Princess Sophie of Erbach-Erbach

[2] In January 1742, on the occasion of the election of the emperor Charles VII in Frankfurt, she met William Henry II of Nassau-Saarbrücken (* 6 March 1718; † 24 July 1768).

[4] In 1757 she came into contact with the Parisian writer and theater and music critic Friedrich Melchior Baron von Grimm.

Diderot's comedy Le Père de famille contains the dedication "TO HER HOLY HIGHNESS THE PRINCESS OF NASSAU-SARREBRUCK".

[5] In 1750 she wrote the songbook Zarte Liebe fesselt mich, which was republished in 2001 - musically and music-historically revised by Wendelin Müller-Blattau and provided with adaptations by Ludwig Harig.

In 1793 the princess fled from the approaching French revolutionary troops, first to Trarbach on the Moselle, then to Neuwied and finally to Aschaffenburg, where she died on September 7, 1795, aged 70.

Temporary widow's residence of the Princess in Ottweiler
Schloss Lorenzen , temporary widow's residence of the princess