Information from the Osnabrucker Staatsarchiv regarding the tax registers from the House Lage in Rieste

In the Lehnbucher der Bischofe von Osnabruck, we found no mentioning of our family. In this we know that the farm and his inhabiters were not considered to be people from Osnabruck but Tecklenburger citizen.

In the Zinsregister from the House Laghe in the year 1403 we find under Rieste, Itl dat gud dar Kerstien tor Oves opp sittet ene war.

In the Viehschatz register from 1458 we find Hermann tor Ovesse, with 9 Horses, 2 young Horses, 20 Cow, 10 Oxes, 22 Pigs and 48 Sheep.

In the Kopfschatz register from 1512 we find Vent (Vincent?) tor Ovess named with his wife and five childeren who had to pay 28 schilling of taxes.

In the Viehschatz register from 1533 we find Arndt thor Ovest, with 9 Horses, 13 Cow, 12 Oxes, 20 Sheep and 26 Pigs.

In the Turkensteuer register from 1542 we find Arndt thor Ovest, on the 3rd place of the Highest tax payers.

In the Viehschatz register from 1589 we find Castenne tho Overst, who had to pay 5 Thaler and 8 Schilling of Viehschatz tax.

In the Kopfschatz register from 1601/1603 we find Cristen zur Ovest and Anna his wife, who had to pay 3 Thaler for Kopfschatz tax.

In the Viehschatz register from 1655 we find Carsten thor Oveste, with 3 Horses, 4 Cow, 5 Oxes, 9 Pigs and in the Widow Estate 4 Cow.

In the Viehschatz register from 1659 we find Carsten thor Oveste, with 3 Horses, 1 young Horse, 6 Cow, 4 Oxes, 7 Pigs in the Widow Estate 1 Horse, 3 Cow and 1 Ox.

These tax registers are importend as they say much about the social status of this farm and his inhabiters when compared to other farms in the Barony and the  surrounding area like for example in Ankum and Gross Mimmelage. In their own location at the Barony in Rieste, they were regarding the combination of areal size (although they were on the 5th place in size of land), livestock and tax duties almost the equal to the Meyerhof in Rieste and found on the 2sd place. Also compared to the Meyerhof Brickwede and Von den Bosse nearby Ankum we see a farm that is the Equal to these Estate´s. Most importend however is the 5 thaler that Castenne tho Overst in 1589 has to pay as Viehschatz, what is the normal tax what a Meyer or Schulze has to pay and the Gentry from their Estate´s. While the normal middle class farmer had to pay between a 2 and 3 Thaler on Vieschatz. In this case the farm and his inhabiters are considered to belong to the class of Meyer or Schulze.

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