Metadata: State rabbinate treasury of Stade administrative district; Jewish Community Osterholz-Scharmbeck
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 B Sta 1; CJA, 1 A Os 1
- Title:
- State rabbinate treasury of Stade administrative district; Jewish Community Osterholz-Scharmbeck
- Title (official language):
- Landrabbinatskasse des Regierungsbezirks Stade; Jüdische Gemeinde Osterholz-Scharmbeck
- Creator/accumulator:
- Treasurer of the state rabbinate treasury of Stade administrative district (Rechnungsführer der Landrabbinatskasse des Regierungsbezirks Stade); Jewish Community Osterholz-Scharmbeck (Synagogengemeinde Osterholz-Scharmbeck)
- Date(s):
- 1839/1938
- Language:
- German
- Extent:
- 0.72 linear metres (42 archival units)
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- Good
- Scope and content:
-
The collection of the State Rabbinate Treasury for the Stade administrative district consists of only two files. The first (thin) file contains orders from the Landdrostei [an administrative district] Stade to the accounting officer of the State Rabbinate Treasury, J.S. Schragenheim, regarding the salary payment to the rabbis who worked provisionally in Stade, 1882-1883, and the swearing-in of the new accountant Michael Schragenheim, 1891. The second file mainly contains invoices for income and expenses, cash books and receipts, 1914-1937.
The collection of the Synagogue Community of Scharmbeck (from 1927 Osterholz-Scharmbeck) includes 17 files on the general administration of the community (official orders, communications from the district rabbis Samuel E. Meyer, Peter Buchholz, Selig Gronemann and Abraham Lewinsky, community meetings, circulars from the German-Israelite Community Association and the Prussian State Association of Jewish Communities, financial matters, schools) as well as a log book of the community, 1863-1877, and a book containing copies of outgoing letters, 1869-1921. The financial records include the annual accounts for the community's income and expenses for 1858/59 to 1917/18, as well as bills for the construction of the synagogue and school in 1865, for the construction of the cemetery portal in 1923, receipts, files for the collection of the religious tax and payment of school fees. A further nine files contain documents on the Jewish elementary school, including the school chronicle (with additions from 1933 and 1938) kept by the long-time prayer leader and teacher Leopold Löwenstein (1873-1944) from 1894 to 1924, weekly class minutes and report cards for individual students from the period 1872 to 1922 .
Some files from Osterholz-Scharmbeck are heavily damaged.
- Archival history:
- The files of the Landrabbinatskasse [state rabbinate treasury] and the synagogue community of Osterholz-Scharmbeck were part of the former Gesamtarchiv der deutschen Juden [General Archive of German Jews]. In 1996 the Federal Archives transferred the holdings to the archive of the New Synagogue Berlin Foundation - Centrum Judaicum.
- Administrative/biographical history:
-
The Kingdom of Hanover came into being after Napoleon's defeat in 1814 as the successor state to the Electorate of Braunschweig-Lüneburg (Electorate of Hanover). With the law on the legal relations of Jews in the Kingdom of Hanover of 30 September 1842, the legal position of the Jews improved. The Landrabbinat [state rabbinate] Stade was created for the Landdrostei Stade (later the administrative district of Stade), which after the death of the first incumbent in 1860 was provisionally co-administered by the state rabbis of Hanover, Emden or Hildesheim. Until the time of the Weimar Republic, the state rabbis were also responsible for the supervision of Jewish schools. After the defeat in the German (Prusso-Austrian) War in 1866, Prussia annexed the territory of the Kingdom of Hanover as the new province of Hanover.
In the 18th century, Jews first settled in Osterholz and Scharmbeck, where they formed a Jewish community in 1762. In 1829 there were twelve Jewish families in Osterholz and Scharmbeck (over 100 individuals). After the synagogue in Scharmbeck, which had been built around 1830, burned down in 1863, the community built a new synagogue with a school and a teacher's apartment, which was inaugurated in January 1866. The synagogue community of Scharmbeck included the localities of Osterholz, Burgdamm, Ritterhude and Worpswede. Osterholz-Scharmbeck was created in 1927 through the amalgamation of Osterholz and Scharmbeck and was elevated to town status in 1929. At the end of the 19th century the synagogue community had 145 members, 80 in 1920, 49 in 1932 and 31 in 1938. The elementary school was closed in 1924 at the latest, and in 1938 the community also gave up the synagogue.
- Access points: locations:
- Hannover
- Osterholz
- Osterholz-Scharmbeck
- Scharmbeck
- Stade
- Access points: persons/families:
- Buchholz, Peter
- Gronemann, Selig
- Lewinsky, Abraham
- Löwenstein, Leopold
- Meyer, Samuel Ephraim
- Schragenheim, J S
- Schragenheim, Michael
- System of arrangement:
- The collection of the community of Osterholz-Scharmbeck is divided into the following groups: organisation and general administration of the community, real estate and buildings, finances and taxes as well as schools.
- 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 Miriam Haardt and Isabel Iselt); Stiftung Neue Synagoge Berlin - Centrum Judaicum; 2019-2020