Metadata: Sovereign commissar for the County of Bentheim
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. 340
- Title:
- Sovereign commissar for the County of Bentheim
- Title (official language):
- Hoheitskommissar für die Grafschaft Bentheim
- Creator/accumulator:
- Sovereign commissar for the County of Bentheim
- Date(s):
- 1741/1864
- Language:
- German
- Extent:
- 837 files
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
- Relevant files for Jewish history within this collection are: No. 437 Jews in the County of Bentheim whose protection certificates expired, and those who immigrated without such (without consent), 1826; No. 443 Petition of Calmon Meyer in Schüttorf for permission to settle in Bentheim in 1829; No. 428 The regulation on Jews issued in the year 1763 for the County of Bentheim, the subsequent amendment of the Sec. 9 of the same and what has continued to occur concerning the same subject in 1825; No. 425 The purchase of a house at Veldhausen 1818, which was done by the son of the protected Jew (Schutzjude) Samuel Hartz of Veldhausen, called Hartz Samuel or van Bosch, contrary to Art. 10 of the Jewish ordinance; No. 424 The purchase of a residential building intended by the Jewish merchant Meyer David, son of the Schutzjude David Abraham in Bentheim, in 1819; No. 422 Request of the Jewish merchant Gerson Moses van Leuwen from the Netherlands for permission to settle in Neuenhaus in 1820; No. 421 Request of the Schutzjude Salomon von der Linden from Veldhausen for permission to purchase a residential building in the town of Neuenhaus in 1821; No. 432 Request of the Israelite merchant Moses Salomon in Gildehaus for permission to remarry, 1825-1826; No. 431 Request by the Israelite merchant Abraham Salomon Köster for permission to settle down in situ in 1825; No. 434 Marriage permit for the Jewish merchant Aron Salomon in Neuenhaus 1826; No. 435 Jewish matters in the county Bentheim 1826-1843; No. 440 permit sought by the widow of Moses Isaac to go to Gildehaus to remarry with the Jew David Isaac from the Netherlands in 1827; No. 426 Marriage permit for the Israelite Moses Salomon von der Linde in Neuenhaus, 1833; No. 442 Request of the Jewish merchant Salomon Alexander Benjamin from Oldenzaal (Netherlands) for permission to settle in the town of Schüttorf in 1832; No. 405 license sought by the merchant Jew Salomon Meyer, Cantor in Ootmarsum, for trading in the County of Bentheim in 1815; No. 439 Trade of foreign Jews in the County of Bentheim, 1827; No. 433 permission sought by the Schutzjude in Bentheim to buy a house to serve as the synagogue and teacher's residence in 1825; No. 430 Worship and cemeteries of the Jews in the County of Bentheim 1794-1797; No. 419 Request of the heads of the Israelite congregations in Neuenhaus, Ülsen and Veldhausen for fencing their graveyards in the Hiltener Mark, court of Uelsen, 1822-1849; No. 429 Presentation of the Israelite school teacher J. J. van Lion in Veldhausen for the abolition of abuses among the Jews in 1825; No. 438 Support of the Israelite Wolff Gottschalck in Lage, 1827; No. 427 Conditions of local Jews in the County of Bentheim and the question of whether to hire a state rabbi for all Jews in the kingdom of Hannover, the request of the Jewish merchant Abraham Benedictus Kolthoff in Schüttorf for protection, as well as the Jews immigrated under foreign rule in 1823; No. 423 Request of the Jewish merchant Michael Meyer in Schüttorf for permission to buy a house for his son Calmon Meyer 1820; No. 420 The permission granted to the protected Jew Abraham David in Bentheim to buy another house in Bentheim instead of the house sold to him, 1823.
- Archival history:
- The collection only refers to Bentheim, despite temporary union of the two high commissions. It arrived in the State Archives around 1870.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- From 1824 the princes of Bentheim-Steinfurt, represented by a government councillor, assumed lower administrative powers in police, municipal government, church and school supervision. On the other hand, the high commissioner, under the supervision of the bailiwick (Landdrostei), exercised the governmental rights reserved for the State of Hannover. The "ordinance on civil status in the county Bentheim" of 18 April 1823 gave the Prince of Bentheim-Steinfurt lower administrative powers in police, as well as in the municipal, church and school supervision. The management was transferred to a government councillor of the state sovereign. On the Hanoverian side, his opposite number was a high commissioner who, under the bailiwick of Osnabrück, supervised the governmental rights reserved for the state. The seat of the high commissioner was initially Bentheim, but in 1831 the high commission was united with the one in the Duchy of Arenberg-Meppen (see Rep 350 Mep) and relocated to Meppen. In 1843 it was moved to Lingen. High Commissioners were Christoph Nikolaus Duncker (until his death on 27 November 1830), then Johann Georg Kaulen and from 1833 Dr. Sermes. With the abolition of mediatised princely sovereignty by ordinance dated 21 July 1848 the high commission ended as well.
- Access points: locations:
- Bentheim
- Lage
- Neuenhaus
- Schüttorf
- Ulashkovtsy
- Veldhausen
- Access points: persons/families:
- Benjamin, Salomon Alexander
- David, Abraham
- David, Meyer
- Gottschalck, Wolff
- Hartz, Samuel
- Isaac, David
- Kolthoff, Abraham Benedictus
- Köster, Abraham Salomon
- Leuwen, Gerson Moses van
- Linden, Moses Salomon von der
- Lion, J J von
- Meyer, Calmon
- Meyer, Michael
- Meyer, Salomon
- Salomon, Aron
- Salomon, Moses
- van Bosch, Samuel
- 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