Princess Charlotte of Saxe-Meiningen

Charlotte, Princess of Saxe -Meiningen (full name Princess Marie Charlotte Amalie Ernestine Wilhelmine Philippine von Sachsen- Meiningen; * September 11, 1751 in Frankfurt am Main, † April 25, 1827 in Genoa) was by marriage a Duchess of Saxe -Gotha - Altenburg.

Life

Charlotte was born as the daughter of the Duke Anton Ulrich von Sachsen -Meiningen and his wife, Charlotte Amalie, née Princess of Hesse - Philippsthal. On March 21, 1769, she married in Meiningen Duke Ernst II of Saxe -Gotha -Altenburg, who in 1772 was followed there on the ducal throne.

Duke Ernst II was an enlightened monarch, a great patron of the arts and sciences, who led his country to a cultural flowering. In these efforts he was supported from Charlotte to forces.

The Duchess looked like her husband as a patron for astronomy. She expected auxiliary panels for the court astronomer Franz Xaver von Zach, she also participated in observations and the astronomer Congress in 1798 in part on the Seeberg Observatory and corresponded independently with leading astronomers of the time.

Duchess Charlotte had with her husband, four sons, including the two later to become the Dukes of Saxe- Gotha -Altenburg August and Friedrich IV.

After the Duke's death in 1804, there were difficulties with the successor of Duke August. She left Gotha with Zach as chief steward and spent some time in Eisenberg. Later she traveled with Zach in the South, lived for several years in Marseille and later in Genoa, where she died in 1827.

Trivia

In the residence city of Gotha Charlotte created a lasting monument to the construction of Teeschlösschens, which was their most popular summer resort. To date, the preferred above the pleasure palace Orangery remembered in the form of a neo-Gothic chapel on the Duchess.