Metadata: City files
Collection
- Country:
- Germany
- Holding institution:
- Grevesmühlen City Archive
- Holding institution (official language):
- Stadtarchiv Grevesmühlen
- Postal address:
- Rosa-Luxemburg-Str. 1a, 23936 Grevesmühlen
- Phone number:
- + 49 3881 723 145
- Email:
- a.rehwaldt@grevesmuehlen.de
- Reference number:
- 2.1.
- Title:
- City files
- Title (official language):
- Stadtakten
- Creator/accumulator:
- Magistrate; City Council
- Date(s):
- 1794/1945
- Language:
- German
- Extent:
- 22 folders
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
-
The collection contains files on individuals, applications for settlement, the Jewish congregation of Grevesmühlen and its administration, censuses, house purchases and house exchanges. Specific items of interest are:
Sig. 120 (1857/1859) application for settlement Salomon Friedheim;
Sig. 130 (1857/1869) municipal court Grevesmühlen, file on annual reports on the Jewish curates;
Sig. 133 (1832) goldsmith Levin Friedheim sues Meier Hinrichs for harassment;
Sig. 294 (1836/1837) purchase of a house by the physician Dr. Behrend;
Sig. 307 (1846) widow Mariane Aarons;
Sig. 363 (1856/1936) permission for the merchant Aby Friedheim to establish a family burial on the Jewish cemetery; correspondence and council decisions;
Sig. 365 (1838/1842) Israelitische Gemeinde, administration, sigil, part. Hebrew script;
Sig. 366 (1825/1835) Jewish community affair (file in poor condition);
Sig. 445 (1819/1863) merchant Meyer Hinrichs buys and builds a house;
Sig. 581 (1820) goldsmith Levi Friedheim proceedings for tax debts;
Sig. 366 (1825/1835) Jewish community affairs (file in poor condition);
Sig. 445 (1819/1863) 685 (1902/1932/1931/1945) sale of the department store "Karseboom" of the Jewish merchant Max Salomon; changes in the retail businesses;
Sig. 699 (1938): Jewish foundations and associations; letter of the "Deutscher Gemeindetag" (German Congregation Day) (1939);
Sig. 726 (1933/1938): anti-Jewish propaganda;
Sig. 755 (1882/1945) emigration; lists of names (1880s); Jewish emigrants to Australia via Italy by Lloyd Triestino in Trieste (copy of a letter from 1938); Jews to be excluded from the travel agency business (1938); transport of Jewish children abroad (1938); Reichszentrale jüdische Auswanderung (1939);
Sig. 769 (1816/1819) census 1816 and 1819 contains lists of inhabitants; Sig. 798 (1865/1944) use of archives by Jews and foreigners;
Sig. 888 (1911/1920) files on the contributions to the treasury of the Israelitische Landesgemeinde, mandates and announcements;
Sig. 898 (1794/1795) Schutzjude Simon Baruch Aarons exchanges house with Maurer Greulich;
Sig. 912 (1845/1942): Jewish congregation Grevesmühlen; introduction of a congregation order 1845 after presentation of the Goldberg congregation order (ducal mandates); magistrate protocols; Jewish cemetery (conveyance; desecration);
Sig. 954 (1837) merchant Abraham Friedheim; financial circumstances;
Sig. 983 (1839) Guarantee of the head of the Jewish community Levin Pincus for Schächter Haase from Pomerania;
Sig. 1019 (1817) exclusion of Jews from public property auctions;
Sig. 1020 (1833) merchant Moses Aaron asks for permission to employ a foreign Jewish apprentice;
Sig. 1025 (1858/1810): registration; list of names (1810); change of name (1813).
- Archival history:
- The city archive looks after the historical and current records of the city of Grevesmühlen and the Grevesmühlen-Land office with its associated municipalities. The holdings of the city archive are divided into three accession periods: 1. period until 1945, 2. period of 1945-1990 (this includes no. 166 maintenance of the Jewish cemetery with funds of a blocked account of the Jewish merchant Salomon), 3. period since 1990. Building and land files represent supplementary sources.
- Access points: persons/families:
- Aaron, Moses
- Aarons, Baruch Simon
- Aarons, Mariane
- Abraham, David
- Behrend
- Benjamin, Joseph
- Friedheim, Abraham
- Friedheim, Aby
- Friedheim, Levin
- Friedheim, Salomon
- Haase
- Heinrichs, Meyer
- Hinrichs, Meier
- Itzig
- Joseph, Isaack
- Levissohn
- Lewenthal
- Pincus, Levin
- Rosenthal
- Salomon, Max
- Salomon, Simon
- Silberstein
- Wolff, David
- System of arrangement:
- Single folders are arranged systematically.
- Finding aids:
-
Overview of the archives in North West Mecklenburg (City Archive Grevesmühlen, p. 53-63), in: Arndt, Gabriele et al.: Einblicke zwischen Schaalsee und Salzhaff 10. Von Wappen, Notgeld, Konsumverein, Dem Hühn'schen Erbe und Lenins Vorfahren. Erlebte Geschichte aus den Archiven Nordwestmecklenburgs, 2004.
Jewish Birth, Marriage and Death Registers (1813-1918) are available online at Ancestry.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Institute for the History of German Jews
- Author of the description:
- Christine Schatz, Hamburg
