Handwriting Lenzerwische 1731: Sale Two Manors, Nobility, From Wenckstern

You offer an extensive handwritten purchase letter from 1731 out ofLenzerwipe (Brandenburg).

Heinrich Ludwig von Wenckstern, heir to Lenzerwische, sold to his son Ludwig Werner von Wenckstern for 75,658 Reichstaler, 20 groschen and 6 pfennigs "his two knight's seats in the Lentzerwische, which according to his soul. The death of his father, Mr. Friedrich von Wenckstern, was descended from him."

One of these manors is the moated castle / manor house Kietz (Lenzerwische), built in 1480; one Weather vane with the initials HLVW (Heinrich Ludwig from Wenckstern)is now one of the few remains of the farm.

Dated Lenzerwische, 28. July 1731.

Signed and sealed by hand from buyer and seller.

Scope: 22 ½ of 24 pages described (33 x 20.8 cm).

Written on stamp paper.

Condition: Paper slightly stained, thread binding loose in the lower part. Complete document! Please also note the pictures!

Internal note: Antikf 24-01

About the von Wenckstern noble family (source: wikipedia):

Wenckstern, also Wenkstern, is the name of an old Mecklenburg and Brandenburg noble family.

History: The von Wencksterns were married to Hermann Wenkesterne, knight and guarantor of Duke Rudolf of Saxe-Wittenberg on the 6th. First mentioned in a document in July 1315. The secured family line begins with Klaus Wenckstern († before 1490), Lord of Lenzerwische. The family was already in possession of a castle at Redefin Castle in Mecklenburg in 1353 and at Wencksternburg in Prignitz in 1363. In 1572 it took part in the transfer of the Mecklenburg women's monasteries to the knighthood. The gender has been using each other since the 18th century. Century in Hanover of the title of baron, which it had also held unchallenged in Belgium, Russia and Austria.

The family should not be confused with a family of the same name from Hesse, which derives its lineage from the Hesse-Kassel lieutenant colonel Johann von Wenckstern († 1659). From this family, the Prussian lieutenant and future major Ludwig von Wenckstern died in Berlin on the 3rd. Received Prussian nobility recognition in June 1798. These von Wenckstern had a growing red lion in gold at the top of the divided coat of arms and three golden windows in blue at the bottom. The growing lion on the helmet with red, gold and blue covers.

In the registration book of the Dobbertin monastery there are four entries from daughters of the von Wenckstern families from Hese and Carlow from 1751 to 1899 for admission to the aristocratic women's monastery there.

possession

Mecklenburg: Laschendorf (today a district of Malchow), Malow (a district of Tessenow), Neese, Nienhagen, Reinshagen (a district of Lalendorf), Roggentin and Vietgest (a district of Lalendorf)

Brandenburg: Neuenfelde and Seehausen in the Altmark; Bochin (today a district of Steesow), Dallmin, Garlin and Warnow (today a district of Karstädt), Kietz a part of the municipality of Lenzerwische, Wenkensternburg in Lenzen, Wustrow (today a district of Lanz) and Wust - all in the Prignitz; Buskow in Ruppin and Rohrbeck (today a district of Bad Schönfließ) in Neumark

Lüneburg: Kolborn (today a district of Lüchow)

Pomerania: Barkenbrügge (today desolate)

coat of arms

The family coat of arms shows a silver star (six-, seven- or eight-pointed) in blue. On the helmet with blue and silver covers, the shield image in front of a silver shaft decorated with a black rooster plume.

since the 15th Century: In blue, a seven-pointed silver star, which is accompanied by 3 (2:1) red roses. On the helmet with blue and silver covers, two armored arms holding a silver star, between them a (fallen) gold-spurred armored leg.

Known family members

Detlev Alexander von Wenckstern (1708–1792), President of the Celle Higher Appeal Court

Friedrich Alexander von Wenckstern (1755–1790), lawyer and diplomat

Otto von Wenckstern (1819–1869), journalist

Adolph von Wenckstern (1862–1914), professor of political science

Karl von Wenckstern (1878–1968), German lieutenant colonel, knight of the Order Pour le Mérite, general labor leader in the RAD

Werner von Wenckstern, (1861–1938) chairman of the Oldenburg licensing commission, major a. D., 1921–1933 senior stable master and director of the state stud in Redefin

Hermann von Wenckstern (1882–1964), forester and economist