Stephanie of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen

Stephanie Josepha Antonia Friederike Wilhelmine von Hohenzollern -Sigmaringen ( born July 15, 1837 in Krauchenwies; † July 17, 1859 in Lisbon ) was a Princess of Hohenzollern -Sigmaringen and by marriage Queen of Portugal.

Life

Stephanie was the daughter of Prince Karl Anton of Hohenzollern- Sigmaringen (1811-1885) and Josephine (1813-1900), daughter of Grand Duke Carl von Baden at Castle Krauchenwies. She had five siblings, including the future King Carol I of Romania and the Spanish pretender Leopold. Up to her marriage to Stephanie lived with her family in Dusseldorf, where her father, the last sovereign of the Principality of Hohenzollern -Sigmaringen, had moved into the residence in the function of a Prussian division commander, in Stephanie's 15th birthday, the Jägerhof castle. The princess has been artistically designed, among others, Heinrich Mücke in painting and Clara Schumann at the piano.

She married on 18 May 1858 in Lisbon, King Peter V of Portugal. Back in December of last year, the engagement of the couple was held in Dusseldorf. After Portugal had accompanied her brother Leopold and the Prussian master of ceremonies Rudolf von Stillfriedplatz - Rattonitz. The latter was awarded the collection as Count of Alcantara on the Portuguese grandees.

Stephanie died only a year after the wedding, deeply mourned by the Portuguese population, aged 22 years, of diphtheria, which Peter V. replied in a deep depression. Because of her early death, the marriage remained childless with Peter. Her husband died only two years after her.

Stephanie is interred in the Braganza Pantheon of the Monastery of São Vicente de Fora in Lisbon.

Reception

In Dusseldorf and later in Lisbon, the charity working Stephanie was the people as " angel of the poor " is a term. Just a year after her death, a memorial was erected in Dusseldorf: The bust of Queen on a black marble column was created by Schadow students Julius Bayerle. The Memorial to the Princess Stephanie of Hohenzollern in 1890 renewed by the sculptor Josef Tüshaus. The poet Wolfgang Müller of King Winter 1859 wrote a poem that laments the death of Stephanie.

Every year on May 2, commemorate the shooters Düsseldorf Queen Stephanie on Remembrance Day. In the city center of Dusseldorf Stephanie Street ( convent road to Leopold Road ) commemorates the Hohenzollerin, just after Stephanie a hospital in Lisbon is named.