Family History Fair Photos
Harry Bargholz, his daughter and grandaughter from
Bud, Arline, Delbert, and Rose Mary Hammer also Wayne, NE. researching the Hans Hammer family researching the Hammer family. Both are from the
that came from Hohenfelde near Giekau, Holstein. Hans Hammer line who was a brother to Carl E. Hammer
of Mills County, Iowa.
Densil Moseman researching the Giese family and Dick Albrecht at the Friends and Neighbors table
Gloria Oberg event coordinator who was researching visiting with JoAnn Meyer Stratton who was also looking
the Dohrman(n) and Dohse families and also looking for the Dohrman(n) and Dohse families. Along with
for her Moeller family but they aren't from Giekau. her Meyer family that came from the Oldenburg Dutchy.
Davi Gradert, Margaret Dohrnan, Arline brader Hammer Gary Schoening during the Giekau History workshop
and Rose Mary Hammer looking at the Gadendorf using the map sent to him by Klaus Struve, a family
village table. researcher from Kiel, Germany. You can find more about
Klaus and a great list of immirgrants at his web site
www.rootdigger.de .
Marilyn Leonard in front of the Hohenfelde village table looking
at the Kai, Kay, Cai family information.
This is what things looked like just before starting time of 9:00am.
One more 9:00 picture Robert Hunt of Littleton, CO looking for his Miller (Möller)
family in the Satjendorf village area.
Tom and Ros. Bichel Dwyer, Ida and Melvin Witt, and Derwood Wriedt, Dorthy Lieber Huddle (seated) and
Harvey Hopp at the Friends and Neighbors tables. Janet Soseman Curd (pink top), Donna and Wilbur
Lieber of Sioux City, IA at the F&N table.
On our way to the Estate of Gut Schmoel with pictures by Irene Sindt.
Below is a list of all the towns and places with a name that are a part of the Gut Schmoel estate.
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Jurisdiction |
Village or Place Name |
Church
district. |
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Gut Schmoel |
Brünerbröken |
Giekau |
|
Gut Schmoel |
Eggersteich |
Giekau |
|
Gut Schmoel |
Grünberg |
Giekau |
|
Gut Schmoel |
Hohenfelde Established somewhere between 1264- 1289 |
Giekau |
|
Gut Schmoel |
Krumbreiten |
Giekau |
|
Gut Schmoel |
Malmsteg |
Giekau |
|
Gut Schmoel |
Radeland |
Giekau |
|
Gut Schmoel |
Rethkuhl |
Giekau |
|
Gut Schmoel |
Rögen |
Giekau |
|
Gut Schmoel |
Schmoel Established in the year 1433 |
Giekau |
|
Gut Schmoel |
Schwartbuck Established in the year 1216 |
Giekau |
|
Gut Schmoel |
Schwartbuckerholz |
Giekau |
|
Gut Schmoel |
Söhren |
Giekau |
The Old School house of Gut Schmoel
Alt Schule auf Gut Schmoel
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This information is taken from the 1835 census from Gut Schmoel: |
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Gut Schmoel, Schoolhouse |
|
Ehlers, Jochim age 49 School teacher |
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Jacobsen, Anna Margaretha age 50 His wife |
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Ehlers, Maria Dorothea, age 22 works as a Maid |
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Ehlers, Johann Hinrich age 14 their son |
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Ehlers, Anna Elisabetha age 12 their daughter |
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Ehlers, Detlev Augusta 10 their son |
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Ehlers, Christian Wilhelm, age 8 their son |
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25 years later in this same schoolhouse in the Gut Schmoel 1860 census you find this: |
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Ehlers, Johann Hinrich age 39 School teacher |
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Ehlers, Christina Maria age 29 his wife born in Eutin |
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Children |
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Ehlers, Anna Caroline Mathilde age 2 |
|
Ehlers, Carl Wilhelm age 1 |
Lane to the Estate of Gut Schmoel.
The two houses in front of the gatehouse is where the Blacksmith(Schmiede) and wheelwright (Rademacker) lived. The Schmiede on the left and the Rademacker on the right.
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Down the lane we get closer to the Gate House of the Estate Schmoel, once owned by Christoph Rantzau.
Christoph Rantzasu was the person who had the 18 people burned at the stake for witchcraft. MOST OF THE 18 WERE FROM THIS ESTATE.
Above the arch way is the year 1699.
The witchburning took place in 1688 and Irene has sent us a short verison of the story taken from Manfred Jacobsen's book
Jacobsen, Manfred: "Gut Schmoel in dunkler Zeit: Christoph von Rantzau und seine Hexenprozesse," Gedruckt mit Unterstützung der Marius-Böger-Stiftung, ©Selbstverlag, Schönberg 1996.
