Award Document, Prussian Red Eagle Order, 1882

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A document

On Command of His Majesty the King - of a bestowal of the Roter Adler Orden, 4th Class upon the stately home owner - Rittergutsbesitzer -

Adolph Heinrich Schatz at Marienheim* in the district of Kröben,

Berlin 28. August 1882

by the General Ordens-Commission in The Matters of the Royal Prussian Orders,

signed by Freiherr von Steinaecker

with the matrikel-no. 5669

 

This document, an oversized double-folio format, is the older version.

An example of the older type of decoration of the Red Eagle Order 4th Class is shown.

 

*Marienheim, Kreis Kröben no longer exists since 1945. It was probably in the Provinz of Posen.

Very little evidence of it's existence. That goes to show what happens when a past culture is blotted out

by invaders. Most stately homes were confiscated, blown up, plowed over and fortgotten by the new population

in the postwar years. The owners were either murdered, put into camps, expelled or deported.

 

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A further example of an award document for the 4th Class of the Red Eagle Order dating from 1912,

 

for the Weingroßhändler (wine wholesaler) Max Melheimer of Traben-Trarbach in Kreis Zell (wine district), dated 18. January 1912

The 18. January was an annual date of bestowal of honours and awards in the Kingdom of Prussia.

The document is of a smaller format as previously and is signed by v. Jacobi (?)

 

An example of later types of the 4th class decoration, the arms of the cross had a finely pebbled surface.

 

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Some information found:

Gemeindeverzeichnis Deutschland 1900 - under:

 

http://www.gemeindeverzeichnis.de/gem1900/gem1900.htm?posen/gostyn.htm

 

- Königreich Preußen -
Provinz Posen
Regierungsbezirk Posen
Landkreis Gostyn

Marienheim, Gutsbezirk ^{12) population in 1910 = 128}

12) 28.11.1906: Umwandlung des Gutsbezirkes Marienheim
in die Gemeinde Marienheim

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