They bid on ten letters (1859-1865) out of Bleckede.
Written by Oberamtmann Ernst Wilhelm Ferdinand Wendt (1787-1866) in Bleckede.
Addressed to his daughter Marie Rudorff, b. Wendt (* 1827), widow of the lawyer Valdec Gustav Adolph Rudorff (1807-1857). This was a Brother of the important lawyer Adolf August Friedrich Rudorff (1803-1873), father of the composer and conservationist Ernst Rudorff (1840-1916).
Signed usually with "DV Wendt" [=Your father Wendt]; an addendum signed with initials "W".
Plus a letter (Bleckede 1859) his wife Auguste Wendt, née. Renneberg (1805-1894), signed "Your Mama", also addressed to Marie Rudorff, b. Wendt.
Most letters from 1864/65.
Scope: into the. 37 written pages (including four by his wife).
Excerpts:
21. June 1860: "My dear Marie! [...] I find it very useful that Gustav [[his son-in-law Gustav Blumenbach, husband of his daughter Theodore]] takes my hat - the lack of which made it impossible for me to take it off to shoot on Monday - with him to Hanover. [...] Among those attached to GR Rudorff's books sent to Wunsiedel pp. However, there is a brochure about geology pp. of the Fichtelgebirge with map. If I had had these things just a day earlier, I would have stayed in Wunsiedel a little longer. [...] The fact that Theodore also had to stay with Landdrosten was highly unexpected to me. In the country such things may well be unavoidable; but in the city it goes too far. Today there is a big heron shooting here, and even the otherwise very peaceful Dr. Meyer was involved."
30. October 1861: "My heartfelt thanks, my dear Marie, for your congratulations and kind letter! [...] On my birthday, favorable news came from Allen sides, except from Auguste, who was not doing so well, which could easily have been foreseen after the long, foolish journey in such troubled times. But what use are all the rational reasons when with emotions we are fighting against it!"
18. August 1863. About a trip, including to Hanover, Uelzen and Lüneburg, and the harvest.
21. June 1864: "Everyone here is very upset with you, and rightly so, because you don't write at all. [...] Yesterday and today we have the shooting festival here, which Emma and the two young ladies also attended until 2 a.m.."
28. October 1864, about his poor health (a frequent theme in recent letters): "The paralysis is particularly in the fingers, so that the movement has to be made with the whole hand. [...] The electric therapy was tried again, 5 or 6 times, with no noticeable success and probably in vain. [...] Contrary to your custom, I don't have a birthday letter from Theodore!"
30. December 1864: "My nervous wasting has become more distressing over the last 14 days [...]. Yesterday we read the announcement of the death of Auguste Hase, née. Renneberg,"
2. January 1865: "My pulse is always frequent, regularly 72 beats, now probably 75-78."
29. March 1865: "I feel compelled, my dear Marie, to write to you again about my state of health, which has not yet improved much [...]. The paralysis in the hand has not changed much [...]. That's your poor dad's situation as a whole!" --- At the end, handwritten addition from the recipient, who forwards this letter, probably to Dr. Aldenhoven, from whom Wendt sought medical advice in several passages of the letter.
8. April 1865: "My condition as a whole is unchanged. [...] A small quantity of morphine, in bitter almond water, is now suggested for the stomach sickness, which I have already taken for spasmodic colic without any problems. But I am insecure and timid about taking such means. It's just directed against a symptom."
Enclosed is a small note written on both sides with a letter addendum. Since Wendt later thanked him for a Christmas present, the addendum probably belongs to the letter dated March 30th. December 1864.
The letter from his wife Auguste is dated Bleckede, the 14th. April 1859.
Excerpts: "My dear best Marie! Yesterday, thank God, I arrived safely in my dear Bleckede, everything was fine and in the best order, only dear dad had a minor attack of his cramp colick at midday, which somewhat clouded my joy. [...] The reason for my letter today mainly concerns your Adolf. In Han. Our Adolf [[probably the lawyer Adolf August Friedrich Rudorff]] and Gustav said that if your A. wanted to become a soldier, now was the right time because the military authorities would now like to accept volunteer cadets. [...] Everyone at the Blumenbachs was happy to have little Hanfriedchen back, the first hour was marred by the fact that he was afraid that he would have to drink his milk in the kitchen, but now he took it upstairs and his mother did it for him When I put the cake plate out for selection, he became cheerful and, with some persuasion, he ate happily again in the kitchen the following day. A child is always preoccupied with the present, but when I wanted to leave yesterday morning and he didn't come with me, It was difficult to console him, he certainly thought it was going to Lauenstein. [...] With love, your mom."
Note: Both of them are mentioned grandsons, the later lawyer Adolph Rudorff (*18. December 1842) as well Johann Friedrich Ferdinand "Hanfried" Blumenbach (*9. July 1856 in Hanover, died. 25. September 1937 in Hamburg), later councilor at the Hanseatic Higher Regional Court in Hamburg and community elder.
