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This is an aerial view of the farm on Schlotfeldtsberg ("hill") Strasse in Gross Flintbek where Christiana and her brothers, Hans-Hinrich and Claus Jürgen were born. The "famous" street is in the backgound. The farm is now being developed into housing and Hans-Hinrich and Erika live in one home with their family. Door beams from the barns have old family names and dates carved in them and have been incorporated into new houses there. A nice thing to do!
Claus Jürgen and his family have another farm across town and he has retired from active farm management. Christiana and her husband Hartmut Barthel live closer to Keil.
For our family members from Iowa and the Dakotas, farms in this area have many of the same crops, corn and grain crops, sugar beets and of course cattle and horses. Dairy farming is a big thing. Our old family census records show dairy "maids" living on the property in those times. At this writing I don't know exactly how many previous generations lived on this Schlotfeldt property, but Christiana said she thought her Great Grandfather had developed the farmstead.
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