Metadata: Court chamber of Schaumburg-Lippe - newer finance department files
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:
- K 2
- Title:
- Court chamber of Schaumburg-Lippe - newer finance department files
- Title (official language):
- Fürstlich Schaumburg-Lippische Hofkammer: Jüngeres Kammerarchiv
- Creator/accumulator:
- Court Chamber of Schaumburg-Lippe
- Date(s):
- 1777/1918
- Language:
- German
- Extent:
- 370.9 linear metres
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
- This collection comprises documents on the administration of revenues from the domestic and chamber estates, including the foreign estates. Files relating to individual Jews are to be found in the sub-collections. A: Bonds, B: land and household goods, C: leases, D: exterminators, including Jews, E: printed regulations of Count Philipp Ernst zu Schaumburg-Lippe, F: trade concessions, G: attendance at schools and high schools, H: purchase and sale of buildings, J: applications for permits for construction projects, K: granting of advances, leases, M: trials, P: money, receivables, bonds, T: tobacco trade and tobacco, S: foundations, Z: payment of customs duty by the Jews.
- Archival history:
- After the death of Count Wilhelm, a new chamber registry was created in 1777, which was revised after 1866. In the previous form, the collection and the index are still available today. According to the agreement on the use of the house archive of 7 July 2009, all documents up to 1892 (as well as those created for state purposes until 1918) are available for use according to the Lower Saxony Archive law and the applicable rules of use.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- The Rentkammer [court chamber, revenue office] administered the household and chamber estates. This included not only the domainial assets of the House of Schaumburg -Lippe, but also the extensive possession of estates outside the state, whose income flowed as a private property of the sovereign into the privy purse.
- Access points: locations:
- Bückeburg
- System of arrangement:
- There is no system or arrangement. The material is kept in order of accession.
- Access, restrictions:
- Documents created since 1892 are only accessible for consultation with written permission from the depositor.
- 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