The series of owners has been determined as follows:
1564 Jurgen Mor
1616 his son Peter Mor
1630 successor by marriage Johann Lenter
1640 Claus Thams, married to daughter of Peter Mor
1672 Johann Kuhl, married to the daughter of Claus Thams
1719 son-in-law Paul Pingel
1731 his son Peter Pingel
1740 successor by marriage Tewes Harder
1766 Peter Pingel II, son of Peter Pingel
1808 Tewes Pingel, son of Peter Pingel II
1823 Otto Prining, successor by marriage; his wife died six weeks after the birth of their second child. He sold the farm, which had been in the family 257 years.
1823 November 27, Tewes Kuhl
1833 August 12, sold to Achim Auerhoff
1886 Jochim Hachmann, son-in-law of Jochim Auerhoff
1920 his son Claus Hachmann II
1967 his son Walter Hachmann
1983 his son Claus Hachmann III
1996 the old house barn was dismantled and shipped to Manning

My father told me that his grandfather, Jochim Hachmann, had told him that the house was 250 years old. If we go from the fact that my great-grandfather died in 1951, the house must have been built around 1700. No one here knows an exact date.

According to that, from the series of owners, the builder would have been Johann Kuhl, born 1644, died January 3, 1725. He was the son of Jurgen and Zilly Kuhl from Westerhorn, a neighboring village. On October 3, 1672, he married Margaretha Thams, born November 5, 1646, died December 5, 1723. Together they had six children.

(After this, we got the official scientific analysis of the timbers and Dr. Johannsen believes that the house was built in approximately 1660 by Claus Thams.)

It was built as a farm barn/house (for 90 hectars of land at that time [a hectar is approximately 2.5 acres]. That means in the front part were the living and sleeping rooms, in the middle up to the big back door was the hallway/entryway, and on the sides of this were a row of cattle and the work horses. The animals were tied and were fed from the hallway. The fountain to the right front of the hallway was used for both people and animals. On the floor above, hay and straw, as well as grain, were stored.

About 1820-1840, a new, larger house/barn was built on the other side of the street, and this one, the old one, was used by my great-great grandfather, Claus Hachmann, as the elder/parental house until his death in 1911, which means that cattle were kept there until then.

Since 1920, only machinery has been stored in the hallway. My great-grandfather built in 1914-1918 a new farm house, besides this one and we lived in that until 1995.

From 1980 to 1985, a very poor family with six children lived in the house/barn.

Then a man moved into the house and lived there with his wife and four small children in the last years until 1995.

The house was not damaged during the war. In January, 1990, the thatched roof was heavily damaged by a storm. The renter demanded from me a new roof. The matter was in law court for five and a half years and finally he had to vacate the house.

Since the dismantling agreement in January, 1991, Dr. Johannsen and I have agreed that the house should go to Iowa.

In the front part of the hallway in earlier times there was an open fire pit and cooking was done there. The sausages and hams hung from the ceiling and were smoked by the smoke from the fire. And we still speak of it being a smoke house, and the rafters still have a blackened look.

On the front gable there was a stork nest from 1964 to 1970.