

When the farmer Martin exchanged his farm goods with the cabbages of Christian Spiegelhalter, because of which he became the owner of the farm goods Winterhalb am Berg.
By a certificate of debt dated 31.05.1756 with a total of debt of 1662 fl. the farmer Christian was allowed to continue farming, but he was forbidden to keep farm animals, so the farmer Christian gave the farm with his wife Ursula. Beha, according to the definition of the debt clearance, lived and managed. However, when the Coalition War began in 1796, Hofbauer Christian refused to join the military front, upon which Abbot Speckle of St. Peter appointed him the double front and eventually locked him up for a day. This action by Abbot Speckle led to a lively protest by the sons and daughters of the Rainmaker, who worked as watchmakers in France during the Revolution.
When the farmer Christian died in 1797, his son Andreas acquired for 3000 fl. the parent's farm property, so he was making wooden watches in the farm. After 12 years of craftsmanship, the farmer and watchmaker Andreas hired an apprentice in 1809 and in 1813 two watch servants who actively supported him in making the watches. When the farmer and watchmaker died in 1815, his son Joseph took over the farm goods and watchmaking, so the farm goods remained in the possession of the watchmaker family until 1876, which was auctioned to farmer Johann Merz for 20,100 marks. However, since farmer Johann was also a farm farmer of the Griesbenhof, he sold the Rainhof already in 1886 for 15,000 marks to the carpenter Johann Pfaff, who lived and managed the farm property with his partner Martha Beha, who bore 2 children over the years.
After 14 years of management had passed, the farmer and carpenter Johann died, so the widow Martha remained alone with her children on the Rainhof for several years, so her youngest son Johann (jun) took over the farm goods in 1921 and probably continued in agriculture and livestock. Since the farmer Johann was an avid collector of local historical writing materials, he exercised this interest until his death in 1963, due to which his daughter Franziska took over the farm goods with her husband Karl Hofmeier and their 3 children and continued in the management according to fatherly custom. Thus the rain farm was leased to the farming family Hofmeier until 1981, so that in 1987 the rainmill was sold, reducing the size of the farm goods to 22.38 ha.
However, when the housing right was transferred by the then owner Ludwig Pfaff to the Schlegelhof in Eisenberg, the vacancy of the farm property followed until 1994, until this and 6 ha of agricultural land for horse farming were leased to Martin Friedrich of Freiburg. When the lease ended in 2004, the Rainhof was leased in 2005 by spouses Werner and Irene Hügel, who ran a therapeutic donkey farm for children and young people for years, until the farm goods were bought by a family of entrepreneurs in 2013 and has been used as a holiday and weekend home ever since.
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Officials wanted Christian to fight at the front ( during the Coalition War) when he was 69 years old ? That's a little old for the draft....
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