GROFICA SOFIJA
Pozno v življenju je Jelačić je ustvaril družino.. Poročil se je z grofico Sofijo, rojeno Stockau. Spoznala sta se na pustnem plesu v dunajskem cesarskem Hofburgu leta 1850, poročila pa istega leta v njenem domačem kraju Napajedla na Moravskem. Ljudje v Zagrebu so bili od prvega trenutka navdušeni nad njo, ko se je prvič pojavila na plesu v Narodni hiši v preprosti beli obleki brez nakita. Sprehajalna pot, ki vodi od Tuškanca do Cmroka (danes imenovana Dubravkina pot), nosi njeno ime – Sofijina pot.
Leta 1854 je bil par povabljen na poroko cesarja Franca Jožefa in bavarske princese Elizabete, znane kot Sisi, kjer je ban prejel grofovski naziv, njegova žena pa položaj kraljičine dvorne dame. Jelačičeva sta na posestvu Novi dvori bivala od jeseni 1855. Tam se je na božič rodila njuna hčerka Anico, ki je zaradi kolere umrla pri devetih mesecih. Pokopali so jo v grobnici, kjer je bil kasneje pokopan tudi ban Josip Jelačić.
Sofija Jelačić, rojena Stockau,
risba po portretu Franza Schrotzberga
Sofija Jelačić, rojena Stockau
Risba po portretu Franza Schrotzberga
GROFICA SOFIJA
Jelačić je relativno kasno osnovao svoju obitelj. Oženio je groficu Sofiju r. Stockau. Upoznali su se na pokladnom plesu 1850. u carskom Hofburgu u Beču, a vjenčali iste godine u Sofijinu rodnom Napajedlu u Moravskoj. Od kada se prvi put pojavila na balu u Narodnom domu u jednostavnoj bijeloj haljini bez ikakvog nakita, oduševila je tadašnji Zagreb. Njezinim imenom nazvana je šetnica Sofijin put koja od Tuškanca vodi prema Cmroku (današnji Dubravkin put).
Godine 1854. par je pozvan na vjenčanje kralja Franje Josipa i bavarske princeze Elizabete, poznate po nadimku Sisi, na kome je ban odlikovan grofovskom titulom, a banica imenovana kraljičinom dvorskom damom. Od jeseni 1855. bračni par Jelačić boravi na imanju Novi dvori. Tu im se na Božić rodila kći Anica (Ana) koja je umrla iznenada od kolere sa samo devet mjeseci. Njezino je tijelo pokopano u kapelnoj grobnici u kojoj je kasnije sahranjen i sam ban Josip Jelačić.
COUNTESS SOFIA
Jelačić started his family relatively late in his life. He married Countess Sofia, nee Stockau. They met at a carnival dance in the imperial Hofburg in Vienna in 1850, and they married the same year in Sofia’s hometown of Napajedla in Moravia. People of Zagreb of that time were fascinated by her ever since she made her first appearance at the ball in the People’s House when she showed up wearing a simple white dress without a piece of jewellery. The promenade Sofijin put which leads from Tuškanac to Cmrok (nowadays called Dubravkin put) bore her name.
In 1854 the couple was invited to the wedding of King Franz Joseph and the Bavarian Princess Elisabeth, known by her nickname Sisi, where Ban was awarded the title of Count, and his wife was appointed the Queen’s lady-in-waiting. The married couple Jelačić had lived in the Novi Dvori manor as of the autumn of 1855. Their daughter Anica was born there on Christmas Day, but she died suddenly of cholera when she was only nine months old. Her body was buried in a chapel tomb where Ban Josip Jelačić was also to be buried afterwards.
Sofija Jelačić, rođ. Stockau, crtež prema portretu Franza Schrotzberga
Sofija Jelačić, nee Stockau Drawing according to the portrai by Franz Schrotzberg