Background
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.
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Barbara Barbara of Welz-Wilmersdorf
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Career
Wolfgang Julius died in 1698 after nine years of marriage at the age of 76. The marriage remained childless. 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.
Caroline Juliane of Hohenlohe-Waldenburg-Schillingsfürst (1706–1758), married Christian Otto of Limburg-Styrum (1694–1749). 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.
