Elisabeth Auguste was born in Mannheim on 17 January 1721. After the early death of her parents, she and her two younger sisters grew up with their grandfather Elector Carl Philipp at the Electoral Palatinate court in Mannheim and Schwetzingen. To secure the succession in the Electoral Palatinate, she was betrothed to her cousin Carl Theodor, who was four years younger, as early as 1733. The magnificent wedding took place on her 21st birthday in Mannheim. In the same year, 1742, Carl Philipp died and Elisabeth Auguste became the wife of the reigning Elector Carl Theodor. Elisabeth Auguste was a strong-willed, influential and fun-loving personality who loved music, theatre and above all hunting. Carl Theodor, rather introverted and melancholic, only slowly began to free himself from the dominance of his rank-conscious wife. After the long-awaited progenitor died shortly after birth in 1761, the electoral couple became increasingly estranged from each other. From then on, Electress Elisabeth Auguste spent the summer months at her castle in Oggersheim, where she promoted the Marian pilgrimage there. Revered as the mother of her country, she died on 17 August 1794 in Weinheim, where she had fled from the French Revolutionary troops. Her last resting place was in the Jesuit Church of St. Michael in Munich.
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