Maria Amalia of Austria
Maria Amalie Josepha Anna of Austria (* October 22, 1701, † December 11, 1756 ) was the youngest daughter of Emperor Joseph I and the Wilhelmine Amalia of Brunswick- Calenberg. She was the wife of the Bavarian Elector Karl Albrecht, the German nation as a Charles VII Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire.
Life
She was small, self-confident, fun-loving, loved hunting and their dogs. In 1717, she met her future husband Karl Albrecht know, who also visited Vienna on his way to a campaign against the Turks in Belgrade. So he used the time of his stay for political contacts to maintain and got to know the entire imperial family. A second " baptism of fire " Karl Albrecht against the Turks was 1718. On the way back from Belgrade was made a second visit to Vienna. For financial and dynastic reasons Bavaria sought a marriage to a Hapsburg. So Karl Albrecht tried to unlike her sister Marie Amalie lively, although the politically interesting, but sickly first-born Maria Josepha it was already promised. The wedding ceremony took place in Vienna on 5 October 1722. You and Karl Albrecht had previously waived any rights of succession of Habsburg side. The emperor's daughter obtained a rich dowry, including jewelery worth 986,500 guilders. While the ecclesiastical ceremonies represented a climax, the other festivities in Vienna were much less grand than the celebrations, with whom you in Munich celebrated the nuptials the newlyweds. They lasted from the collection of the couple on October 17 to November 4, 1722 and devoured 4 million guilders. Johann Jakob Moser, a contemporary described the relationship: "This wife of Mr. gantz lived happily. Because they wuste with time extremely well to send in his nature, and had almost gehends one of his inclination same Gemüths Style. "
In May 1727 she was the birth of the heir to the throne, Maximilian III. Joseph, the Elector's hunting castle residence Fuerstenried " given to the child bed." 1734 she honored her husband Karl Albrecht with the building named after her Amalienburgstraße in Nymphenburg Park.
Like her mother, she had to fight against numerous mistresses, but enjoyed the lavish life with her husband, where they could pursue their passions hunting, politics and travel page. Hoping for more male births, she completed stays, among other things, in Adelholzen and numerous pilgrimages. Like her mother, she was very pious and encouraged churches and religious orders. With her sister Maria Anna lived as a Poor Clare Monastery in Munich Anger, they had a special friendship.
Despite the Erbverzichts her husband founded from his marriage and their ancestors claims to the Austrian hereditary lands. After agreement with the Elector of Saxony, the Association a similar kinship with the House of Habsburg through her older sister, Maria Amalia was crowned in 1742, among others, to the Queen of Bohemia. The Prince Abbot of Kempten Anselm Reichlin of Meldegg was present when her Erzmarschall at the coronation.
1745 she was a widow and was the heir to the throne, until their eighteen year old son Maximilian III. Joseph convinced of the need for a financial contribution by the ( peace of feet ) with her cousin Maria Theresa. This meant for him to renounce the imperial crown and was the basis for one of the longest peacetime in Bavaria. After that, she lived in another time of her widowhood withdrawn in Castle Fuerstenried. In 1754 she founded a religious house with the hospital Elisabetinerinnen, who settled on the initiative of the Electress in Munich. This first modern medical hospital of Munich, who no longer saw itself as a hospice, was devoted to nursing and training of lay helpers.
Her heart was buried separately and is located in the chapel Altöttings.
Progeny
- Maximiliane Maria ( * / † April 12, 1723 )
- Maria Antonia Walburga (1724-1780), married on 20 June 1747 later Elector of Saxony, Friedrich Christian
- Theresa Benedicte (6 December 1725-29. March 1743 )
- Maximilian III. Joseph (1727-1777), Elector of Bavaria
- Joseph Ludwig (25 August 1728-2. December 1733 )
- Maria Anna Josepha (7 August 1734-7. May 1776 ), married on July 10, 1755 Georg Ludwig of Baden Simpert
- Maria Antonia Josepha (1739-1767) - married to Emperor Joseph II