You are bidding on one Prussian mortgage letter from 1874 the end Lützen.

Tethered in Purchase contract from 1864 from Lützen, issued and signed by the notary and later member of the Reichstag Johannes Moritz Woelfel (1830-1893).

The mortgage deed concerns the merchant Simon Birnbaum in Genthin, who borrowed 500 thalers from the Sparkasse Lützen in 1864. After he repaid the sum of 150 thalers in 1866, 350 thalers are still outstanding.

Various properties in Lützen, including a residential building, are mortgaged as security.

Issued by the Land Registry Lützen on 9. June 1874.

Entries about deletions from 1889, 1903 and 1922 follow.

Scope: 5 written pages (34 x 20.8 cm).

Attached is a 6-page sales contract from Lützen dated 25. Nov. 1864: the merchant Simon Birnbaum sells the handworker Friedrich Cottin a plot of land on the Graseweg for 500 thalers.

He mortgaged the property and his house on Leipziger Strasse as security.

Issued by the notary Johannis Moritz Wölfel in Lützen.

At the end a cost calculation.

The documents are incised to mark deletion.

Condition: document folded lengthwise; paper browned and somewhat stained; with kinks. BPlease also note the pictures!

Internal note: EVS 2107-1

About the notary Wölfel (source: wikipedia):

Johannes Moritz Woelfel (* 24. June 1830 in Sangerhausen; † 17 February 1893 in Merseburg) was a lawyer and member of the Reichstag.

Life:After graduating from high school in Leitz, Wölfel studied law at the Universities of Halle and Berlin. In 1852 he became an auscultator, in 1854 a trainee lawyer, from 1858 to 1860 he was a trainee at the Higher Regional Court in Berlin and from 1861 a lawyer, first in Lützen and from 1869 in Merseburg. In 1867 he was a member of the constituent Reichstag of the North German Confederation and from 1867 to 1870 a member of the Prussian House of Representatives. From 1871 to 1884 he was elected a member of the Reichstag for the constituency of Merseburg 7 (Querfurt-Merseburg) for the National Liberal Party. In the run-up to the 1867 elections, Bismarck's administration and finally Bismarck himself had officially sided with Wölfel.