Metadata: District Office Göttingen
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 GOE
- Title:
- District Office Göttingen
- Title (official language):
- Landratsamt Göttingen
- Creator/accumulator:
- District Office Göttingen
- Date(s):
- 1800/2020
- Date note:
- 19th century to current
- Language:
- German
- Extent:
- Around 110.8 linear metres (in 2016), including around 28.9 linear metres for the old Göttingen district to 1972 and around 81.9 additional linear metres for the period from 1972 to 2016.
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
- This collection includes among others files about the establishment of a goods stop at the narrow gauge railway Göttingen-Rittmarshausen by the Jewish owned linen mill company S & A Rosenberg, Göttingen in 1904, which was later "aryanised" (no. 231) and files regarding Jewish landownership in Bremke, 1940-42 (no. 242).
- Archival history:
- According to the description of the collection "the district registry was assessed and deaccessioned very sharply, but not without expert knowledge" so that during the Second World War 100 shelves of files were still in existence. Another large-scale deaccessioning project in the 1960s brought the Landratsamt's (district office's) holdings down to 274 units (the inventory of the district council belonging to the above-mentioned registry comprises just 104 units). The vast majority of this collection concerns church and school matters. The second largest group are replacement processes. In the Main State Archive Hannover 163 files of the district of Göttingen are stored, from the provenance of the district office as well as from the district committee. The inventory in the District Archives was recorded electronically in 1991 using SACHAV and WORKS. 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 Göttingen were transferred to Osterode.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- The district of Göttingen was formed in 1885 from the former district offices ("Ämter") of Göttingen and Reinhausen, to which numerous communities ("Gemeinden") and estate districts ("Gutsbezirke") belonged. In the course of the dissolution of the estate districts in 1927 these were affiliated to the surrounding communities; only the estate district Deppoldshausen became an independent municipality. From 1 October 1932 to 1 October 1933, the district administrator of the district of Göttingen was also responsible for the tasks of the district administration ("Landratsamt") Hannoversch Münden, as the districts were merged at short notice. With the exception of a file on the merger itself, this fact is not reflected in the existing collection. 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:
- Bremke
- Göttingen
- Rittmarshausen
- Subject terms:
- Land
- Nazism
- Plunder--Aryanisation
- Trade and commerce
- System of arrangement:
- The main structure of the collection mostly arranged by communal office, thus in thematical order.
- Finding aids:
- A printed finding aid is available for records up to 1945 – "Landratsamt Göttingen (LA GÖ), Kreisausschuß Göttingen (KA GÖ), Kreisbauernschaft Göttingen (KB GÖ), Landwirtschaftlicher Kreisverein Göttingen (Dep1)" (1991). For the period from 1945 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