You are bidding on one Letter from Weilburg from 1814.

Written by hand and signed bynFrederick William of Nassau-Weilburg (*25. October 1768 in The Hague, Netherlands; † 9. January 1816 in Weilburg Castle), from 1788 until his death Prince of Nassau-Weilburg, since 1806 Duke of Nassau.

About his sick sister Karoline, di Karoline Luise Friederike von Nassau-Weilburg (* 14. February 1770; † 8th. July 1828), wife of Prince Karl Ludwig Friedrich Alexander zu Wied-Runkel (* 29. September 1763; † 9. March 1824). Karoline is with Adrian Diel (1756-1839), spa doctor in Bad Ems, founder of pomology, in treatment; this is mentioned several times in the letter.

Dated Weilburg, 11. June 1814.

Transcription:"Since I don't know, my good, dear Wolf, whether Oberhofrath Diel is still with you, I take this opportunity to turn to you and thank you very much for your letters, and to ask you to thank this man very much (im case as I hope and wish in D{???}st) for his report yesterday. He truly has the greatest honor from the help he has rendered and has earned great rights to all of our appreciation. God grant my good Karoline her strength again soon and say {?} the treatment that will radically eliminate the disease should be carried out. If Diel is no longer with you, you and the prince, to whom I warmly recommend myself, will make sure that there is no waiting at all, but that if there is the slightest problem, Diel will be summoned as soon as possible. In general, I really ask that until my good sister comes to Ems, that you, dear Wolf, keep a daily journal of your health, even if she is both, which should be sent to Diel by post every day so that the doctor is always exactly au courante the state of health would remain. Not true. You'll see to it, it's part of my peace of mind. Since I don't know whether my angel sister knows that Amalie sent the messenger here, I hardly dare to say anything to her. But if she knows, tell her that I love her more than anything and would have her swear to me To take it easy and to follow the instructions as carefully as possible. Say {?} a lot of nice things from me, including yours {?}. Farewell, my good wolf, take good care of my good Karoline, and always count on my respect and sincere friendship. Friedrich WH{?; = Friedrich Wilhelm, Duke?}."

Scope:1 p. (24.2 x 19.8 cm).

Condition:Folded, slightly stained and wrinkled. Please also note the pictures!

OverFriedrich Wilhelm of Nassau-Weilburg and Adrian Diel (Source: wikipedia, NDB & ADB):

Frederick William of Nassau-Weilburg (* 25. October 1768 in The Hague, Netherlands; † 9. January 1816 in Weilburg Castle) was from 28. November 1788 until his death, Prince of Nassau-Weilburg and, as the closest relative of his cousin Friedrich August von Nassau-Usingen, who was left without a male heir, should have succeeded him as Duke of the Duchy of Nassau, which was formed in 1806 due to his accession to the Confederation of the Rhine.

Life: Friedrich Wilhelm was born in 1768 as the son of Prince Karl Christian of Nassau-Weilburg (* 1735; † 1788). After his death he became Prince of Nassau-Weilburg.

After the occupation of nearby Mainz by the French, Prince Friedrich Wilhelm fled to Bayreuth in 1793 from Kirchheimbolanden Castle, the new residence built by his father in addition to Weilburg. This ended the castle's function as a prince's residence, and with it the rule of the princes of Nassau-Weilburg over this region. When the Duchy of Nassau was created by Napoleon's grace in 1806, Friedrich Wilhelm ruled together with his cousin Friedrich August (* 23. April 1738; † 24. March 1816) from Biebrich Castle, as it was already clear at this point that Friedrich August would remain without a male heir - among his seven children there were only two sons who had died in infancy. It was therefore foreseeable that the House of Nassau-Usingen, along with the ducal title, would pass to the House of Nassau-Weilburg under Friedrich Wilhelm.

However, this did not happen because Friedrich Wilhelm died on the 9th. He died in January 1816 at the age of 47 after falling from a staircase in Weilburg Castle. Friedrich August died just a few weeks later, on December 24th. March 1816, so that Friedrich Wilhelm's son Wilhelm became Duke, for whom his father had built the Hereditary Prince's Palace on Wilhelmstrasse in Wiesbaden from 1813 onwards, which was no longer occupied.

