Property 19 – Polajewohauland

August and Julianne nee Wolff Eichstadt sold a second portion of Property 9 consisting of 13 Morgen to Hermann Raatz (1833-1880) and his wife Amalie nee Reichert (1841-1872) for 425 Thaler on April 3, 1867. 

The small pox epidemic that struck Polajewo Hauland in 1872 killed Amalie nee Reichert Raatz on February 18, 1872 the day after she gave birth to a daughter Amalie Pauline Raatz who died one day after her mother.   She left three surviving children, Auguste Albertine Reichert (born 1862 prior to Amalie marrying Hermann Raatz), Emilie Bertha (born 1865) and Ernest Wilhelm Raatz (born 1867).

On May 12, 1872 two months after his wife’s death Hermann Raatz married Pauline Emilie Wichner (1855-1887) the daughter of Martin Wichner from Property 2, the niece of Amalie nee Reichert Raatz and the step-daughter of Hermann’s brother Ernest Wilhelm.  For the newlyweds to receive clear title to the property an inheritance contract was created on March 25, 1873 giving the three children of Amalie 91 Thaler, 26 Silbertgroschen, and 7 ½ Pfennig to be divided equally at their majority.  This contract was registered on January 7, 1874.

Hermann and Pauline had two additional children, Alwine Caroline (born 1877) and Wanda Martha (born 1879) that survived at the time of his death on June 11, 1880.  Pauline was a widow only 5 months when she married Gottlieb Eduard Pfeifer (1854-1934) on November 15, 1880.  At the time of her marriage an inheritance contract for the four children of her first husband Hermann was created on November 21, 1880.  The children received 468 Marks and 42 ½ Pfennig to be divided between them.  The daughter from Amalie nee Riechert Raatz that was born prior to her marriage to Hermann Raatz was not included in the father’s inheritance.

When the inheritance contract was registered on January 5, 1881 Eduard and Pauline Pfeiffer became joint owners of the property.

Pauline nee Wichner Raatz Pfeiffer died on March 4, 1887.  Pauline and Eduard had two surviving children Emma Marie (born 1883) and Gustav Otto (born 1885).  Those two children plus the two children from Pauline’s marriage to Hermann Raatz received a mother’s inheritance of 379 Marks and 48 Pfennig.  That contract was created on July 8, 1887 and recorded on September 25, 1887. 

When the contract is recorded Eduard has married Ottilia nee Schedler (born 1861) and they become joint owners of the property. 

The Pfeiffer’s transferred the property to their daughter Wanda Martha (born 1890) upon her marriage to Karl August Siewert (born 1891) on March 2, 1920.  Karl August was the son of Friedrich August Siewert and Pauline nee Henke the former owners of Property 14.  The Siewert’s owned the property until the war.