Archduchess Gisela of Austria
Gisela Louise Marie, Archduchess of Austria, Princess of Bavaria, ( born July 12, 1856 in Laxenburg, Austria, † July 27, 1932 in Munich ) was a daughter of Emperor Franz Joseph I and Empress Elisabeth.
Life
Gisela was actually baptized Gisella, wrote her name itself but only with an " l". She was the second daughter of Emperor Franz Joseph I of Austria, King of Hungary, and Elizabeth, Empress of Austria and Queen of Hungary.
To her mother Gisela never had an intimate relationship, as Empress Elisabeth was already mother of the first daughter Sophie 17 years and gave birth the following year, Gisela. Elizabeth's mother, Archduchess Sophie, she felt too young and deprived her of the education of her two daughters. Her grandfather Franz Karl took care of the grandchildren. A very close relationship had Gisela to her younger brother Crown Prince Rudolf. Even after Gisela's wedding and the relocation to Bavaria siblings stayed in touch. Rudolf's suicide has life can never overcome. Her mother, who regretted himself to have been married too early, took a husband for the 16 -year-old Gisela eye. She married on 20 April 1873 in Vienna, Prince Leopold of Bavaria, son of Prince Regent Luitpold of Bavaria and Auguste Ferdinands of Austria, her cousin, 2nd degree, and got him four children. In Bavaria, Gisela was warmly welcomed by Leopold family. Her father, Franz Joseph was a welcome guest in the Leopoldine Palais. Even her younger sister Marie Valerie was often to visit. Empress Elisabeth appeared only to be baptized the first daughter Gisela, in which she was the godmother and namesake. But at their wedding, the Empress did not. The mother lived in a hotel rather than with her daughter, which he described what Gisela could not have known in their poems as rascals dry sow and her children as Ferklein.
Her life was determined by social and church involvement. So they taught, for example, during the First World War a military hospital in their Munich palace a. After the collapse she had to flee with her husband from Munich. Also in Ischl, where they arrived with forged passports, they were attacked by the workers' and soldiers and denied them as noble parasites the necessary food. Through its helpful nature, the princess had won in the lower layers sympathies, so we tried many of the former subjects to repay what they had done earlier benefactions, and so the former nobleman could live as normal average citizen.
On April 20, 1923 Gisela and Leopold celebrated their golden wedding anniversary. After 57 years of marriage Leopold died on 28 September 1930. Gisela died in 1932 as the last of the imperial siblings with 76 years surrounded by her family in Munich. She was buried in St. Michael's Church in Munich next to her husband.
According to her, an Austrian railway was named: the Giselabahn from Salzburg Hauptbahnhof on the one hand and on the other hand Selzthal to Wörgl Hauptbahnhof via Bischofshofen, Zell am See and Kitzbühel. The Giselabahn (also Salzburg -Tiroler -Bahn called ) forms a portion of the Empress Elisabeth Railway (named after Gisela's mother) from Vienna to Linz and Wels to Passau and also about Wels, Salzburg and Zell am See to Wörgl, in turn, a portion of the Austrian Western Railway (Vienna - Lindau) forms. In the town of Wörgl - the end point of Giselabahn - there is logically a Giselastraße.
In 1869, at the age of 13 years, Gisela was by imperial approval patroness of the same named Gisela Club, in Germany until 1981 under the name " Gisela General Life and dowry insurance AG " had stock ( today ARAG life insurance AG ). The paddle steamer Gisela from 1871, which still runs on the Traunsee today, is also named after the emperor's daughter.
Personality
Gisela was sober and had by its nature, very much like her father. After the early separation from her brother, who had been prepared early on the role of heir to the throne, she was always quiet and devoted himself with enthusiasm for the tasks it because it appeared to her grandmother very important that they received instruction regarding domestic virtues. In addition, it should also be a good rider and hunter, because it placed great emphasis within the family. The obedient child added to all orders of the grandmother. This sense of family was also later when she took care of her other grandmother Ludovica and they visited quite often.