Marriage and descendants: Friedrich Wilhelm married on January 31st. July 1788, a few months before his accession to the throne, Countess Luise Isabelle von Sayn-Hachenburg, Burgrave of Kirchberg, (* 1772; † 1827) in Hachenburg. They had four children together:

Wilhelm Georg August Belgicus (* 14. June 1792 in Kirchheimbolanden; † 20. August 1839 in Kissingen), heir to the throne and Duke of Nassau 1816 to 1839

Auguste Louise Wilhelmine (* 5. January 1794; † 11. April 1796)

Henriette Alexandrine Friederike (* 30. October 1797 near Bayreuth; † 29. December 1829 in Vienna) ⚭ 1815 Archduke Karl of Austria-Teschen

Friedrich Wilhelm (* 15. December 1799; † 6. January 1845), KK Major General ⚭ (morganatic) 1840 Anna born. Ritter, Edler von Vallyemare (* 1802 in Vienna; † 1864 in Paris), daughter of Joseph Ritter, Edler von Vallyemare, and widow of Johann Baptist Brunold; 1840 princely Reuss-Greezian count as Countess of Tiefenbach; her daughter Wilhelmine Brunold (* 1834; † 1892) received the title of Countess von Tiefenbach in 1844; Austrian recognition in 1845[1] (⚭ 1856 Emile Delamothe de Girardin; divorced 1872)

Isabelle Countess von Tiefenbach (* 1841; † 1842), buried in the Oberlaa parish church

Henri of Nassau, who has reigned as Grand Duke of Luxembourg since 2000, is the four-times great-grandson of Friedrich Wilhelm of Nassau-Weilburg.

Friedrich Wilhelm, Prince of Nassau-Weilburg, * October 25, 1768 The Hague, † January 9, 1816 Weilburg/Lahn. (evangelical)

genealogy

V Prince →Karl Chrstn. v. N.-W. (1735–88, see ADB XV), M Karoline (1743–87), T d. Princes →William IV. v. N.-Oranien (1711–51) and Anna Prn. v. Great Britain (1709–59);

⚭Hachenburg 1788 Luise Isabelle (1772–1827), T d. Wilh. Gg. Burggf. v. Kirchberg, Gf. zu Sayn-Hachenburg (1751–77) and Isabelle Auguste Prn. Reuss to Greiz (1752–1824);

2 S, 2 T, etc. Hzg. →William v. N. (1792–1839, see ADB 43);

E Adolf († 1905), Hzg. v. N., Ghzg. v. Luxembourg (see NDB I).

Life: Raised in his mother's native Netherlands and, like his father, in the military service of his related Orangemen until 1784, F. studied in Leipzig and achieved independent government in 1789 due to his father's early death. He took up his first residence in Kirchheimbolanden and proved his worth by bringing in his Leipzig student friend H. Ch. von Gagern provides a safe hand for selecting diplomatically capable and politically capable men. Gagern became F's most important support in the French Revolutionary Wars and in the negotiations with Napoleon IF had to leave his residence on the left bank of the Rhine in 1792 and Weilburg in 1795. He placed himself under Prussian protection and finally went to Bayreuth. In 1797 he negotiated in Vienna and in 1798 through Gagern in Berlin, but was unable to achieve the goal he had pursued under his influence of uniting all the forces of the empire against France. He won Sayn-Hachenburg by inheritance in 1799. After his return to Weilburg in 1800, he devoted himself to negotiations over compensation for his losses of territory on the left bank of the Rhine to France and, after the Peace of Lunéville, received primarily Electoral Trier areas on the Lahn and in the Westerwald. He was in Paris for the imperial coronation in 1804 and joined the Confederation of the Rhine in 1806. With Prince →Friedrich August von Nassau-Usingen († 1816) he founded the Duchy of Nassau, which was ruled jointly by →Friedrich August as duke and by F. as prince until 1816. Domestic policy was characterized by careful reorganization of the territory, the diverse parts of which had quite inconsistent origins; Therefore, only denominational toleration could prevail in the country. Until 1813, foreign policy was in the shadow of Napoleon, who ruled the states of the Confederation of the Rhine until his fall. In 1815, Nassau was given a state constitution with a bench and state representatives, although it was not put into effect until F's death. F. managed to go a long way towards unifying the Walramian areas of Nassau and, through his clever politics, in 1815 also gained the German land inheritance from the Orangemen.

