Metadata: Archive of the princes of Schaumburg-Lippe, house and family archives
Collection
- Country:
- Germany
- Holding institution:
- State Archives of Lower Saxony - Bückeburg Branch
- Holding institution (official language):
- Niedersächsisches Landesarchiv - Standort Bückeburg
- Postal address:
- Schlossplatz 2, 31675 Bückeburg
- Phone number:
- +49 5722 9677-30
- Reference number:
- F 1
- Title:
- Archive of the princes of Schaumburg-Lippe, house and family archives
- Title (official language):
- Fürstliches Hausarchiv, eigentl. Haus- und Familienarchiv
- Creator/accumulator:
- Familiy of Schaumburg-Lippe
- Date(s):
- 1648/1960
- Language:
- German
- Extent:
- 123.52 linear metres
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
- This collection comprises private correspondence and internal affairs of the members of the princely house Schaumburg -Lippe, which took part in the division of the old County of Schaumburg in 1648, the government in the northwestern part. It includes various announcements of protection letters, correspondence by Count Wilhelm of Schaumburg-Lippe with Moses Mendelssohn in Berlin, burial of Prince Georg Wilhelm of Schaumburg-Lippe: printed intercessory prayers of the Jewish communities in the towns of Hagen and Bückeburg, 1860.
- Archival history:
- In the early modern period, a family and state archive existed in Schaumburg-Lippe, to which all important documents were delivered by the count's house as well as by the central authorities. In addition, in the 19th century, the government registry and later the court chamber registry took over the function of collection points for separate official files that were not necessary for the day-to-day administration, including those of the subordinate authority. They were administered by the respective registrars of the government or the court chamber, while the house and state archives were managed by the "chancellery and archivist”. As part of the gradual independence of the state leading toward the complete separation of private law concerns in the 19th century, the separation in the Family and State Archives took place in 1907. The first princely house archivist Arnold Berkemeier (called Berken) separated the files that make reference to the achievement of any state objectives, which naturally caused considerable difficulties and led to inconsistencies because of the interlocking of the state and private princely powers. He transferred the separated "state" archive files to the old registry of the government (of the Ministry), from where they were passed in 1939 to the State Archives of Hannover and 1961 to the State Archives of Bückeburg. In 1972, a contract for the preservation of the Princely Schaumburg-Lippisch house archive within the state archive was concluded. Part F 1 of the house archive contains mainly private correspondence separated by Berkemeier and actual household items.
- Access points: persons/families:
- Mendelssohn, Moses
- Subject terms:
- Burial
- Correspondence
- Nobility
- Prayer books
- System of arrangement:
- The collection is divided into three series - A House Schaumburg-Lippe, B Old Alverdisser registry, C Nachoder line. The archives which are "related to a state purpose" were assigned to the collections L 2 and L 3 in the separation of house and state archives in 1907.
- Access, restrictions:
- Documents from 1893 onwards are only accessible with permission of the owner.
- Finding aids:
- A database is available.
- Links to finding aids:
- https://www.arcinsys.niedersachsen.de/arcinsys/start.action?oldNodeid=
- Yerusha Network member:
- Institute for the History of German Jews
- Author of the description:
- Meike Buck