STUBBEN
Stubben is a village west of the city of Ratzeburg and belongs to county Herzogtum Lauenburg.
It was administrated earlier by Amt Steinhorst. The residents belonged to the parish of the Eichede church in Stormarn, however, and not the Sandesneben church, which is also in the duchy of Lauenburg but further away.
Stubben was previously named “tho den Stubben”. In Low German, a Stubben is the stump of a sawed off tree trunk. Presumably a forest was once cleared here. The area is first mentioned in a document from 1408. In this document, Stubben is sold together with other villages from the nobles Gottschalk von Wegede and Vollrath von Zülen to Duke Erich the Elder.
In 1626, Stubben consisted of 7 farms; later, additional buildings were added and in 1855, one counts 7 farms, 10 quarter-farms, 8 cottages with land, 9 cultivator's patches, and 22 cottages without land.
The area was extended to include the districts of “Radeland” and “Krüh”; in addition, there are a fish pond named “Wallteich” and a forester's house called “Stubbener Zuschlag”.
A few numbers from 1855: Population 501 persons, school with 100 children.
There is a smithy and other craftsmen, an inn, and a poor house.
Size of the village: 1026,5 acre. The soil is composed of heavy clay.
1908 we can read : „Today the village has a main part laying around 5 acres gras land with a pond. Streets have a pavement and aside are rows of lime-trees. The other farms close up to north and stay in groups along a gravel lane with chustnut trees up to village Groß-Boden. Houses and gardens are kept fine.
At north a brook called Barnitz is flowing, rising in the area of Eichede and going on through Stubben down to Boden, a bridge is in the main village.
School with one room, a smithy, 9 craftsmen, 2 merchants. Continiuation school and choral society. Beautiful inn of quarter farmer J. Appel.
318 residents, community steward : farmer Bernhard Tretau.
The lands, mostly flat, are of good quality. Peat is won at the fen of Lüchow.
Area : 1295 acres, 1135 acres of which were farmland, about 86 acres were meadows, and 10 acres woodlands.
Today 350 residents are in Stubben .
Full-farms 1908 :
Bernhard Tretau, son of the community steward 108 acres, more than 200 years this family kept the farm;
Jochen Schmidt 111 acres, interim farmer,
Heinrich Heuer 118,5 acres, purchased 45 years ago,
Heinrich Witten 111 acres, a heritage,
Heinrich Martens 103,7 acres, purchased 33 years ago,
August Greven 121 acres, purchased 26 years ago,
Gustav Peemöller 116 acres, a heritage,
furthermore 7 smaller areas , 6 cottages , 2 cultivators and 21 new residents with house and garden
(craftsmen and laborer).
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