Anne of Denmark, Electress of Saxony

Princess Anne of Denmark ( born November 22, 1532 Haderslev, † October 1, 1585 in Dresden ), called " Mother Anna ," was Electress of Saxony.

Life

The daughter of King Christian III. of Denmark learned from her mother Dorothea spinning, needlework, collecting medicinal herbs, home, agriculture. In the capital of Saxony town of Torgau in 1548, she married August of Saxony ("Father August "). Eleven of their 15 children died early. Before each birth she put trimmed their shrouds, so that they would in an emergency at hand. She washed and buttered himself, she nursed her husband and tried to gain influence on affairs of state.

In court officials, a lampoon was about " Gynäkokratie " ( Weiberherrschaft ) at the Saxon court. Elector August came in so frenzied rage that he even changed his religious affiliation: now he had before the followers of Melanchthon, the Philippists favors, so he joined the orthodox Lutherans. His chancellor George Cracow died of torture, Philippist doctor Caspar Peucer went to jail (he had let herself be caught on the following epistolary utterance: "If we had mother Annen only, it shall not have need, the men we wanted to get well soon " ), others went into exile. To celebrate this event, the orthodox Lutherans were a medal struck "In memory of the victory of orthodoxy over reason ." Anna, very pleased with this development as it was close to the orthodoxy itself, took the old law of the princesses, loszubitten prisoners, not to complete. She remained irreconcilable, as their daughter Elizabeth married a Calvinist, and urged the young woman to stay away from the service at the court of her husband, which resulted in a serious marriage crisis. The Count Palatine Johann Casimir of simmering finally forbade the correspondence of his wife with her ​​mother, she took him on as a secret correspondence. When Elizabeth gave birth to a dead child, her mother wrote that it was better that their child is dead, as a Calvinist.

"Mother Anna " operating in their agriculture Ostravorwerk and in the kennel garden Dresden, dealt with medicine and pharmacy ( they invented a famous stomach paving, laid in 1581 at the Dresden court pharmacy, invented eyes water, antidotes, Aquavit burned, etc.). In the Anna castle named after her she had set up two laboratories and compiled an "art book" with recipes. She was in correspondence with famous doctors and trained young girls in herbalism from. Anna looked after refugees, pregnant women and the sick. She founded the Anne Church before the Wilsdruffer gate where you called Anne monument of Robert Henze was built in honor of 1869. After the destruction of Dresden in 1945, the damaged monument was erected next to the ceremonial hall of the Old Anne Cemetery in Dresden. Since 20 May 2011, the monument is about 50 meters away from the old location again before Anne's Church.

Anna died in 1585 in Dresden to the plague. She was buried in Freiberg Cathedral.

Progeny

• Johann Heinrich ( † 1550), Elector of Saxony
• Eleonore (2 May 1551 - April 24, 1553 )
• Elisabeth (October 18, 1552 - April 2, 1590 ), married to John Casimir of the Palatinate - simmering
• Alexander ( February 21, 1554 - October 8, 1565 ), Elector of Saxony
• Magnus ( September 24, 1555 - November 6, 1558 )
• Joachim ( May 3, 1557 - November 21, 1557 )
• Hector ( October 7, 1558 - April 4, 1560)
• Christian (October 29, 1560 - September 25, 1591 ), succeeded his father as Elector
• Marie ( March 8, 1562 - January 6, 1566)
• Dorothea ( October 4, 1563 - February 13, 1587, married to Heinrich Julius of Brunswick- Wolfenbüttel )
• Amalie ( January 28, 1565 - July 2, 1565 )
• Anna ( January 16, 1567 - January 27, 1613 ), 1586-1593 married to Johann Casimir of Saxe- Coburg
• August (October 23, 1569 - February 12, 1570 )
• Adolf ( August 8, 1571 - March 12 1572)
• Friedrich ( June 18, 1575 - January 24, 1577)