Archduchess Elisabeth Franziska of Austria (1892–1930)

Elisabeth Franziska Maria Karolina Ignatia, married Elisabeth, Countess of Waldburg Zeil and Hohenems, (born 27 January 1892 in Vienna, † 29 January 1930 in Castle Syrgenstein ) was born Archduchess of Austria and Princess of Tuscany.

Life

Elisabeth Franziska, called Ella, was the eldest daughter of Archduke Franz Salvator of Austria - Tuscany and Archduchess Marie Valerie of Austria. Thus she was a granddaughter of Emperor Franz Joseph and Sisi, the Empress Elisabeth of Austria, which was also her godmother. Your teacher was Elsa Köhler. From the school year 1903/ 04 visited her and her brother Franz Karl as Privatisten the Schotten Gymnasium in Vienna.

In January 1911 Ella attended her first court ball.

Elisabeth Franziska became engaged on April 8, 1912, Georg Graf von Waldburg Zeil and to Hohenems ( 1878-1955 ), whom she married in Niederwallsee on 19 September 1912. Since your marriage until death they had their residence, where they at times was also active as a painter in Syrgenstein in the Allgäu. She died at age 38 of pneumonia. She was buried in Maria Thann in the Allgäu. On December 29 in 1931, their widowed husband George married her sister Gertrude.

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In the comprehensive 33,000 individual objects collection of journalists and monarchists Raoul Korty ( 1889-1944 ), which was restituted in 2005 by the Austrian National Library and purchased at the request of the owner of the Austrian National Library, there are numerous photographs of the imperial family, and thus also of Elisabeth Franziska. The collection was established in April 2008 under the title In memory of beautiful times - shown pictures from the lost world of the Jewish collector Raoul Korty in the State Hall of the Austrian National Library. Among them was a photo of her grandfather with Elisabeth Franziska. On the website Royal magazine mentions that a tiara of Marie Valerie was later supported by Austria Elisabeth Franziska. Your children stood in 1961 on the courts from 1057 to 1060 a hypothetical British throne, which ignores the exclusion of Catholics, as it was defined in the Act of Settlement.

In 2008, the Vienna Dorotheum two telegrams of Empress Elisabeth auctioned at a starting price of 800 €, one of which was sent in 1896 to the then five- year-old Archduchess Elisabeth Franziska: SAIR l' Archiduchess Ella, Wallsee, Amstetten, Autriche. God bless you. With many kisses your loving Omama.

Ella was at times referred to as the prettiest or one of the prettiest granddaughters of Empress Elisabeth. As a dowry she was given a travel toilet set. The silver parts contained therein came from the purveyor to Josef Carl Klinkosch, the glass objects were made by J. & L. Lobmeyr.

Elisabeth Franziska on a postcard photo, 1905

The archduchesses Ella and Hedwig of Austria - Tuscany ( 1912)

Archduchess Elisabeth Franziska of engagement photo and Count Georg of Waldburg- Zeil - Hohenems 1912

Progeny

• Marie Valerie Waldburg- Zeil (1913-2011)
• Waldburg- Zeil Clementine (1914-1941)
• Waldburg- Zeil Elisabeth (1917-1979)
• Franz Josef Waldburg- Zeil ( * 1927)