Brackstedter Mühle - the history of our house

The pastor's meal in the mill

Brackstedt - anno 1879 - The Vorsfelder Pastor and the Rector of the Vorsfelder Schule had to get bread grain and buckwheat every year from the villages in the parish. Around Michaelis they both set out and received the corn in the villages, on the first day in Kästorf, Warmenau, Brackstedt and Velstove, the next day in the villages towards Rühen.

The collection was done in Brackstedt at noon. It is said, "Against this that this is done, it is noon, and must be the miller in Brackstedt, instead of the grain, the pastor, and his own, and the waggons, and other people, and the rector with his men and waggons, with free beer that they bring for themselves and him, each half, give a meal. - If it is consumed, then the journey goes to Velstove ... "

When this privilege was to be replaced in 1879, the value of meals, which indeed served as the basis for the calculation of the transfer fee, was completely disagreed. The government, in ignorance of the circumstances, could only help indirectly by naming the usual prices for meals of varying degrees of richness.

After that cost:

- a breakfast consisting of butter, bread and brandy = 3 Groschen (about 15 cent)

- also from bread, butter, cheese and brandy = 3 Groschen 9 Pfennig (about 20 cent)

- a meal consisting of soup, vegetables and meat together with bread and butter = 4 Groschen (about 20 cent)

- as well as roast = 6 Groschen (about 30 cent)

- as well as rice porridge and tobacco = 8 Groschen (about 40 cent)

- a snack = 1 Groschen (about 5 cent)

With this decision aid, after all, an agreement could be reached with regard to the food. The amount of the transfer fee should be ten marks per fed person, only one was on the number of people still different opinion. Pastor and Rector claimed that it was seven with their companions and carters, while Muller Schulze considered five to be correct. The pastor now proposed to agree on six, but the miller insisted on his point of view. The outcome of the dispute is unknown, the incident was not found.

History and remarks to the mill Brackstedt

Brackstedt - Müller Claus Hans (1670) does not belong to the row of mill owners. Here the author made a mistake. The usual spelling, such. "Müller / Claus, Hans", however, misleads to a false interpretation. It is true: This man was not a miller, but was called so by family names. His first name was Hans and he live on the Clausen Hof (probably the Vollkothof No. ass. 10). Müller called Claus, Hans.

Father of the mentioned in the book Peter Müller (1619-1689) was Günter Möller. Kirchenbuch Vorsfelde: Buried the 21.4.1665, Günter Möller, the old Möller to Brackstedt. Peter was the eldest son. There was one younger, named Andreas, and three daughters, one of whom married a Burköter (= Goes) in Brackstedt. The other two were married to Peter Nieper in Croya and Henning Pape in Hoitlingen. Peter married in 1647 (marriage contract of autumn 1647, 21 Alt Bd. 1115) Irmgard Thiele, daughter of Peter Thiele from Hoitlingen. The couple lived in Hoitlingen in 1655 and took over the mill in Brackstedt with Recess of June 1655 (21 alt. 1115). A few months earlier (transfer contract of 6.2.1655, 21 Alt Bd. 1115, p. 235), the father Günter Möller had intended his younger son Andreas.

Contrary to this agreement, it was agreed in a new contract (21 Alt Bd. 1115, p. 237) in June 1655 on the acquisition of the mill by Peter. Andreas now only received a compensation. On June 12, 1729, the miller Joachim Möller died in the Brackstedter mill at the age of 30 years. He left a wife and 3 children aged 4, 7 and 9 years. His widow Anna Catharina born. Niemann married in his second marriage on 7.2.1730 Henning Andreas Gade, a miller's son from Heiligendorf, who until then had worked as a miller's lad in the Brackstedter mill. [Nbsp]

For this marriage a marriage contract was created on 28.1.1730 at the noble court Wolfsburg (WF 21 alt. Volume 1117). Gade is used for 18 years as interim administrator of the mill. After that, the children from the wife's first marriage should take on the inheritance. That is probably what happened, because Gade worked in 1757 in the Schiller mill in Hesslingen.