To see the story please go the miscellaneous page and click on the link.
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Brook or moat like ditch in front of the Gate House. This area was said to have been one of the places where the Pirate Claus Störtebeker hide out.
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To the right side of the Gate House.
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The Name "Schmoel" and Its First Documented Mention
Schmoel is mentioned for the first time in 1433 regarding a meeting place (
curia) called "Smole." This word presumably comes from the Slavic (Old Slavic "
smola" and likewise Russian, Czech, Slovak, Serbo-Croatian and Slovenian "
smola") and means "resin, pitch, tar." Perhaps pitch and tar needed to build ships were extracted here on the edge of the large forests. It's even not excluded that later the pirate Klaus Stoertebeker also obtained pitch and tar here. Legend has it that he and his Vitalienbrueder had a hiding place and observation posts near Schmoel. These pirates and freebooters were called the Vitalienbrueder, because from 1389 until 1392 they supplied the Swedish capital of Stockholm, cut off by Danish Queen Margarethe I (1387-1412), with victuals from the sea [Translator Note: after the fall of the city, the Vitalienbrueder operated as pirates with bases on Gotland until evicted by the Teutonic order in 1408]. Following the victory over Sweden, Margarethe founded the Kalmar Union, uniting the three kingdoms of Denmark, Norway and Sweden.A picture from the inside of the gate house.
Blick im da Tor Haus.
We are now going onto the estate where the Jurgensen (Jurgens),
Hammer and Wiese families once lived. Plus others of course.
If you have a family name from here please let me know.
Records of everything that came onto the estate:
Grain, milk, vegetables, animals and everything what came onto the property was recorded here.
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One of the large grain storage building on the estate.
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Another picture of the grain storage building with a view of the main house in the background.
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One of the older building on the estate.
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A view going the other way of the buildings on the estate.
The year that is on the end of the building is 1697.
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We are now leaving the main courtyard of the estate and will check out some of the other smaller places in the area.
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Forester's house in Rögen
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The shed at Rögan Forsthaus
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Ah! back home again in Hohenfelde.
Thanks, Irene for the tour.
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Here we are in Gadendorf. Thanks to the wonderful pictures taken by Irene Sindt. Irene met a Dohrmann family who shared some wonderful old pictures. She was kind enough to scan them and send them to me.
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This is a picture of what used to be the home for the less fortunate or the "poor home". You can find some of them listed in the census.
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Picture of Wilhelm Dose's store and warehouse in the early 1900s
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The smaller building is the schoolhouse and the larger one is where a family named Dohse lived. They are not sure when this
picture was taken.
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The same schoolhouse and house, this picture taken in 1915.
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Description: One of the many fields around Gadendorf. Opps!
Irene tells me that this isn't from the Gadendorf area but from Beligum. See just wanted to show us what a flax field looked like as that is what was raised in this area 150 years ago.
Today they grow a lot of rape (reep) and the fields are a beutiful yellow much of the Year.
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Description:This is called the "Schneider haus" or the tailors house. In one of th census a Bichel family lived in what was listed as the "Schneider Haus". Could this be the same one, I have no idea but it could be the same one.
In a 1845 census a family named Scheel lived in one of the two Schneider Houses and it maybe that one also.
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Description: The closeup of some the roof line on a house with a reet roof. The house is near Gadendorf.
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Description: Picture of the Blacksmith shop owned today by a family with the name of Schöning. I'll bet they are wonderful people.
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Description:
This is a house that is near Gadendorf called Brook.
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Description: On the left is the "gasthaus" guesthouse and bar and the smaller house was owned by a family named Krumbeckor Krambeck. We are not sure of the date but a nice looking VW.
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Description: A picture of the same "gasthaus" today.
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Description:
A two family home that was located in Köhn but was where Caroline Petersen was born and the picture was a part of the Dohrmann family collection so we added it here.
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Description: Picture of Gadendorf taked in 1915 and is one of the Dohrmann pictures.
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Description: One of the Dohrmann homes in Gadendorf. Picture taken in 1910.
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Description: The Dohrmann farm house. A picture that was taken in a different year the picture were taken about 10 years apart. Irene informed me that the tree in front of the house is still standing and is thought to be over 200 years old. We are not sure how old the house is at this time.
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Description: From the Dohrmann collection.
The sign reads:
Augst Hinrich Dohrmann born 1875 and
Caroline Petersen of Köhn
1 son Friedrich Wilhelm born July 17, 1900
Married
Bertha Nipp of Hohenfelde "Malmsteg"
The others are not named.
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Description: 1915 picture of the "gasthaus" or Krug (bar). I am not sure about your family but I am thinking that maybe some of mine may have seen the inside of this place once or twice. Just to visit friends I am sure.
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