Oe 1 U 199

A charter of Friedrich Wilhelm III, King of Prussia, issued at Berlin on 19 December 1805. It confirms the family entail founded by Prince Friedrich Ludwig of Hohenlohe-Ingelfingen (1746-1818), a Prussian general, in his will of 7 October 1805. The holding consists of this one document, on fifteen pages, and is kept in the Hohenlohe-Zentralarchiv Neuenstein.

Historical background

Hohenlohe-Ingelfingen owned estates and ironworks in Silesia and, by a royal grant of 1796, estates in South Prussia, the province formed from Prussia’s share of the partitions of Poland. An entail bound the named properties to a fixed order of succession: they passed undivided to one heir and could not be sold or divided. The charter gives the foundation the King’s confirmation as sovereign.

Contents

The charter opens with the King’s full title and recites an extract of the will, certified by a court at Wrocław [1]. The extract places under entail the houses of Hohenlohe-Ingelfingen in Wrocław and the park at Szczytniki; the estate of Bytków; the lordship of Koszęcin with Boronów, Olszyna, Harbultowitz and Cieszowa; and the South Prussian lordships of Zagórów, Trąbczyn, Pszczew, Wieniec and Bątkowo [1]. A further clause determines the succession if the male line ends: the third daughter, Auguste, receives the South Prussian estates, Adelheid the Silesian ironworks, and Emilie Koszęcin [1]. The charter closes with the ratification, the King’s reservations and an order to the authorities [1].

Form and language

A fair copy bound in red leather, with the royal seal attached in a silver box. The binding, the seal and one blank leaf are not reproduced. The text is in German. The King’s title in the opening lines is partly garbled in the transcription; the remainder is sound.

Related holdings

The grant of the South Prussian estates in 1796: Oe 1 Bü 14525 and I. HA GR, Rep. 7 C, Nr. 3570. Their later sale and lease: Oe 1 Bü 14526.

Scans

The archive supplied ten images. The fifteen pages of text were cropped from them. The front and back covers and one blank leaf were left out.

Transcription

The German text was transcribed by an AI system and supplied by the editor, one file for each page.

Corrections

An AI model (Claude) proposed corrections to the transcription. A word was changed only where an independent witness supported the change. Here the witnesses were the King’s title as it stands in the grants of Oe 1 Bü 14525, the charter’s own spelling of a name elsewhere in its text, and fixed legal formulas. Each change is logged with its reason. The editor read five words of the King’s title on the scan, which no witness could settle. Words that remain doubtful were left as transcribed.

Summary and translation

The model read the document whole and wrote a German summary. A second, separate run of the model checked the summary against the text and found no statement the text does not support. The English summary is a translation of the checked German one. The model also translated the document. It proposed five further corrections to the German during translation; none had a witness and none was applied.