She was married on 29 January 1838 to Cajetan Josef Friedrich, baron von Tautphœus of Marquartstein (1805–1885), chamberlain to the king of Bavaria, and the remainder of her life was principally spent in Bavaria, where she was equally at home in court circles and, as her works evince, with the peasantry and the middle classes.
One quarter of the 850 pupils live in the boarding school while the rest is coming from the surrounding area around Marquartstein in the Chiemgau.