Dorothea Diana of Salm

Wild and Rhine Countess Dorothea Diana von Salm ( born July 25, 1604 Criechingen (now Créhange ); † December 19, 1672 in Wörth ) was and as the daughter of wild and Rhine Count Johann von Salm - Kyrburg and Baroness Anna Catherine of Kriechingen chainplates born. An hour after her birth was her twin sister Anna Amalia born, later Countess to Königseck.

Youth and marriage

Your father lost the sisters early, and as their brothers and an uncle served in Sweden, the sisters were with her mother several times at the fleeing Catholic troops. Finally they settled in Strasbourg. There it came to the two successive marriages of Dorothea Diana:

This second marriage allowed her to leave Strasbourg again. The couple lived first of Lichtenberg Castle, later in the Hanau- Lichtenberg residence Buchsweiler. After just one year of marriage and her second husband died. All children from the first marriage of Count Philipp Wolfgang, Count Friedrich Casimir, Johann Philipp and Johann Reinhard ( II ) and their sisters Sophie Eleonore Christine and Agatha, were at that time still a minor. Dorothea Diana took their education and worked well also at the tutelary government of the county with, as they had under tutors little continuity due to several deaths: Guardianship initially took Graf Johann Ernst von Hanau- coins mountain and Baron George II of Fleckenstein - Dagstuhl jointly. George II of Fleckenstein - Dagstuhl was a grandson of Anna Sibylle of Hanau- Lichtenberg, a daughter of Count Philip IV of Hanau- Lichtenberg. When Johann Ernst died in 1642, Georg von Fleckenstein remained as sole guardian. As well as this 1644 died Count George Albert of Erbach practiced from the guardianship until his death in 1647. Since only a few months until the 25th birthday, the legal age date of the oldest stepson of Diana Dorothea, Friedrich Casimir, remained, not a new guardianship was established. 1651 Dorothea Diana left after the step-children were old enough, the residence Buchsweiler and withdrew to her widow seat to Wörth, where she lived until her death.

Death

Dorothea Diana died on 19 December 1672, was buried in Buchsweiler. These appeared a funeral sermon by Günther healer, Superintendent and the consistory of the county of Hanau - Lichtenberg. This also includes contributions from Philipp Jacob Spener, Quirinus Moscherosch and Georg Wilhelm Spener.

Others

Her brother was the Swedish General Otto Ludwig von Salm- Kyrburg - Mörchingen.