Friedrich Wilhelm, Prince of Nassau-Weilburg (also of Walram tribe), son of Prince Karl Christian, field marshal of the Upper Rhine district, Dutch general and governor of Maestricht, and Princess Karoline, daughter of Prince Wilhelm IV. from Orange-Nassau, was born. on the 25th. Oct. 1768 in the Hague and died on the 9th. Jan. 1816 as a result of an unfortunate fall from the stairs in Weilburg Castle. As hereditary prince, he was also in the Dutch service and succeeded his father in government in 1788, having recently married Louise Isabelle Alexandrine Auguste, heir daughter of Count Georg Wilhelm of Sayn-Hachenburg and Burgrave of Kirchberg. The reign of both princes, who died almost simultaneously, is characterized by the most significant changes in the external and internal design of the Nassau lands. In 1799, the county of Sayn-Hachenburg came into being through inheritance, with Friedrich Wilhelm's father-in-law passing away in that year. Due to the extinction of the Saarbrücken-Saarbrücken branch line, the house's possessions on the left bank of the Rhine, Saarbrücken, Saar Werden, Ottweiler, etc., as long as they did not belong to Weilburg, would have had to go to Prince Karl Wilhelm of Nassau-Usingen as early as 1797; But already in 1792, not only the penultimate Prince of Saarbrücken, Ludwig, had been expelled by the French revolutionary army, his castle burned, and his land incorporated into the French Republic, but General Custine had also entered Weilburg and had a well-known position there Contribution was made and all sorts of violent acts were committed. So all that remained with regard to the Principality of Saarbrücken were the claims, since the entire lands on the left bank of the Rhine definitely came to France as a result of the Congress of Rastatt and the Peace of Luneville. As a result of the Reichsdeputation main conclusion on 25. February In 1803, the two princes received a total of 52 miles with 129,000 inhabitants as compensation, namely the Prince of Nassau-Usingen, significant parts of Electoral Mainz, further parts of Electoral Palatinate, Electorate of Cologne, several Hessian offices, the county of Sayn-Altenkirchen, etc. The main compensation for Nassau-Weilburg consisted of the Kurtrier possessions on the right bank of the Rhine. In 1806, Princes FA and FW joined the Confederation of the Rhine, while the Prince of Orange-Nassau steadfastly refused to join and as a result lost all of his German possessions. According to § 6 of the Rhine Confederation Act, which states: “Le chef de la maison de Nassau prendra le titre Duc”, Prince FA accepted the title of duke, and since he had no male descendants, and was already 68 years old, and according to law Because of the succession his lands had to fall to the Weilburg line, he united his lands with that of Prince FW in such a way that there was only one ministry, one state treasury, one legislature, one military constitution and one court of justice for the two upper instances, while the internal ones Everyone in their previous district was responsible for lesser matters alone. They ceded their possessions to France Castel and Kostheim opposite Mainz and to the newly created Grand Duchy of Berg the offices of Deuz, Vilich and Königswinter, whereas through the mediatization of a number of small princes and imperial knights they received such an increase that the now Duchy of Nassau became An area of ​​103 miles with a population of nearly 270,000. The Nassau regiments now fought as Rhine Confederation troops under French command against Spain and Russia. After the Battle of Leipzig, the [569] princes broke away from Napoleon and joined the alliance for the liberation of Germany through the Treaty of Frankfurt in November 1813. At the same time, the Prince of Orange received back his German lands, albeit with some changes, and the Elector of Hesse received back the Lower County of Katzenelnbogen, which was administered by a special French administration. On the 31st On May 18, 1815, however, Orange in Vienna ceded its German possessions to Prussia, which on the same day ceded the principalities of Dillenburg, Hadamar, Diez, part of Siegen and the county of Westerburg to the Duchy of Nassau, while the latter ceded the possessions on the Rhine from Ehrenbreitstein to Deuz down and the districts on the northwest border were ceded to Prussia. In a separate article of the same treaty, Prussia promised that if it obtained the cession of the Lower County of Katzenelnbogen from Hesse-Kassel, it would cede it to Nassau in exchange for the reserved part of the Principality of Siegen and the offices of Neunkirchen, Burbach and Atzbach, but this would only happen a few months after the death of the two princes (17. Oct. 1816). Only then did the Duchy of Nassau, after many changes, take on the shape that it had until its present incorporated into the Prussian state. From the internal administration, the abolition of serfdom and all services and taxes that were associated with it in 1812 should also be highlighted. In 1814 the two princes gave the duchy a state constitution, which, however, did not come into effect during their lifetimes; Rather, the first appointment of the state parliament did not take place until 1818. On the other hand, the expansion of the administrative organism was essentially completed at her death. His successor in government was Duke Wilhelm, Friedrich August's son.

August Friedrich Adrian Diel (* 4. February 1756 in Gladenbach; † 22. April 1839 in Diez) was a German doctor and founder of pomology at the turn of the 18th century. for the 19th Century.

Life: Adrian Diel's father Kaspar Ludwig was a surgeon and pharmacist. After studying in Giessen and Strasbourg, August Friedrich Adrian earned a doctorate in medicine and surgery at his last place of study in Giessen in 1780. He then became a doctor in Gladenbach. From 1786 he served as family doctor to Count von Spaur, who was a judge at the Imperial Chamber Court in Wetzlar, and dealt primarily with balneology. In 1790 he took over the position of spa doctor in Bad Ems in Nassau and at the same time that of district physicist at his home in Diez. In the same year, Diel became court councilor, later Privy Councilor of the Duchy of Nassau. He married Maria Altgelt, who came from a Diez family, but she died soon afterwards. Diel planted extensive orchards with supposedly up to 12,000 apple trees around the property now known in Diez as “Haus Eberhard”, which his wife brought into the marriage.

