Metadata: Departement of Oberems and other French authorities
Collection
- Country:
- Germany
- Holding institution:
- State Archives of Lower Saxony - Osnabrück Branch
- Holding institution (official language):
- Niedersächsisches Landesarchiv - Standort Osnabrück
- Postal address:
- Schlossstraße 29, 49074 Osnabrück
- Phone number:
- +49 531 33162 0
- Reference number:
- Rep. 240
- Title:
- Departement of Oberems and other French authorities
- Title (official language):
- Oberemsdepartement u.a. französische Behörden
- Creator/accumulator:
- Departement of Oberems; French authorities
- Date(s):
- 1780/1815
- Language:
- German
- Extent:
- 1,129 files
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
- In addition to the prefectural files, the collection contains files of various other French authorities in Osnabrück: at the departmental level, files of the domain directorate, the inspection of forests and waters and the direction des droits réunis (indirect taxes); on the lower level files of the sub-prefecture of Osnabrück, to which the cantons of Bramsche, Dissen, Essen, Iburg, Melle, Ostercappeln, Osnabrück-Stadt and Lengerich, Ostbevern, Tecklenburg and Versmold belonged. In addition, there are also some registers of the management of the 4th and 5th grade endowments, i.e. the Society of Imperial Donataries of Losen (up to 4,000 francs) in Westphalia, as well as records of Count Chaban as General Financial Director of the General Government of the Hanseatic Department in Hamburg. Relevant files for Jewish history within this collection are: No. 185 Lotteries, 1810-1812.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- The departement Oberems was founded by a senate resolution on 13 December 1810. Its establishment - as well as that of the two other newly founded Hanseatic departements - was initially to be prepared and supported by a government commission established in Hamburg by the imperial decree of 18 December 1810. The first division was entrusted with the general administration (with, among others, questions of zoning, tax registers, electoral assemblies, appointment of municipal officials, civil status), the second division with accounting and finances (mainly municipalities, public institutions and estates and taxation), the third division with the military administration and conscription, the fourth division with the police and general statistics. It should be noted that the final territorial organisation of the departement Oberems, divided into the arrondissements of Osnabrück, Lingen, Quakenbrück and Minden, was determined only by the decree of 4 July 1811 and the division of the area belonging to the former Weser departement into cantons and municipalities is not identical with the division after integration into the departement of Oberems. French rule ended in 1813 and the Principality of Osnabrück was placed under the supervision of a provisional government commission on 9 November 1813.
- Access points: locations:
- Osnabrück
- Subject terms:
- Agriculture
- Financial matters
- Taxation
- System of arrangement:
- There is no system or arrangement. The material is kept in order of accession.
- 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