Duchess Maria Dorothea of Württemberg
Princess Maria Dorothea of Württemberg (full name: Maria Dorothea Luise Wilhelmine Caroline of Württemberg; born 1 November 1797 in Carlsruhe ( Pokój ), Silesia, † March 30, 1855 in Budapest) was through the marriage of Archduchess of Austria and Palatinissa of Hungary.
Life
Maria Dorothea was the first of five children of Duke Ludwig of Württemberg, called Louis, and his second wife Princess Henrietta of Nassau -Weilburg, daughter of Prince Karl Christian and Princess Caroline of Orange-Nassau -Diez. Your paternal grandparents were Duke Friedrich Eugen of Württemberg and the niece of the Prussian King Frederick II, Princess Friederike Dorothea of Brandenburg- Schwedt Sophia.
The Württemberg Princess enjoyed a choice and comprehensive education. Furthermore, the young princess was a large choice of musical talent. This was by none other than, encouraged and influenced by the composer Carl Maria von Weber, Louis the Duke had set as private secretary as well as a private tutor.
On August 24, 1819 married Princess Maria Dorothea in Kirchheim unter Teck Archduke Joseph Anton Johann of Austria, Palatine of Hungary, seventh son of Emperor Leopold II of Habsburg -Lorraine and Maria Luisa de Borbón, Infanta of Spain. The marriage produced five children:
- Elisabeth ( * / † 1820)
- Alexander (1825-1837)
- Elisabeth Franziska Maria (1831-1903)
- Joseph Karl Ludwig (1833-1905), General of Cavalry
- Marie Henriette (1836-1902)
The Archduke's family resided in the castle of oven. Maria Dorothea, a Protestant princess, found no recognition from the imperial house in Vienna or of its members in Hungary, not only simply because of their unusual religious affiliation. For the Hungarian Protestants who stood firm and educated princess was a stroke of luck. In 1819, Archduchess Maria Dorothea introduced the Christmas tree in Hungary, a long time the name Dorothee tree was in use.
After the death of her husband in 1847, the Archduchess had to leave with their children Hungary. Are likely to remain at your desire in Hungary, leaning her nephew, Emperor Ferdinand I, in a counter- agreed marriage contract. She was banished as it were, to Vienna, probably because of their consciously lived Protestant faith. Maria Dorothea also maintained an interest in Hebrew literature and believed in the return of the Jews to the Holy Land. She was friends with Rabbi Lazar Horowitz and made 1851 his prayers towards the ordered expulsion of hundreds of Jewish families in Vienna reversed.