Barbara Franziska of Welz-Wilmersdorf, Date of Birth, Date of Death
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Countess of Welz bu birth, by marriage Countess of Hohenlohe, baroness of Wilhermsdorf in her own right
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About Barbara Franziska of Welz-Wilmersdorf
- Franziska Barbara of Welz-Wilmersdorf (4 August 1666 – 3 April 1718 in Wilhermsdorf) was baroness of Wilhermsdorf.
- She was the daughter of Francis of Welz-Eberstein (1635–1674), Count of Welz, Baron of Eberstein, and Anna Barbara de Gun (1640 – c.
- 1681), daughter of William Gunn (born 1600), Freiherr von Ulm. She married in 1689 the much older Count Wolfgang Julius of Hohenlohe-Neuenstein, widower of Sophie Eleonore of Holstein-Sonderburg-Plön.
- Wolfgang Julius died in 1698 after nine years of marriage at the age of 76.
- The marriage remained childless.
- The legacy of her husband fell to his brother, John Frederick I of Hohenlohe-Öhringen; Franziska Barbara only received the Lordships of Wilhermsdorf and Neidhardswinden, which Wolfgang Julius had bought on 4 May 1667. Three years later, in 1701, she married a 35-year-old second husband, Count Philip Ernest of Hohenlohe-Waldenburg-Schillingsfürst (born: 29 December 1663; died: 29 November 1759).
- Franziska Barbara retained her residence at Wilhermsdorf.
- She had renovated the palace considerably.
- Under her rule Wilhermsdorf experienced its heyday. She realized the construction of the church Julius Wolfgang had planned in the years between 1706 and 1714.
- Between 1707 and 1718, she built the school house in Burgmilchlingstraße, the hospital in Spitalstraße, the Consultant House building (now Wilhermsdorf City Hall) and the Gottesacke Church.
- In Wilhermsdorf she is described as the "benefactress of Wilhermsdorf" even today.
- On 3 April 1718, she died at the age of 51 years.
- She was ceremoniously buried in a magnificent sarcophagus in the crypt of the main Protestant church. From her second marriage to Philip Ernest she had at least one daughter: Caroline Juliane of Hohenlohe-Waldenburg-Schillingsfürst (1706–1758), married Christian Otto of Limburg-Styrum (1694–1749).After her death Philip Ernest married his second wife, Maria Anna of Oettingen-Wallerstein. After Philip Ernest's death, was the fiefs Wilhermsdorf and Neidhardswinden fell to his underage children.
- In 1733, Philip Ernest's son took up the rule of Wilhermsdorf.
- He, too, remained childless, so that in 1769 (or earlier), Wilhermsdorf fell to Philip Ferdinand of Limburg-Styrum, the son of Franziska Barbara's daughter Caroline Juliane.
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