Princess Marie Victoire d'Arenberg

Maria Victoria Pauline d'Arenberg ( born October 26, 1714 Brussels, † April 13, 1793 in Strasbourg ) was the wife of the Margrave Georg August Simpert of Baden.

Life

Maria Victoria Pauline d'Arenberg, daughter of Duke Leopold of Arenberg, a strict Catholic education was to be divided. She was taught primarily in artistic and musical things. On December 7, 1735, she married the Margrave Georg August Simpert of Baden. The marriage produced no adult children are left, so that the Margrave of Baden- Baden line went out and reunited with the line of Baden -Durlach.

My great fortune they related to non-profit foundations, mainly in the interest of the Catholic Church. She was a childhood friend of the Empress Maria Theresa.

Maria Victoria Pauline d'Arenberg was devoted to the care of children and the Catholic education of young girls. You can build a convent and shall convene Alt- Breisach Augustinian Choir, female, for information to Rastatt. In 1767 she bequeathed a large portion of their assets to a foundation for the preservation of the school beyond her death.

1774 moved Maria Victoria Pauline residence from Baden -Baden to Ottersweier to set up there in the former residence of the Jesuit house a convent school. In the convent school young girls learned all the skills they needed as future mothers and educators.

In 1877, the Rastatt female teaching and educational institute is dissolved and handed over to the public elementary teaching of the Catholic female youth in the context of the reform of the school system. The Choir, female moving to Goldstein in Salzburg and the Foundation of the Marchioness is secularized.

Alliance Coat of Arms

The red in gold aggregate of sandstone arms of alliance August George and Mary Victoria, was originally located above the portal of the chapel of the convent, which donated the Countess for the Catholic girls' school in 1767.

• House of Arenberg
• Margravine (Baden- Baden)
• German
• Born in 1714
• Died in 1793
• Woman