He gained importance as a breeder of fruit varieties and author of important pomological writings, which laid the foundation for the rise of this science in the 19th century. century. In addition to his works on the systematics of fruit trees, Diel also exercised political influence to promote fruit cultivation in the Duchy of Nassau. After the vineyards in the immediate vicinity of Diez were largely destroyed by pest infestation, Diel had large plum groves planted there. The introduction of morello cherries at higher altitudes in the Lahn area and a Nassau government regulation to plant roadsides with fruit trees and to create orchards in schools are based on his initiative.

Diel's marriage to Adrietta Dorothea Christine, née Scriba, resulted in seven children.

In 1925 the city of Diez named a newly created street “Dielstraße”. In his birthplace Gladenbach there is an “Adrian Diel Street”.

Fruit varieties named after Diel

Diels Barceloner Parmäne,[1] Diels large English Renette[2] and Diels Renette[3] were well-known apple varieties of the 19th century. century. The Dietzer Goldrenette[4] commemorates the place of his work.

Diels Butterbirne: As a pear, Diels Butterbirne[5] is reminiscent of the great breeder (cf. List of pear varieties). With the now lost Balduinsteiner Kinderbirne, Diel also immortalized the neighboring town of Balduinstein, which belongs to Diez.

factories

Pomology

Instructions for a fruit orangery in shards. 1793; 2. ed. 1798 and 3. ed. 1804 with the title About the creation of a fruit orangery in shards and the vegetation of the plants.

Attempt at a systematic description of pome fruit varieties available in Germany. 26 volumes, 1799–1832 (digital copy).

Systematic directory of the most excellent types of fruit available in Germany, with comments on selection, quality and ripening time for lovers of fruit planting. Frankfurt a. M. 1819 with two sequel volumes 1829 and 1833. (Digitized copies (3) in the Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania Digital Library)

medicine

About the use of the thermal baths in Ems, 1825.

On the internal use of the thermal baths in Ems, 1832.

as well as translations of medical works, including the Medical Commentaries of a Society of Doctors in Edinburgh in eight volumes.

Diel, August Friedrich Adrian, pomologist, spa doctor, * February 4, 1756 Gladenbach near Biedenkopf, † April 20, 1839 Bad Ems. (Lutheran)

genealogy

V Kaspar Ludw., Hessian official surgeon and pharmacist in Gladenbach, S the customs officer Joh. Dan. Ludw. in Gladenbach (Surgeon Joh.);

M Marianne Christine, T of Preceptor Joh. Phil. zimmermann (1689–1741) in Radheim/Bieber and loan yesterday;

⚭Königsberg b. Wetzlar 1787 Dorothea, T des Joh. Godfrey Scriba (1744–1825), Hessian mayor in Königsberg, and Henriette Cellarius;

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Life: D. is one of the most important doctors in the former Duchy of Nassau. He achieved healing success at the springs, particularly in Bad Ems, where he increasingly worked as a balneologist in summer practice. His “water cures” turned the older princely bath into a general public bath, whose best expert and good diagnostician was the “old secret council” for 43 years, according to the judgment of his professional colleagues. In the winter he practiced as a Nassau-Oran official physicist in Diez/Lahn. D., scientifically educated and honored, examined and selected, for the first time using modern methods, the “Indications and Contraindications about the Permissibility of the Use of a Healing Source”. His books “On the use of the thermal baths in Ems” (1825) and “On the internal use of the thermal baths in Ems” (1832) enjoyed a European reputation. - As a pomologist, D., the excellent connoisseur of fruit varieties, was of great importance for Nassau and the lower Lahn valley. He was a breeder of “Diels Butterbirne”. - Honorary member of the association for the promotion of horticulture in Prussia, the Horticultural Society London.

Diel: August Friedrich Adrian D., b. 3. February 1756 in Gladenbach, † 1833. He was first a physicist in Gladenbach, then at Dietz and at the same time a well doctor in Ems. In 1790 he became a Nassau court councilor and later a secret councilor; a very deserving pomologist. He wrote “On the construction of the fruit orangery in shards”, 1796, 3. ed. 1840; “Attempt at a systematic description of the pome fruit varieties common in Germany”, 21 volumes, 1799–1819, excerpt from it in 5 volumes, 1829–33; “Systematic directory of the most excellent types of fruit available in Germany”, 1818, with two sequels 1829–33; “On the use of the thermal baths in Ems”, 1825; “On the internal use of the thermal baths in Ems”, 1832; He also translated several medical works, namely the “Medical Commentaries of a Society of Doctors in Edinburgh”, 8 vols.