Metadata: Jewish Community Hagen; Jewish Community Hohenlimburg
Collection
- Country:
- Germany
- Holding institution:
- New Synagogue Berlin - Centrum Judaicum Foundation, Archive
- Holding institution (official language):
- Stiftung Neue Synagoge Berlin - Centrum Judaicum, Archiv
- Postal address:
- Oranienburger Str. 28-30, 10117 Berlin
- Phone number:
- 0049-30-88028-425
- Web address:
- www.centrumjudaicum.de
- Reference number:
- CJA, 1 A Ha 1; 1 A Ho 4
- Title:
- Jewish Community Hagen; Jewish Community Hohenlimburg
- Title (official language):
- Jüdische Gemeinde Hagen; Jüdische Gemeinde Hohenlimburg
- Creator/accumulator:
- Jewish Community Hagen (Synagogengemeinde Hagen); Jewish Community Hohenlimburg (Synagogengemeinde Hohenlimburg); Central Archives of the German Jews (Gesamtarchiv der deutschen Juden)
- Date(s):
- 1832/1938
- Language:
- German
- Extent:
- 1.0 linear metre (78 archival units)
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- Good
- Scope and content:
-
The collecting of the synagogue community of Hagen comprises 61 files from the period 1832-1938. The first series contains files of the board of directors and the representatives, 1854-1933 (elections - including a list of the parishioners entitled to vote from 1898, meetings of the board of directors and the assembly of representatives) and for the general administration of the parish, including official orders and membership in the German-Israelite parish union. One of the files contains a list (drawn up in 1919) of the community members who died in the First World War. Further files concern the administration of the sub-communities Schwelm, 1855-1911, and Herdecke, 1866-1879. A number of files contain personnel matters of the religious officials (teachers and cantors, slaughterers), treasurers and sextons. The second series contains files on the real estate and buildings of the community, including the construction of the synagogue and its inauguration in September 1859, the inauguration of the new synagogue in 1895, rental of synagogue seats and the administration of the cemetery (including cemetery and burial regulations from 1901). The file on the construction of the synagogue also contains documents regarding controversies with the responsible state rabbi Abraham Sutro in Münster: first he complained to the mayor of Hagen that there was no women's gallery in the new synagogue (only separate seats for women); later he protested when initially only state rabbi Meyer from Hanover was to be invited to the inauguration. There are also files on the finances of the community and the community contributions, 1855-1921, including tax complaints from 1857 to 1900. Two files contain religious matters, 1859-1900, mainly synagogue and service regulations; two other deal with school matters, 1862-1910. The final series concerns welfare affairs and associations: three files for the administration of the Fabricius'scher Armenstiftungsfonds (a fund for poor relief, legacy of the district surgeon Diedrich Wilhelm Fabricius), 1832-1903, as well as files concerning the Armenunterstützungsverein [poor relief association], 1859-1899, the Marks-Haindorf Foundation in Münster and the Israelitische Erziehungsanstalt [Israelite educational institution] in Ahlem near Hanover and contributions to the Alliance Israélite Universelle. There is also a file on the Verein für Liebeswerke [Männer-Chewra; charity association] with the statutes and lists of members (n.d., 1938) and two files on the Israelitischer Frauenverein [Israelite Women's Association] (minutes of meetings, lists of members, statutes from 1908).
From Hohenlimburg (formerly Limburg an der Lenne) a total of 17 files from the years 1846-1924 have survived. These comprise primarily files of the board of directors and the representatives (elections, meetings, correspondence, personnel matters, finances), 1864-1907. Other files concern the construction of the new synagogue by 1870 and the establishment of a school (including drawings), as well as cash books, budgets and bills of the community.
- Archival history:
- The files of the synagogue communities of Hagen and Hohenlimburg were part of the former Gesamtarchiv der deutschen Juden [General Archive of German Jews]. The constitution of the Israelitischer Frauenverein Hagen [Israelite Women’s Association] was kept in the general archive in a separate collection (Collection Süßmann). In 1996 the Federal Archives transferred the holdings to the archive of the New Synagogue Berlin Foundation - Centrum Judaicum.
- Administrative/biographical history:
-
The Duchy of Mark (with Hagen) came to Brandenburg-Prussia in the 17th century through a division of inheritance. Four Jewish families lived here around 1720, and Hagen has had a town charter since 1746. Under French rule, the area belonged to the Grand Duchy of Berg, then again to Prussia and after 1815 it became part of the Province of Westphalia.
Hohenlimburg (until 1879 Limburg an der Lenne) was the residence of the Duchy of Limburg. There was probably a continuous settlement of Jews in the county from the second half of the 17th century; in 1765 ten Jewish families lived in Limburg. Under French rule, the territory also belonged to the Grand Duchy of Berg (1808-1813), after which it became part of Prussia.
With the Prussian law on the conditions of the Jews of 1847, the Jewish communities became public corporations, which were referred to as synagogue communities.
In the district of Hagen, 285 Jews were counted in the census of 1843 (94 of them in the city itself). The community built a synagogue by 1859; after extensive renovation, it was inaugurated again in 1895. The sub-communities Herdecke, Schwelm and Volmarstein belonged to the synagogue community of Hagen, which was established with a constitution in 1854. Around 1913 the community of Hagen had over 500 members (with sub-communities over 700), before 1933 it was 650.
In 1843, 115 Jews were counted in Limburg, at the end of the 19th century the Hohenlimburg community had around 150 members, and 108 around 1913. The community had had a synagogue since the end of the 18th century and had a new synagogue built in 1869/70 - today there is a memorial to mark it. Hohenlimburg has been a district of Hagen since 1975.
- Access points: locations:
- Arnsberg
- Hagen
- Herdecke
- Hohenlimburg
- Limburg
- Limburg an der Lenne
- Schwelm
- Westphalia
- Access points: persons/families:
- Fabricius, Diedrich Wilhelm
- Meyer, Samuel
- Sutro, Abraham
- Finding aids:
- An online finding aid exists.
- Links to finding aids:
- www.findbuch.net
- Yerusha Network member:
- Centrum Judaicum
- Author of the description:
- Barbara Welker (with Isabel Iselt); Stiftung Neue Synagoge Berlin - Centrum Judaicum; 2019-2020
