Wilhelmine von Dörnberg

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Wilhelmine von Dörnberg, lithograph by Bodmer after a painting by Joseph Karl Stieler

Wilhelmine Caroline Christine Henriette , nickname Mimi (born March 6, 1803 in Ansbach ; † May 14, 1835 in Nuremberg ), was a princess of Thurn and Taxis from the family of the imperial barons of Dörnberg .

Life

The daughter of the former royal Prussian vice-president and director of the Domain Chamber in Ansbach, Baron Konrad Heinrich Ernst Friedrich von Dörnberg (1769–1828), and Baroness Wilhelmine Sophie von Glauburg (1775–1835) married Prince Maximilian in Regensburg on August 24, 1828 Karl von Thurn and Taxis . She came from a Protestant Hessian noble family and was not befitting her husband according to the statute-lordly laws, even according to the princely Thurn and Tax house law of 1776. Despite the fierce resistance of his mother, Princess Therese von Thurn und Taxis , and his cousin, King Ludwig I of Bavaria , the couple married anyway and had five children in a short time.

Wilhelmine Freiin von Dörnberg, around 1830

In 1834 "Mimi" fell seriously ill on a trip to the Thurn und Taxis estates in Bohemia (Chraustowitz Castle / Chroustovice ). At the beginning of 1835, the princess went to Nuremberg to receive homeopathic treatment from Dr. Reuter to begin. Hopefully she wrote to a friend that she was looking forward to the regained life, the little flame of which was so close to extinction . But she was wrong, because on May 14, 1835 Princess Wilhelmine von Thurn und Taxis died in the seventh year of marriage at the age of only 32 years.

The crypt chapel was built for Mimi in the Princely Thurn and Taxis residence palace St. Emmeram in Regensburg. Prince Maximilian Karl had their hearts buried separately in the crypt . On a bronze box, which contains a bust of the sculptor Christian Daniel Rauch in addition to her heart urn , there is a verse of the prince: Here my happiness rests, here her heart sleeps, here love laments eternal pain . The prince and princess and unmarried children of the Thurn and Taxis family are buried in the crypt chapel of St. Emmeram Castle.

progeny

  • Karl Wilhelm (1829)
  • Theresia Mathildie Amalie Friedrike Eleonore (1830-1883)
  • Maximilian Anton Lamoral (1831–1867)
  • Egon (1832-1892)
  • Theodor Georg (1834–1876)

literature

  • Martin Dallmeier, Martha Schad: The Princely House of Thurn and Taxis . Friedrich Pustet Verlag Regensburg 1996.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dallmeier, Schad, p. 98.

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personal data
SURNAME Dörnberg, Wilhelmine von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Dörnberg, Wilhelmine Caroline Christine Henriette von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Free lady of Dörnberg
DATE OF BIRTH March 6, 1803
PLACE OF BIRTH Ansbach
DATE OF DEATH May 14, 1835
Place of death Nuremberg