Recess Contract Alt Niewiemko

February 5, 1850

The agreement concluded between the interested parties in the matter of the redemption of the service and forest servitude of Alt Niewiemko in the district of Chodziesen, which reads as follows:

Agreement on the redemption of the service and forest servitude of Alt Niewiemko, also known as Niewiemko.

In the village of Alt Niewiemko, located in the district of Chodziesen in the administrative district of Bromberg, which belongs to the estate of Wyszyn and, with this, to Count Athanasins v Raczynski, there are

  • three full hüfner
  • two three-quarters hüfner
  • two half hüfner

Property held under the right of ownership and whose legitimate owners are presently:

Whole HüfnerMartin MatwigMortgage Number 11
Whole HüfnerLudwig MatzMortgage Number 5
Whole HüfnerLudwig MartenMortgage Number 1
3/4 HüfnerJohann Friedrich MatthewsMortgage Number 12
3/4 HüfnerMichael LüningMortgage Number 15
Half HüfnerChristoph MathewsMortgage Number 14
Half Hüfner Samuel JahnsMortgage Number 16

The aforementioned rural property owners had, under certain conditions specified in the deed dated June 2, 1810, the right to free grazing, firewood, and forest litter in the Wyczyner Forest belonging to the estate.  On the other hand, however, they were obliged to provide brotherhood services and manual labor and to pay interest to the landowner, from whom they received less than the value of their manual labor in the form of ingredients for beer.

In 1842, the estate owners filed for dissolution with the exclusion of the land fee, and therefore the following is being discussed here:

  1. the rent and manual labor
  2. beer allowance
  3. the firewood, forest litter, and pasture rights in the estate forests

This was achieved partly through provisional settlement and partly through a lump-sum settlement, whereby the farmers received compensation in land for their grazing rights and improvements, and the landowners received a monetary payment for their obligations to provide services, after deduction of the value of their entitlements to beer, firewood, and forest litter.

The entire dispute has been settled in accordance with sections 25–27 of the ordinance of June 30, 1834, with due observance of the legal formalities. No new interested parties were registered by the specified deadline, which is why the existing interested parties must settle the dispute themselves, even if this involves a violation of a right held against them.

They hereby conclude:

  1. the manorial rights
  2. the seven peasant properties mentioned above

regarding the terms of redemption as follows:


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