You are bidding on a handwritten one Deed (deed of sale) from 1763.

Andreas Schmid, Vogt and governor of Hattingen, confirms a purchase on behalf of Joseph Wenzel Prince of Fürstenberg-Stühlingen:

Vincenz Günter sells Johannes Honoldt (Possibly. an ancestor of the priest Fridolin Honold, baptized in Engen, 1837-1900?) a field "in Esch via Egg an der Bleiche" for 10 guilders.

Confirmed with paper-covered seal the Lordship of Hohenhewen.

Dated Engen, 28. July 1763.

Scope: 2 p. (34 x 22.8 cm).

Written on unusually strong paper.

Condition: Paper heavily stained and creased, with edge damage, seal damaged. Please also note the pictures at the end of the item description!

aboveJoseph Wenzel zu Fürstenberg-Stühlingen (source: wikipedia):

Joseph Wenzel zu Fürstenberg-Stühlingen (* 21. March 1728 in Prague; † 2 June 1783 in Donaueschingen) was (1762-1783) the sixth ruling prince of Fürstenberg.

Life: Joseph Wenzel was born the first son of Prince Joseph zu Fürstenberg and Maria Anna von Waldstein. He studied in Strasbourg and Leipzig.

Joseph Wenzel tried to further develop the school system in his principality and introduced a princely school board. The lessons were based on the Austrian school model (Austrian normal teaching style). The management of the grammar school in Donaueschingen was transferred to a Jesuit, and later to the Benedictine Franz Uebelacker the overall supervision of the entire school system. Joseph Wenzel had a history of the house of Fürstenberg prepared by the princely archivists.

A penitentiary was built in Hüfingen. Joseph Wenzel stopped his father's industrial policy and made resettlement more difficult because of the morally negative consequences he attributed to the industry. He encouraged do-it-yourself crafts such as watchmaking. In 1777 he set up fire insurance.

After 1766 he became director of the Swabian Imperial Counts College. In 1775 he was appointed Major General by the Emperor (with the rank dating back to 1765).

Joseph Wenzel is said to have a lust for pomp and mistresses, he is certainly one of the less important personalities of the House of Fürstenberg.

The musician: Joseph Wenzel was a music lover and is said to have played the cello excellently himself. In 1762 he began building a court orchestra, for which he also brought a number of foreign musicians to his court in Donaueschingen. In 1783 Franz Christoph Neubauer was also employed as concert director.[1] In October 1766 Leopold Mozart stayed with his son Wolfgang Amadeus for approx. 2 weeks in Donaueschingen as a guest of the prince.

Marriage and Offspring

Joseph Wenzel married on 9. June 1748 Countess Maria Josepha von Waldburg-Scheer-Trauchburg, the daughter of Count Hans Ernst von Waldburg-Scheer-Trauchburg and had seven children with her:

Joseph Maria Benedict

Karl Joachim

Johann Nepomuk Joseph (* 25. July 1755; † 6 October 1755)

Josepha Maria Johanna (* 14. Nov 1756; † 2 October 1809) ∞ Phillip Maria von Fürstenberg-Pürglitz

Maria Anna Josepha (* 4. April 1759; † 26 June 1759)

Charles Alexander (born 11. Sep 1760; † 19 February 1761)

Karl Egon (* 5. June 1762; † 20 February 1771)