About the author: The senior government councilor and senior mayor in Bleckede Ernst Wilhelm Ferdinand Wendt (*24. October 1787 in Magdeburg as the son of the merchant Adolf Gottlieb Wendt and Katharine Elisabeth, née. Trittel, died. 21. October 1866 in Blekede) married Dorette Auguste Christiane Wilhelmine Renneberg (* 25. January 1805 in Gifhorn as the daughter of the postal manager Anton Wilhelm Ludwig Renneberg and Christine Marie Elisabeth, née. Mertens, died. on the 18th October 1894 in Hanover).
His daughters were:
1.) Marie Rudorff, b. Wendt (* 24. January 1827 in Hanover), second wife and widow of the lawyer Valdec Gustav Adolph Rudorff, born on January 21st. March 1807 as the son of Friedrich August Rudorff (1768-1835) from Zeven and Christina Elisabeth, née. Heldberg (1778-1843) from Bremen, died. 2. September 1857 in Lauenstein; the marriage took place on the 26th. August 1855 in Hanover. Her husband was a brother of the lawyer and representative of the “antiquarian” wing of Savigny's students Adolf August Friedrich Rudorff (1803-1873), father of the composer and conservationist Ernst Rudorff (1840-1916).
A son from her husband's first marriage (with Emily Lisette, b. Nöller, daughter of superintendent Nöller from Oldendorf) was the Otto Rudorff (1845-1922), lawyer who worked in Japan; another the lawyer Adolph Rudorff (* 18. December 1842), father of the lawyer and writer Otto Rudorff (* 25. April 1871 in Sulingen), pseudonym "Otto Wildling."
2.)Theodore Wilhelmine Henriette Blumenbach, b. Wendt (* 25. June 1835 in Bleckede; gest. 7. February 1909 in Wunstorf), which took place on the 25th. September 1855 the mayor Gustav Friedrich Anton Blumenbach (* 17. August 1823 in Hanover as the son of the important Hanoverian lawyer, politician and privy government councilor Georg Heinrich Wilhelm Blumenbach, 1780-1855, and Helene, née. Cleve, 1797-1875, died. 27. October 1885 in Springe). Her husband was a brother of the Hanover officer and painter Robert Blumenbach (1822-1914). One of her sons was Johann Friedrich Ferdinand "Hanfried" Blumenbach (* 9. July 1856 in Hanover, died. 25. September 1937 in Hamburg), councilor at the Hanseatic Higher Regional Court in Hamburg and community elder.
Condition:Each without envelope; Paper partly a little stained and wrinkled. Please also note the pictures!
Internal note: Corner 24-05
About the Bleckede office (source: wikipedia):
History: The office arose around the Bleckede border fortress, which has been documented since 1271, and its Elbe customs station. In the late Middle Ages, ownership of the mountain and bailiwick changed more frequently between the Guelphs and the Ascanians. From the end of the 14th century At the turn of the century they were held by the city of Lüneburg as collateral. Duke Ernst II was only able to regain possession of the office in 1600 after long disputes.
In 1742 the Garze office was merged with Bleckede. Further territorial changes followed from 1795 in exchange with the offices of Lüne, Scharnebeck and Winsen (Luhe). The communities on the right bank of the Elbe, Krusendorf and Sumte, came to the Neuhaus office in 1820. In 1852 the Bleckede office was enlarged to include the villages of Neetze and Süttorf (from the abolished Scharnebeck office), Breetze (from the Lüne office), Bresse (from the Dannenberg office) and the originally Saxony-Lauenburg closed court of Lüdersburg (with Jürgenstorf). In 1885, the Bleckede office was merged with the Neuhaus office to form the new Bleckede district and in 1932 it was incorporated into the Lüneburg district.
Municipalities: When it was abolished (1885), the office included the following municipalities:
Ahnsdorf
Barskamp
Bleckede
Boitze
Bockelkathen
Brackede
Breese on the Seisselberge
Breetze
Bruchdorf
Buendorf
Dahlem
Dahlenburg
Dübbekold
Eichdorf
Eimstorf
Ellringen
Garge
Garlstorf
Garze
Gienau
Göddingen
Harmststorf
horn
Horndorf
Jürgenstorf
Karze
Katemin
Kleinburg
Köhlingen
Köstorf
Kovahl
Lemgrabe
Luben
Lüdersburg
Moislingen
Mücklingen
Nahrendorf
Nets
Neetzendorf
Nieperfitz
Nindorf
Oldendorf
Pommoisel
Quickborn
Radegast
Reesseln
Rosenthal
Seedorf
Stiepelse
Süttorf
Tosterglope
Ventschau
Viehle
Vindorf
Birdsong
Vorbleckede
Walmsburg
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Wendish Bleckede
Wendish tuna
Officials
1550–1623: Fritz von dem Berge
1754–1758: Johann Justus Friedrich Tormin, official auditor
1818–1820: Friedrich Johann Heinrich Wilhelm von der Wense, captain
1820–1836: Heinrich August Meyer, bailiff, father of Auguste von der Decken
1837–1846: Friedrich Heinrich Justus Böse, bailiff
1847–1866: Ernst Wilhelm Ferdinand Wendt, bailiff, from 1850 senior bailiff
1867: vacant
1868–1875: Alexander Otto Jacob Heise, bailiff
1876–1877: Barth, bailiff (provisional)
1877–1885: August von Harling, bailiff, 1885–1886 district administrator of the Bleckede district