Joachim Rahlff, 1

Kornhandler og skipsreder, mølleejer, købmand, landejer, dommer. 11 børn. To af deres sønner, Hans og Frederik, giftede sig med hver sin præstedatter Sevel fra Ryslinge.

(Toppen af Hans F. T. Rahlffs egentegnede "Stamtavle over den i Danmark bosidende Gren af Slægten Rahlff" fra 1924.)

Byggede gården Neuhof og vindmøllen Jachen Flünk i 1787 i Lemkenhafen. Møllen står endnu i 2020 og er den ældste bevarede vindmølle i Schleswig-Holstein. (http://www.museum-fehmarn.de/jachenfluenk.html)

FT1803: ( http://www.danishfamilysearch.com/cid1903768 )

Husstand

	LØBE NR.	NAVN	KØN	ALDER	FØDT ÅR	CIVILSTAND	INFORMATION

• 829 Joachim Rahlf Male 47 1756 Married Hausvater Richter und Landbesitzer, Kaufmann, Mühlenherr wie auch Eigenthümer von Neuhoff
• 830 Dorothea Margaretha Thomsen Female 44 1759 Married dessen Frau
• 831 Jürgen Rahlf Male 25 1778 Single ihre Kinder Schiffscapitän und abwesend
• 832 Gardruth Margareth Rahlf Female 23 1780 Single ihre Kinder
• 833 Marta Rahlf Female 21 1782 Single ihre Kinder
• 834 Joachim Rahlf Male 18 1785 Single ihre Kinder
• 835 Friederich Rahlf Male 15 1788 Single ihre Kinder
• 836 Matthaeus Rahlf Male 14 1789 Single ihre Kinder
• 837 Nicolaus Jacob Rahlf Male 20 1783 Single ihre Kinder fährt zur See als Steuermann und abwesend
• 838 Peter Rahlf Male 9 1794 Single ihre Kinder
• 839 Hans Rahlf Male 7 1796 Single ihre Kinder
• 840 Friederica Dorothea Rahlf Female 5 1798 Single ihre Kinder
• 841 Georg Rahlf Male 4 1799 Single ihre Kinder .
• 842 Luna Josua Winkelmann Male 35 1768 Single Müllermeister
• 843 Daniel Petersen Male 35 1768 Single Müllergesell
• 844 Dorothea Maass Female 36 1767 Single Dienstmädchen
• 845 Martin Wildbrett Male 19 1784 Single Dienstknecht
• 846 Hans Joachim Dittmann Male 21 1782 Single Taglöhner
• 847 Andreas Stockfisch Male 33 1770 Single Taglöhner
• 848 Margaretha Fürböters Female 27 1776 Single Dienstmädchen

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(fra http://www.museen-sh.de/ml/inst.php?inst=28 )

MØLLEMUSEET i Lemkenhafen

The corn merchant and ship owner Joachim Rahlff (1756-1830) built the windmill in Lemkenhafen on Fehmarn in 1787. At this time the Fehmarn region was flourishing through commerce. Barley and wheat were ground to pearl barley and groats, which were exported to the Scandinavian countries. The groats mill was closed in 1953 and bought by the Land Schleswig-Holstein in 1957. It is under monumental protection as one of the oldest mills in Schleswig-Holstein. It was passed over to the “Verein zur Sammlung Fehmarnscher Altertümer” (association for the collection of antiquities on Fehmarn) in 1960. The association opened a museum in it in 1961. In addition to the building itself, the preserved grinding machinery and old corn measures are presented. From 1963 to 1965 the annexed storehouse was converted into a museum for farming implements. Models of farms on Fehmarn are also shown here.

Mølla skulle gå natt og dag, og ble en sann gullgruve. Joachim skal ha sagt: "Hver gang møllevingene dreier rundt, tjener jeg en daler!". En gang brøt det ut brann,, og alle landsbyens folk ble beordret opp midt på natta for å slokke brannen.

(mer om mølla på http://www.tetti.de/FEHMARN2001/jachen-fluenk-2004.html og om Lemkenhafen på http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lemkenhafen_auf_Fehmarn )

(fra http://www.fehmarngenealogy.com/lemkenha.htm ):

"The boat- and shipping people from Lemkenhafen belonged to a special guild [association], which shipped the grain and other goods. The sailboats that laid for anchor in the pier, (couldn’t reach the bulwark, because of the low water level); were loaded and unloaded from the trap- doors of the storage "Dinn" via slides and lifts.

