Metadata: District Office Hannoversch Münden
Collection
- Country:
- Germany
- Holding institution:
- Göttingen District Archive
- Holding institution (official language):
- Kreisarchiv Landkreis Göttingen
- Postal address:
- Herzberger Straße 5, 37520 Osterode
- Phone number:
- +49-551-525-62510; +49-5522-960-4190
- Reference number:
- LA HMÜ
- Title:
- District Office Hannoversch Münden
- Title (official language):
- Landratsamt Hann. Münden
- Creator/accumulator:
- District Office Hannoversch Münden
- Date(s):
- 1700/1972
- Date note:
- (18th century)19th century/1972
- Language:
- German
- Extent:
- The specific extent is not known for the deposit LA HMÜ. Together with KA HMÜ it consists of around 78.5 linear metres (in 2016). For the time to 1945 the deposit LA HMÜ consists of around 1196 files.
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
-
The collection focuses on matters of the Münden district's communities, as well as church and school related topics. Of special interest regarding Jewish history are among other things files about Jewish industrialists (no. 98; 103; 127); taxes of the Jewish congregation (no. 275); the Jews of Dransfeld, their school, cemetery and officials (no. 270-271; 273-274; 277); the regional "Landrabbinat" (district rabbinate) (no. 276); Jewish elementary schools (no. 272; 282); antisemitic orders of the National Socialist regime against people with Jewish ancestry (no access to archives, no hunting licenses etc.) (no. 112; 1062; 1152); files regarding the local implementation of the National Socialist ''Law for the Restoration of the Professional Civil Service'' ("Gesetz zur Wiederherstellung des Berufsbeamtentums") of 1933 (no. 432; 434; 440; 464; 493; 549; 563; 607; 641; 656; 689; 720; 789; 810; 835; 849; 862; 886; 896; 918; 940; 943; 959; 974; 987; 993).
The older files (before 1935) are in mostly good condition, but newer ones are partially damaged because of worse paper quality and some sheets are missing.
- Archival history:
- After the dissolution of the district of Münden in 1972 and its union with the district of Göttingen, the files of the district office Münden came to Varmissen (town of Dransfeld), where since 1967 records from its old registry had been stored in a rented school. In October 1979 the material was transferred to the district archives of Göttingen. During a first registration no selection procedures took place. Nothing could be found about past selection and disposal, although there are noticeable gaps in the collection. Presumably, the missing files were deaccessioned by the district office or the county authority itself. In the course of taking over the file collection, eleven volumes of the district office registry from the years 1856 to 1939 were transferred to the Main State Archives in Hannover. After the last district reform which led to the merger of the districts of Göttingen and Osterode in 2016, the Göttingen district archives and thus also the holdings of the district office Hannoversch Münden were transferred to Osterode.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- The District of Münden was the southernmost district within the administrative district Hildesheim. It was formed in 1885 from the former office (“Amt”) Münden, the formerly independent city of Münden and parts of the former office (“Amt”) Reinhausen (municipality Meensen and estate district (“Gutsbezirk”) Ellerode). The Office of Münden had been extended in 1852 by the Office of Dransfeld, the monastery estate Bursfelde and the “Vorwerk” Ochsenhof of the Office Adelebsen. From October 1932 until October 1933 the district of Münden was dissolved and connected to the district of Göttingen. In 1972, the former districts of Hannoversch Münden and Duderstadt joined the district of Göttingen. In 2016 the districts of Göttingen and Osterode am Harz were merged.
- Access points: locations:
- Dransfeld
- Hannoversch Münden
- System of arrangement:
- The main structure of the collection mostly arranged by communal office, thus in thematical order. The order within the printed finding aid follows for the most part the older order of the district administrator's registry.
- Finding aids:
- A printed finding aid is available for records up to 1945 – "Landratsamt Hann. Münden (LA HMÜ)" (1991). For the period 1945-1972 archivists have access to an internal catalogue using AUGIAS software.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Institute for the History of German Jews
- Author of the description:
- Matthias Springborn; 2018