Metadata: Administrative district of Bentheim until 1885
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. 350 Bent
- Title:
- Administrative district of Bentheim until 1885
- Title (official language):
- Amt Bentheim bis 1885
- Creator/accumulator:
- Administrative district of Bentheim
- Date(s):
- 1775/1916
- Language:
- German
- Extent:
- 379 files
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
- The following items are relevant to Jewish history: No. 51 State rabbi, 1844-1866; No. 320 Lotteries and payment of movables and real estate in the Bentheim administrative district, 1824-1841; No. 49 Settlement of the Jews in the Bentheim district, 1843-1863; No. 94 Domicile conditions of the Jew Benjamin Gottschalk jr. from Denekamp, 1857-1861; No. 292 Establishment of Moses Meyer, son of Calmon Meyer in Bentheim as merchant, 1860-1861; No. 54 Complaints about the burdens of the Jewish congregation Bentheim, 1860-1875; No. 50 Jewish Synagogue in Bentheim, 1843-1869; No. 55 Disputes and complaints about synagogues and school matters of the Jewish congregation in Bentheim, 1864-1866; No. 96 The greater Jewish poor-relief association of the Bentheim district, 1853-1868; Bent No. 53 Various affairs of the Jews in the Bentheim district, among others: school attendance, supports, 1849-1877; No. 83 Complaints about involvement in local taxes and community services in the district of Bentheim, Vol. I 1832-1885; No. 56 State rabbinate and formation of a state rabbinate fund for the Jewish synagogue associations of the administrative district of Osnabrück, 1864-1874.
- Archival history:
- The existing collection consists of the old collection Rep 350 Bent and part of acc. 16/69 of the district administration in Nordhorn. A reorganisation seemed expedient, since the incorporation of the new files from "Akzession" (about 100 numbers) after dissolving several provenances from the old collection could not have been made without difficulty. Trial files that were created at the district administration in its capacity as a judicial authority, were assigned to the collection the designation of Rep 950 Bent - Amtsgericht (district court) of Bentheim.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- The Mediatamt (mediatised administrative district) of Bentheim was established in 1824. It included the Obergrafschaft (Upper County) without city and parish of Nordhorn and the municipality of Wietmarschen. In November 1813, when the Kingdom of Hannover regained the liens on the County of Bentheim, all the laws and institutions of the French period were suspended and dissolved in the same year, and the administrative organisation of 1804 was re-established, which means the Bentheim court regulation and state law code of 1690 was reintroduced. The administrative district was responsible for the general state administration, the administration of justice and the police administration of the first instance. In criminal matters, it was responsible for the entire county, only the first investigations remained with the administrative district of Neuenhaus. After the preceding renunciation of the Prince of Bentheim-Steinfurt, the state sovereign's rights were formally repealed by decree of 21 July 1848. The former mediatised state administrative districts (Mediatämter) existed unchanged as royal administrative districts. This step finally put on an equal level the county with the other Hanoverian parts of the country. When, in 1850, the separation of administration and judiciary in the kingdom took place, the administrative districts were limited to the tasks of the general state administration, while the judicial affairs were transferred to the district courts. This organisation remained unchanged until the introduction of the Prussian administrative district order in 1885.
- Access points: persons/families:
- Gottschalck, Benjamin
- Meyer, Calmon
- Meyer, Moses
- 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