The shippers and the farmers, who owned partnership in single boats, called ‘Partenschluckers in Low German’, stored their goods there, which had been purchased on the island in the fall or winter, (or also harvested on their own farm - when hired hands thrashed the grain by hand [with a flail]). - That way they could speculate and wait until the prices would be higher in the spring. When the Baltic Sea became free of ice in the spring, they would load the first sailing ships with grain, grits and barley, while the price was higher than a few month later (but this could backfire and the opposite could happen), as it was for instance in the year of 1807, when wheat, in the month of June, raised 2 Marks higher than in the month of February, per Fehmarnsch ton, [that was 220 pound]. At such instance the merchants had the advantage and also the risk of disadvantage by speculating price changes. When the farmer’s grain was delivered short before the boats were to leave, the delivery was often late. The merchant and shipper "Joachim Rahlff", mainly because of such a situation, ran into a crisis around 1814/1815, while many a grand farmer ‘Großbauer’ had purchased grain [to speculate price changes], especially the chamberlain and judge, as representative of the land, he had acquired rather advantageously. The Fehmarn citizens, at that time had to carry quite a load of war debt. It fell very hard on the single farmer. The wealthy farmer was in hopes, that with all the grain they had purchased in advance and the debts of the none-paying smaller farmers, would bring great wealth to the rich.

The merchant Rahlff from Lemkenhafen, who had many sales contracts to fill in other ports, could not load his ships as quickly as foreseen. Different farmers had received higher prices from other speculators than that, what was agreed on by Mr. Rahlff previously? The farmers did not deliver because they didn’t have it to deliver.

This "grain speculation" caused a lot of bad blood on the island Fehmarn. The chamberlains and judges, who had stored the so-called "war-grain" in government storage and were very much united, because they were to gain the most. The chosen (sworn in) people of the community had agreed, because they were afraid to confront the ruling representatives of the island.

Even a few relatives of the "grain speculators" were named to accompany the large grain transport from Fehmarn to Kiel; when a very correct judge of a "church district" spoke out and ordered a community meeting. He quickly called several land elders together and requested, with many to-dos, a new meeting. This resulted in a loss for the chamberlains and the judges. It was requested that: "The war-debts, being paid off in grain, would be canceled. In the following days the "covered-up plan for grain delivery by the villages" was greatly publicized. Then it came to a genuine old-time meeting ‘Urversammlung’, where the whole community took part ‘Meinheyt des Landes FEMERN’. Here all the land- and house-owners, who were registered and had the right to vote, took part. Such meetings were only held twice after the year of 1800.

The merchant and shipper Joachim Rahlff was afterwards bombarded with grain deliveries, now he was pressed to purchase all the grain that had been earlier bought up by the speculators. Since he was an upright and diplomatic buyer, (although his costumers had not treated him with such great respect), he kept his word. Other companies made him responsible and he could get into an embarrassing situation." ....

The grain merchant and shipper Joachim Rahlff, who was born 1756 in Gammendorf/Fehmarn, built the mill in Lemkenhafen in 1787 and he died 1830. He also built the estate "Neuhof" before that. You can still see the date it was built on the "Tögbrett" under the head of the mill called the "Waterhüschen", that is the covered trap under the roof of the mill.

Those were marvelous days on the land of Fehmarn, for here was so much wheat and barley ground into grits and other cereal and shipped out. In Bergen, Norway they used to say: "Femersk Grød smager sød, og er dejlig Føde," (old Norwegian). The grits from Fehmarn tastes sweet and is a very nourishing meal. They often paid 1 - 2 pennies more per pound for the grain from Fehmarn than they did the other grain. In the spring of 1804 eight sailboats, belonging to the shipper Rahlff, sailed out loaded with grain going toward Norway. One shipper from Neujellingsdorf by the name of "Serk" could make such a profit in the year of 1804, from just two ship loads of grits, delivered by Mr. Rahlff’s boats in Lemkenhafen, going to Norway; that he decided to build himself a home near Bergen and lived there. Some of his descendants are still living there.

A shipper by the name of "Meislahn" from Burg/Fehmarn reported in an old document, that he was present when the Lemkenhafen grits mill was running in October 1787 for the first time; the owner Joachim Rahlff and his young wife, she was a Thomsen from Mummendorf. They stood at the deck of the mill, called the "Zwickstell"- when the lady poured the hired people and the mill carpenters some "Schnaps". As it was traditional, the lady threw the bottle against one of the wings with the words and wishes" "Go with the good wind!" The men standing by, would whistle loudly through their teeth, this was supposed to bring "good luck", in old fashioned miller’s tradition, not only for the mill but also for all the people that would work there later.

Good luck was in store for the whole Rahlff families and also with the mill as well as the milling business up to the year of 1900. The first 100 years the mill was always a goldmine.

When Joachim Rahlff died in 1830 and his son Jürgen inherited the mill, 5 to 6 miller journeymen, in German: ‘Müllersgesellen’ and several other hired hands were kept very busy milling the large heaps of barley that had been delivered by the farmers. As soon as the Baltic Sea was ice-free, they had to start loading the sailboats.

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They gave each mill it’s individual name like: "grau Jochen", "speedy Laura", "Raddel moth", "Juchen Hans". Rahlff’s mill in Lemkenhafen was in 1848 still called "Jachen Flünk" by the older people there, really after the old owner, Mr. Rahlff, who was flying around every where, like the wings of the mill.

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Fra Hans Frederik Theodor Rahlffs stamtavle, 1924: "Der findes flere (OWR: andre) Børn af Joachim Rahlff, men ingen Efterkommere her i landet."