Metadata: Collections - Sack collection
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:
- H V
- Title:
- Collections - Sack collection
- Title (official language):
- Sammlungen - Sacksche Sammlung
- Creator/accumulator:
- Municipal archives of Braunschweig
- Date(s):
- 1600/1899
- Date note:
- 15th/19th century
- Language:
- German
- Extent:
- 12.8 linear metres
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
- This collection comprises writings, printed documents, plans and documents concerning the history of the city. Some of them refer to Jews in Braunschweig, such as: No. 12: Armenia (begging and beggars), No. 107: Markets and fairs (beggars), No. 109: Israelites (including: grain steward's oath [Kornherreneid], Jew's oath, oaths, poems, Jewish protection letter, for the Jew Wolf Isaac Oppenheimer, 1777 Jewish passports; Jewish calendar; Sr. August Klingemann, dramaturge, director at the Court Theatre in Braunschweig: "The Eternal Jew," theatre play bill, 1825; Jewish fair listings; Court of the First Rabbi Meeting in Braunschweig, 1844; warrant of apprehension of a Jew, 1724; baptism of Jews; ordinances, calendar for the years. 122: Catholics and Jesuits (concerning baptism of a Jewish woman. With signature, Duke Karl I of Braunschweig-Lüneburg, 1771, Jew's baptism), No. 150: illnesses (regulations, for begging and Jewish beggars), No. 178: fairs and markets (Jews at Fair & Markets, 1710), no. 209: Robbers; drunkards; thieves; shoplifters; Douceurgeld [douceur money]; guards; Italians; monks; wanted posters; highwayman; visitations; gypsies; rabble; killers; vagabonds (among others: regulations, for begging and Jewish beggars).
- Administrative/biographical history:
- Carl Wilhelm Sack (1792-1870) was a district court registrar and local historian. In the course of his work in the new city town hall (Neustadttrathaus), he had access to the holdings of the municipal archives, where he collected documents from various provenances for his research interests and brought them together into a thematic collection, divided into 279 volumes arranged by subject and alphabet.
- Access points: locations:
- Braunschweig
- Access points: persons/families:
- Oppenheimer, Wolf Isaac
- 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
