Chronicles of the Farms The chronicles of the farms have been and are being written for houses no 1 – 97, where the farmers, Kossäthen and Büdner lived, with the exception of houses no 1 – 3 which were the farm located on the outskirts, the church and the school.  The names of the farms, also known as “Torsaulen” (see resp. topic under the history of Niemaschkleba) were taken from the cadastral register. Out of the cadastral register, no 23 can be found as “Das Roßack’sche Büdnergut”.  Generally, the names of the farms come from the oldest traceable owner of the farm, in the case of “Das Roßack’ Büdnergut” meaning Roßack’s Farm (ie House & Garden) going back to Christian Roßack, who can be found as father of a stillborn son on 7 February 1690 in the church register. Following farm owners can but must not be necessarily direct descendants of the original owner. Often, the land tenure has changed from direct succession to marry-in e.g. because the owner only had daughters or – seldom though but exceptionally happened – when the farm had to be sold. It also happened that one of or the only son did not take over the farm for unknown reasons, working maybe as a farm laborer, and then a married daughter would take over or her husband would buy the farm.  Therefore, in the succeeding chronicles not the born successors of an owner are listed but the resp. succeeding owner of the farm with his family.  In the prevailing example of Roßack’s Büdnergut, there was no settlement of succession from Roßack onto Lampe to be found from in the cadastral register due to missing documents. Proof exists however (contract dated 15 September 1813, file no 144 et seq.), that a Gottlob Lampe transferred Roßack’s Büdnernahrung (= another way to describe the farm character) to his son Johann Christian Lampe. In 1854 JCL’s son, also called Johann Christian Lampe, became the owner. This second Johan Chr. Lampe had 4 daugthers and one son, who is registered as farm laborer. After the death of her father, one of the daughters, Johanne Pauline Lampe, took over Roßack’s Büdnernahrung on 17 February 1982 by means of heritage settlement. She was married to Johann Wilhelm Gromm. Therefore, a Gromm was the last owner of Roßack’s Büdnernahrung No 23.  Underlying sources for the chronicles of the farms were the church register of Niemaschkleba covering 1664 to 1797 with its births, marriages and deaths as well as the cadastral register, where testaments, heritage settlements, purchase contracts etc. are kept in original form. It was only by means of these documents that I was able to trace back the set of the farm chronicles.