Metadata: Monastery Obernkirchen
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:
- Dep. 2
- Title:
- Monastery Obernkirchen
- Title (official language):
- Stift Obernkirchen
- Creator/accumulator:
- Monastery Obernkirchen
- Date(s):
- 1410/1933
- Language:
- German
- Extent:
- 15.04 linear metres
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
-
The collection contains material about the monastery archive, the Reformation (1565), the priory archive (1565/1833) and the (Protestant) monastery archive (1565/1900). Some of the documents are still kept in the monastery. The medieval documents constitute the collection Orig. Dep. 2. The following items are relevant to Jewish history:
III D No. 2/20 Printed Decree of the Princely Hessian Government on the debts incurred by Christians against Jews in trading in 1789; III D No. 3/7 Printed Decree of the Princely Hessian Government banning the exchange of coffee for the Jews, 1794; III D Nr. 3/8 Printed Decree of the Princely Hessian Government on the issue of letters of protection for Jews as well as on livestock, the wool trade, and other contracts, 1794; III D Nr. 3/19 Printed Decree of the Princely Hessian Government on begging and vagrancy, residence of foreigners, validity of passports, residence of Jews, as well as ban from the fair of Jews without writs of protection, 1798.
- Access points: locations:
- Obernkirchen
- System of arrangement:
- There is no system or arrangement. The material is kept in order of accession.
- Access, restrictions:
- The collection is partially closed.
- 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
