Metadata: Municipal records (1228-1685)
Collection
- Country:
- Germany
- Holding institution:
- Municipal Archive of Braunschweig
- Holding institution (official language):
- Stadtarchiv Braunschweig
- Postal address:
- Schlossplatz 1, 38100 Braunschweig
- Phone number:
- +49 531 4704719
- Email:
- stadtarchiv@braunschweig.de
- Reference number:
- B I
- Title:
- Municipal records (1228-1685)
- Title (official language):
- Stadtbücher (1228-1685)
- Creator/accumulator:
- City of Braunschweig - municipal authorities
- Date(s):
- 1268/1696
- Language:
- German
- Extent:
- 43 linear metres (670 volumes)
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
- This collection comprises the municipal records kept by the Common City and the Weichbilden (municipal areas) in the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Period. Some concern Jewish affairs, such as No. 11: Collection of ducal ordinances, e.g. edict of Duke Heinrich the Younger, exercise of religion in the Duchy of Braunschweig after the previous ceremonies (1734), patent that Jews are no longer to be tolerated in the country (1590), banishment of Jews from the country (1591).
- Archival history:
- The Braunschweig municipal records collection is extremely extensive compared to other cities. While it was still customary at the beginning to enter various subject matters in a book, in the Middle Ages people began to create specialised book series based on content criteria. The collection was restored in the 1930s. Archive director Werner Spieß summarised all administrative documents in book form and divided the volumes into 25 subject groups. Entries of the period before 1400 are edited in the register of charters of the city of Braunschweig.
- Access points: locations:
- Braunschweig
- Subject terms:
- Expulsion
- Legal status of Jews
- Nobility
- System of arrangement:
- There is no system or arrangement. The material is kept in order of accession.
- Finding aids:
- A finding aid and database are available.
- Links to finding aids:
- https://www.stadtarchiv-braunschweig.findbuch.net/php/main.php?ar_id=3697
- Yerusha Network member:
- Institute for the History of German Jews
- Author of the description:
- Meike Buck