Fritz Posted April 3, 2017 Share Posted April 3, 2017 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. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fritz Posted April 3, 2017 Author Share Posted April 3, 2017 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. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fritz Posted April 5, 2017 Author Share Posted April 5, 2017 Some information found: Gemeindeverzeichnis Deutschland 1900 - under: http://www.gemeindeverzeichnis.de/gem1900/gem1900.htm?posen/gostyn.htm - Königreich Preußen -Provinz PosenRegierungsbezirk PosenLandkreis Gostyn Marienheim, Gutsbezirk 12) population in 1910 = 128 12) 28.11.1906: Umwandlung des Gutsbezirkes Marienheim in die Gemeinde Marienheim 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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