 1679 she lived with her brother Johann Wilhelm von Kyaw on Gießmannsdorf.

On January 22nd, 1685 she married Eleuther von Temritz , after his wife Blandina von Gersdorf born. von Rüdinger died on July 19, 1683 and left the Hainewalde , Spitzkunnersdorf and Oderwitz estates to her husband . Von Temritz died a year later on February 19, 1686, but Victoria Tugendreich von Temritz gave birth to her daughter Katharina Blandina Tugendreich on March 20 of the same year, but she too died a short time later on August 25, 1686. The Temritz goods were her on Officially awarded August 11, 1694.

Contrary to her inclination, she married the governor of Torgau Johann Georg von Wehlen  (1652–1711) in 1687 by order of the elector . During this unhappy marriage she fought for the fortification and renovation of the church and had the rectory in Spitzkunnersdorf rebuilt. She left the Wiesenthal estate to her brother for the wedding of Helene Katherine von Schwanitz on October 15, 1698. In 1699, the marriage with von Wehlen was divorced, and a celebration of thanks was celebrated on January 7, 1700 out of joy.

On April 18, 1700 she married the colonel of the Saxon cavalry Otto Ludwig von Kanitz . With him it was built in 1702 the church school and 1705 the Kanitz-Kyawsche tomb in Hainewalde , as well as churches in Hainewalde , Niederoderwitz and Spitzkunnersdorf . In 1703 she donated the hospital in Hainewalde as a poor home for three people each from Hainewalde, Spitzkunnersdorf and Oderwitz. In other ways, too, she made a name for herself through donations and foundations in the parishes of these villages. After her death in 1717, like her husband later, she was buried in the Kanitz-Kyaw crypt.

Individual evidence

  1. The Hainewald “Funeral”. (PDF; 558 kB) (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on December 6, 2013 ; Retrieved February 1, 2010 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / kirche.hainewalde.de
  2. Otto-Bäcker: Excerpt from the chronicle of Spitzkunnersdorf. Retrieved June 14, 2010 .