Metadata: Sub-prefecture of Lingen concerning the later Lingen administrative district
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. 250 Lin I
- Title:
- Sub-prefecture of Lingen concerning the later Lingen administrative district
- Title (official language):
- Unterpräfektur Lingen betr. das spätere Kreisgebiet Lingen
- Creator/accumulator:
- Sub-prefecture Lingen
- Date(s):
- 1808/1813
- Language:
- German
- Extent:
- 176 files
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
- Relevant files within this collection are: No. 24 Abolition of the liability of the Jewish congregation for the damage caused by individual congregation members and the establishment of censorship commissions for the supervision of Jewish congregation, 1801-1810; No. 25 Regulation of the corporate debts of the Jews of the former counties of Lingen and Tecklenburg, 1808-1810; No. 22 Introduction of the imperial French lottery and permission to sell Dutch lottery tickets in the Oberems departement for Nathan Seligmann in Lingen and Herz Abraham in Nordhorn, 1811-1812.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- With the incorporation of the County Lingen in the Grand Duchy of Berg in 1808, Lingen became seat of a sub-prefecture. When the area fell to France at the end of 1810, Lingen again became the seat of a sub-prefecture in a modified arrondissement. In the Franco-Prussian war of 1806-07, the French occupied the Prussian provinces in Westphalia as early as 1806, including the County of Lingen. The existing authorities remained in office unchanged; only the designation of the War and Domain Chamber Münster, which was subordinate to the County of Lingen, was converted into "Administrative College of the first Gouvernements of the conquered lands”. As a controlling body for Osnabrück, Münster, Lingen, Tecklenburg and Mark, a Governor-General was also appointed: first the Division General Loison, from February 1807, General Canuel. In 1810, Napoleon I declared the Kingdom of Holland and parts of northwestern Germany to be French territory through the "Organic Senate Consultation" of December 13. Ten new departments were formed, of which the three so-called "Hanseatic" ones (the Oberems, Weser estuaries and Elbe estuaries) were subordinated, for a transitional period (until 1 July 1811), to a provisional interim instance in the form of the "Commission on the administration and government of the departments of the Oberems…”. The main task of this government commission, which had its seat in Hamburg and was headed by Marshal Davout (Prince of Eckmühl), was the preparation of the final organisation of the three departements.
- Access points: locations:
- Lingen
- Nordhorn
- Tecklenburg
- Access points: persons/families:
- Abraham, Herz
- Seligmann, Nathan
- 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