Baroness Wilhelmine of Dörnberg

Caroline Wilhelmine Henriette Christine ( Mimi, born March 6, 1803 Ansbach, † May 14, 1835 in Nuremberg) was Reichsfreiin of Dörnberg.

Life

The daughter of the former royal Prussian Vice President and Director of the domain Chamber of Ansbach, the baron Conrad Heinrich Ernst Friedrich von Dörnberg, and the Baroness Wilhelmine Sophie von Glauburg married on August 24, 1828 in Regensburg Prince Maximilian Karl von Thurn und Taxis. She comes in part from a Protestant Hessian noble family and was not on the other, according to the civil laws splendid, even after the princely House of Thurn und Taxis Act of 1776, her husband, par.

Despite the strong opposition of the royal house, especially the Princess Therese von Thurn und Taxis, born Duchess Therese of Mecklenburg, and King Ludwig I of Bavaria, cousin Prince Maximilian Karl von Thurn und Taxis, they still got married and had five children.

In 1834 ill " Mimi " on a hard drive to the Thurn and Taxis possessions in Bohemia ( Castle Chraustowitz / Chroustovice ). At the beginning of 1835, the Princess went to Nuremberg to start homeopathic treatment with Dr. Reuter. Hopefully she wrote a friend that she was pleased the recovered life, whose Flämmmchen was so close to extinction. But she was wrong, because on May 14, 1835 died Princess Wilhelmine von Thurn und Taxis.

For Mimi St. Emmeram was built in Regensburg, the crypt chapel of the Princely Residence Castle Thurn and Taxis'schen. Here Prince and Princess and unmarried children of the House of Thurn and Taxis to be buried today.

Progeny

• Karl Wilhelm ( 1829)
• Theresa Mathildie Amalie Friederike Eleonore (1830-1883)
• Maximilian Anton Lamoraal (1831-1867)
• Egon (1832-1892)
• Theodor Georg (1834-1876)