You bid three documents/certificates of the government of Schaumburg-Lippe Buckeburg from 1876-1880.

Related to the Auburg Line Barons of Cornberg, which died out in the male line in 1926.

Each with a beautiful seal mark and signature of the Privy Councilor (and later Senior Councilor) Franz Alexander Wilhelm Georg Burgherr von Campe, father of the Councilor of State Gotthard von Campe (1856-1915).

The two ladies Henrietta von Cornberg zu Auburg (1821-1902) andEmilie von Cornberg zu Auburg (1827-1911),daughters of the baron Georg Wilhelm von Cornberg zu Auburg (1772-1847) andd of Wilhemine Dorothea Luise Charlotte, b. von Freitag (1789-1870), it is certified "that they are still alive and unmarried and that there have been no changes in their assets and income, especially in recent years."

Identical text; issued Bueckeburg, 11. April 1877, the 17th April 1878 and 21. April 1880.

Scope: each half of four pages written (approx. 28.3 x 20.3 cm, with slight variations).

Condition:Paper browned, also slightly stained and creased. The last letter with ballpoint pen notes on the back Please also note the pictures!

Internal Note: O19-2

About the noble family (source: wikipedia):

The Barons of Cornberg are originally a Hessian noble family that was wealthy in north-eastern Hesse and northern Westphalia. They descend from Philipp Wilhelm von Cornberg, who died in 1553 as the illegitimate son of Landgrave Wilhelm IV. of Hesse-Kassel was born. Until the Hessian branch died out, the von Cornberg belonged to the Old Hessian Knighthood, which still exists today.

story

Origin. The noble family of Cornberg descends from "Philippus Wilhelmus". He was born in 1553 as the illegitimate son of Landgrave Wilhelm IV. von Hessen-Kassel was born in Kassel. His mother was Elisabeth Wallenstein, daughter of a watchman in Kassel (“a burgers wicker from Cassel”).

From 1574, his father gave Philipp Wilhelm the Hersfeld subsidiary monastery of Cornberg north of Bebra, which had been closed in 1527, as a hereditary fiefdom. Philipp Wilhelm marries on 3. September 1582 in Cornberg Christine von Falcken, with whom he had ten children. When she died in 1600, he married Christine von Boyneburg in 1602, with whom he also had ten children.

In 1592 he received as a further fiefdom with Allen accessories the office of Auburg with the village of Wagenfeld, which had fallen to Hesse in 1585 after the Counts of Diepholz had died out. This property was associated with the important office of hereditary prince, which gave Philipp Wilhelm an almost sovereign position.

After the death of his father in 1598, Philipp Wilhelm ceded Cornberg to the new landgrave, his half-brother Moritz, and instead received 10,000 Reichstaler and as a real fiefdom the village of Richelsdorf, about 12 km further east-southeast, with high and low jurisdiction and the church patronage, as well as Obergude, Niedergude and Landefeld. In Richelsdorf, between 1598 and 1600, he built the manor house that has been preserved to this day, right next to the patron saint's church. Over the course of his life, he acquired further possessions, goods and interest rates in the Rotenburger Land, in the Fritzlar area and in Kassel. In Westphalia he was wealthy in Minden and Lübbecke and with the manor of Hüffe.

Philipp Wilhelm died on 30. August 1616 in his mansion in Richelsdorf; he was buried in the patronage church in Richelsdorf.

Division and end: His five surviving sons (three from the first and two from the second marriage) divided the paternal property among themselves, which resulted in four Westphalian branches of the family (the Hüffer , Lübbecke, Auburg and Kettenbacher lines). The fourth generation of the Richelsdorf line died out in 1739, and Richelsdorf fell to the Auburg family. A branch of the Auburg family then moved to Richelsdorf in 1762 and formed the new Richelsdorf line there. The Auburg line died out in the male line in 1926,[1] and in 1935 the new Richelsdorf line in the male line also died out with the death of the last patron of Richelsdorf, Baron Carl August Albert Ludwig von Cornberg, ducal-Saxony-Altenburg major and chamberlain .

The approximately 450-hectare manor had been managed for a long time, mostly by leaseholders, and the once numerous manorial rights, with the exception of church patronage, had long been lost. 1806 or In 1821 the Cornbergers had lost jurisdiction, and with the Hessian Detachment Act of 1854 they also lost their position as landlords with the associated rights and claims to real and personal benefits from the Richelsdorfers. The residents of Richelsdorf redeemed these mediaeval feudal burdens with 25 times the amount of all their interest, material and service obligations, converted into money, but still had to pay off the loans taken out by the Landeskreditkasse until 1923. The Cornbergers built a villa for the transfer fee in 1898 at the village exit to Blankenbach, which they then sold in 1902, together with the entire Cornberger forest property of 281 hectares, to a timber merchant from Gladbeck.

After the death of the last Cornberger in Richelsdorf in 1935, the extensive agricultural property in Richelsdorf was parceled out and sold to the local farmers. Only the old manor house in Richelsdorf, together with the farm buildings and the park and garden areas, initially remained in the family's possession, but was also sold by the heirs in 1943. Refugee families were accommodated there after the Second World War. After structural expansion, the old district of Rotenburg set up a retirement home in the manor house in 1949. After this was later moved to Rotenburg/Fulda, the vacant house came into private ownership and was expanded into a hotel and restaurant. Since 1983 the buildings have housed a private specialist clinic for addictions.

nobility

Philipp Wilhelm received on 29. March 1597 in Prague by Emperor Rudolf II. the imperial nobility letter as "von Cornberg". In 1777 the family was accepted into the Althessische Ritterschaft association, and in 1879 they were raised to the status of barons when Christian Wilhelm von Cornberg received the Saxe-Coburg-Gotha recognition of the baronial rank. In 1883, the royal Hanoverian Councilor Karl Ludwig Viktor von Cornberg and his cousin Otto von Cornberg received permission from King Wilhelm I of Prussia to use the title of baron.

By the highest cabinet order of 17 On November 18, 1803, the natural son of the Prussian district administrator Philipp von Cornberg auf Lübbecke and Elisabeth Schortmann, who was legitimized as Philipp Montegrain in 1801, was raised to the Prussian nobility as "von Cornberg". His son Christian von Cornberg, formerly colonel in Hesse, was also authorized to use the title of baron in 1879. This branch of the family still exists today.

coat of arms

Coat of arms stone at the castle in Richelsdorf

Blazon: “The divided coat of arms shows a red lion striding to the right at the top in silver, below a chessboard of blue and silver and red, arranged in three rows of five squares. On the helmet with red and silver covers, two buffalo horns divided diagonally by silver and red. Shield holder: Two red lions.”

The towns of Cornberg and Wagenfeld took over the coat of arms, in each case changing the color of the boxed field, as the coat of arms of the political community.

personalities

Philipp Wilhelm von Cornberg (born 24. June 1553 in Kassel; † 30 August 1616 in Richelsdorf), progenitor of the Barons of Cornberg.

Oskar von Cornberg (* 4. July 1855 in Kassel; † 20 October 1928 in Greiz), lawyer, magistrate, judiciary and president of the Court Chamber among the last regents of the Principality of Reuss.

Horst Oskar Christian Freiherr von Cornberg (* 13. December 1886 in Greiz; † 7 May 1943 in Trier), administrative lawyer, government director and district administrator in the Netze district.