Her husband died in 1771 leaving no heirs of his own and thus Baden-Baden went to Charles Frederick, Grand Duke of Baden, leaving the defunct Maria Viktoria without a home. She moved from Rastatt and took up residence in Ottersweier where she set up a convent. In the convent school girls learned all the skills which they would need as future mothers and teachers. In 1767 she bequeathed most of her property of a foundation to preserve the school beyond their death. She died in Strasbourg aged 78. She was buried at the Stiftskirche in Baden-Baden beside her husband. Ancestry References 1714 births 1793 deaths Nobility from Brussels Margravines of Baden-Baden 18th-century German people Nobility of the Austrian Netherlands House of Zähringen Arenberg family Burials at Stiftskirche, Baden-Baden Women of the Austrian Netherlands