Anna Dorothea, Abbess of Quedlinburg

Princess Anna Dorothea of Saxe- Weimar ( * November 12, 1657 in Weimar, † June 24, 1704 in Quedlinburg ) was abbess of Quedlinburg Empire.

Life

Anna Dorothea was a daughter of Duke Johann Ernst II of Saxe -Weimar and his wife Princess Elisabeth Christine of Schleswig -Holstein -Sonderburg ( 1638-1679 ).

From 1681 to 1684 she was provost of the Quedlinburg pin. When the Abbess Anna Sophie II of Hesse -Darmstadt in 1683, died, first the Holstein Princess Anna Dorothea von Holstein -Gottorp was appointed as her successor. But by influencing the pin patron, the Elector of Saxony Johann Georg III. , And by acting on the pin section reached Anna Dorothea, that they themselves elected to the new abbess on September 4 in 1684 and was approved on January 29, 1685 by Emperor Leopold I..

During her time as abbess of a change in the patronage of the monastery took place in 1698. The acquisition of the Polish king throne by Elector Augustus the Strong - he was his father succeeded as patron - devoured such large sums of money that August the Strong was forced to the patronage of 340,000 dollars to the Brandenburg Elector Frederick III. ( 1701 King of Prussia ) for sale.

This change brought about many changes, because the abbess was not only severely limited in its powers, the pin lost beyond numerous possessions. So it is not surprising that Anna Dorothea was little agree with this change, as well as the Quedlinburg citizenship. Anna Dorothea had protested against this sale and refused the Electorate of Brandenburg, the investiture of the protectorate. The Brandenburg elector Quedlinburg then occupying military in January 1698 and in September of the same year was finally the homage of the city a little later the clergy of the congregation. With the new patrons, but also with the advice of the city Quedlinburg, Anna Dorothea was often in contradiction with the cast of pastors.

1703 Anna Dorothea's health was so weakened that she still traveled in the same year to Carlsbad to recover again; but without success. On 24 June 1704, the abbess died at the age of 46 years in Quedlinburg. Your coffin is now in the royal crypt at the Historical Cemetery in Weimar.

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