Metadata: Gartetalbahn [small train in 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:
- GKB
- Title:
- Gartetalbahn [small train in Göttingen]
- Title (official language):
- Gartetalbahn (Göttinger Kleinbahn)
- Creator/accumulator:
- District Office Göttingen
- Date(s):
- 1800/2020
- Date note:
- 19th century to current
- Language:
- German
- Extent:
- 252 files
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
- The collection "Gartetalbahn" includes among others reimbursement claims of a Jewish manufacturer’s family from Beverungen and Karlshafen due to a property in Rittmarshausen (no. 140; 174).
- Archival history:
-
According to the description of the collection "the district registry was subjected to a thorough process of selection and deaccession, but not without expert knowledge" so that during the Second World War it still consisted of 100 shelves of files. Another large-scale selection processes in the 1960s reduced the holdings of the Landratsamt (district office) 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 processes of replacement. 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 of 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 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:
- Beverungen
- Göttingen
- Karlshafen
- Rittmarshausen
- Subject terms:
- Manufacturing
- Real estate
- System of arrangement:
- The material is arranged in thematical order.
- Access, restrictions:
- Access to more recent files might be restricted due to retention periods.
- Finding aids:
- As of 2018 no publicly available finding aid exists, although archivists have access to a catalogue using AUGIAS software.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Institute for the History of German Jews
- Author of the description:
- Matthias Springborn; 2018
