Anna Wilhelmine of Anhalt-Dessau
- Anna Wilhelmine of Anhalt-Dessau
Anna Wilhelmine of Anhalt-Dessau (b. Dessau, 13 June 1715 - d. Dessau, 2 April 1780), was a German Princess member of the House of Ascania in the branch of Anhalt-Dessau.
She was the third but second surviving daughter of Leopold I, Prince of Anhalt-Dessau called the "Old Dessauer" (der alte Dessauer) by his morganatic wife Anna Louise Föse, created Imperial Princess of Anhalt in 1701.
Life
As the favourite child of her father, Anna Wilhelmine buy in 1742 the "Gut Mosigkau" near Dessau. The princess, who remained unmarried all her life, began the remodelations of her new home with the choice of an architect from the Saxon school. Since 1757 she spent her summer stays in the new Schloss Mosigkau.
Her talent in finances was notorious when her brother Maurice led her controlled regularly his patrimony and took over during his fatal war injury suffered in 1759 the surveillance about his goods and his staff.
The year of her death Anna Wilhelmine ordered the establishment of a "High nobility lady's convent" (German: "Hochadligen Fräuleinstiftes") in Schloss Mosigkau. The convent existed till 1945. Since then the Schloss is accessible as a museum.
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