Hedwig of Denmark

Hedwig Princess of Denmark (* August 5, 1581 at Frederiksborg Castle in Denmark, † November 26, 1641 at Lichtenburg Castle at Prettin ) was the daughter of King Frederick II of Denmark and Norway and Sophia of Mecklenburg, her marriage to Elector Christian II of Saxony was in September 1602 in Dresden.

Her husband died on June 23, 1611, the widow seat was then Lichtenburg Castle at Prettin. You managed from 1611 to 1641 the offices of Anna Castle, Schweinitz ( with Prettin and Lichtenburg ), Seyda and Schlieben, even a small army at his disposal, as their brother in law, Elector Johann Georg I of Saxony, a squadron of dragoons and a detachment of infantry left as a guard of honor. She cared for churches and schools in her jointure, was in the village of Hohn village ( b.Prettin ) build a church, and renew in Labrun the church of St. Peter and Paul fundamentally. In 1624 they added an old electoral Foundation for the care of her 33 parishes associated with communion wine. This Hedwig Foundation has still work today.

Hedwig fed during the Thirty Years' War, the hungry and erected Pestlazarette, went sharp before against drunk and a gambler, wrote statute labor from the embankment of the river Elbe and subjugated insubordinate communities through Zwangseinquartierung of Dragoons. The Swedish commander Johan Banér sent her a guard of honor of a hundred horses.