Need help translating record on mill in ancestral village
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This place was first mentioned in 1534, when Reyneke Wildenbruch had to pay a tax of 12 guilder florin [as owner of the property]. 1630 a man by the name of Hermann Schöne bought the property from Harm Wildenbruch. His widow sold the property in 1643 to Albert von Engeln.
The name'von Engeln' (possibly: 'of angels'} has been mentioned in the area quite often in bygone centuries. Its first mention was recorded in 1531 and concerned a Heinrich to Engelen in Schwaförden.
In 1745 Reinhart von Engeln married Adelheid Ramke; in her second marriage [Adelheid] in turn married Segelke Kuhlenkamp in 1760 who hailed from the adjacent property No. 16.
In 1769 Segelke bought Nr. 17, a property called Bornbruchswiese, from Constable Jobst Roselius. After [Segelke's] death, his widow Adelheid née(?) Runde married Hermann Meyer from Helingen in 1800; [the husband] brought 1 500 thaler into the marriage and took over as interimswirt (i.e. a farmer who married into a farm by marrying the widow).
Through the marriage of Segelke Kuhlenkamp the two estates (Halbmeier is a legal terminus whose translation I don't know, sorry ) No 16 and No 17 were united. 1817 those two were supposed to become separated again and fall to the grandsons Segelke and Harm Kuhlenkamp respectively; however, Segelke settled with Harm who received a settlement of 2 500 thaler
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Thank you. That is quite helpful.
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My pleasure.
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and an additional 500 thaler within four years, provided he didn't marry in the meantime. What became of Harm, is not known.
In 1818 Segelke took over the (Halbmeier) properties No. 15 and 16 from his stepfather, in 1830 the two were transformed into a Vollmeier property. In 1818, he bought five himtsaat (a type of unit of square measure) property from Steineke No 25 for 312 thaler which Steineke had bought out of spite and for which he had not payed yet. In 1827 the barn which exists to this day was built, approx. at the same time as the other buildings which were left unscathed by the fire of 1864. In 1832, Segelke bought property No 56 (old [numbering]) which had been gone bankrupt, under the condition of reselling it within six years. However, he only sold it in 1841 to the house owners(?) Brüns.
His daughter Adelheid married her former brother-in-law, brother to her deceased husband, 22-year-old Carsten Niebuhr of No 5, in 1849.
Because this property in Groszborstel burned down in 1854 and was not rebuilt, the properties were united with No 15 and 16 with permission of the Königliche Landdrosterei; this led to one Vollmeier property and 2 Halbmeier properties to be united in one person's hands; from that time on, these properties made up the largest estate in Schwarme, occasionally amounting to nearly 150 hectares.
In 1856 Carsten Niebuhr built the Sprakener Windmühle (the wind mil of Spraken) on his estate. Until Mühle, there had been only the Erbzins Mill (Erbzins is another legal term I cannot easily translate, sorry) an der Heide (on the Meadow) in Schwarme.
Particularly the people of Hörsten had been complaining at the office (at the time the Office at Schwarme) about the long distance to the Heidmühle (i.e. the Erbzinsmühle an der Heide). It had been said they couldn't walk erect anymore because of the weight they had to carry for such long distances. Because of this, the Mahlzwang (i.e. the obligation to have one´s wheat milled in one particular mill) had been lifted and the farmer Niebuhr had been given permission to build a wind mill.
In 1858, 3 morgen of uncultivated meadow land were sold to the houser owner Hermann Thölke for 300 thaler in order to build a mine. (No 226) In 1844, the main part of the estate burned down and was rebuilt in 1865. In 1875, son Segelke married the heiress Clüver of the Rittergut (a type of estate) Neddernhude on the Weserknie (a bend of the river Weser) opposite Groszhutbergen. The total fortune was vastly enlarged by this.
From 1890 to 1927, Segelke was director of the Meliorationsgenossenschaft (a Genossenschaft is a corporation) Hoya-Syke-Thedinghausen and as such ceded a bit of land of property No. 5 in order to have a lockmaster´s house built. His son Friedrich let the mill to the miller Schulenberg.
In 1909, a leaking gas pipe in the mill's enginge room caused an apprentice and the worker Koppe to fall unconscious. Luckily, Schulenberg happened along and carried them outside; with medical attention they regain consciousness.
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