Metadata: Case Files of the Magistrate Court; Case Files of the "Gewett"
Collection
- Country:
- Germany
- Holding institution:
- City Archive of the Hanseatic City of Wismar
- Holding institution (official language):
- Stadtarchiv Wismar
- Postal address:
- Altwismarstr. 7-17, 23966 Wismar
- Phone number:
- + 49 3841 251 4081
- Email:
- stadtarchiv@wismar.de
- Reference number:
- Abt. III. Rep. 1. Db; Abt. III. Rep. 1 Dc
- Title:
- Case Files of the Magistrate Court; Case Files of the "Gewett"
- Title (official language):
- Prozeßakten des Magistratsgerichts; Prozeßakten des Gewetts
- Creator/accumulator:
- Magistrate Court; Gewett
- Date(s):
- 1750/1872
- Language:
- German
- Extent:
- 10 folders
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
- The case files of the magistrate court and the “Gewett” deal with repeated disputes and complaints about residence permits, debts, insults, and the calculation of false weight. Div. III. Rep. 1. Db Applicants F to S; Div. III. Rep. 1 Dc Applicants H to V.
- Archival history:
- The collections of the City Archive of Wismar are currently being reorganised. Since the Middle Ages, the City Archive kept the documents of the city’s rights and privileges, initially as usual in the town hall, presumably under the direction of the financial department. Some of the originals were lost due to fires. Copies that had been kept elsewhere have been preserved. Both before and after the Reformation the city council of Wismar was responsible for the administration of the church's property, which was maintained even after the separation of state and church. In the 17th century there were the beginnings of a systematically arranged archive depot, but conditions in the various rooms of the town hall were often inadequate and insufficient well into the 20th century. In 1807 the town hall collapsed and files were removed, being returned to the new town hall in 1818. The records of the Magistrate's Court 1750-1872 are missing; Abt. III. Rep. 1 Db 02.1. are missing. Additional sources include civil status books and building files.
- Access points: persons/families:
- Bendichs
- Brockmann
- Bunese
- Denker
- Elias, Jacob
- Haase
- Hinrichsen, Ruben Michel
- Israel, Joseph
- Israel, Wolf
- Kahl, Hans
- Levin, Hirsch
- Levin, Jacob
- Liefmann, Moses
- Liestmann, Moses
- Marcus
- Meyer
- Moser, Jacob
- Peckstein, Peter Paul
- Sack, Christian
- Samuel, Magnus
- Siegel, Christian
- Spannier, Jacob
- Stern, Meyer Isaac
- Struck
- Sustmann
- Velthusen, Johann Caspar
- Vogt
- von Ahlefeldt
- von Elswig
- System of arrangement:
- The collection consists of single sheets arranged in chronological order.
- Finding aids:
- Data on the collection is available at the web portal of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Ariadne. A published finding aid is: Findbuch für Judaica in den Kreis- und Stadtarchiven Westmecklenburgs, published by Verein für jüdische Geschichte in Mecklenburg und Vorpommern e.V., edited by Norbert Francke, Schwerin 2001 (partially obsolete). Lists of the collection are also available.
- Links to finding aids:
- https://ariadne.uni-greifswald.de/?arc=15
- https://www.archivportal-d.de
- Yerusha Network member:
- Institute for the History of German Jews
- Author of the description:
- Christine Schatz, Hamburg
