Metadata: Congregation of Hamburg
Collection
- Country:
- Germany
- Holding institution:
- Hamburg State Archive
- Holding institution (official language):
- Staatsarchiv Hamburg
- Postal address:
- Kattunbleiche 19, 22041 Hamburg
- Phone number:
- +49 (0)40 428313202
- Web address:
- www.hamburg.de/staatsarchiv
- Reference number:
- 522-1_
- Title:
- Congregation of Hamburg
- Title (official language):
- Hamburger Gemeinde
- Creator/accumulator:
- Congregation of Hamburg
- Date(s):
- 1703/1812
- Language:
- German
- Hebrew
- Yiddish
- Extent:
- the total extent of registry 131-1 I is 70.9 metres; no individual details are available.
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
- The files on the Hamburg congregation deal with the Jews in the Hamburg city area before the dissolution of the triple congregation of Altona, Hamburg, Wandsbek in 1812. The files are divided into two subcategories:"General and Miscellaneous" (Allgemeines und Verschiedenes) includes documents regulating the situation of German and Portuguese Jews in Hamburg, as well as minutes of board meetings. The second subcategory covers the accounts of the congregation.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- The files on the Hamburg congregation deal with the Jews in the Hamburg city area before the dissolution of the triple congregation of Altona, Hamburg, Wandsbek in 1812. The congregation existed in close connection with the Jewish congregations of Wandsbek and Altona, as they were the main places of residence of Jews in the Hamburg area. The council of the city of Hamburg enacted the Regulation of 1710, according to which congregation membership was obligatory for all Jews in Hamburg.
- Access points: locations:
- Hamburg
- Subject terms:
- Jewish community
- Jewish community records
- Synagogues
- System of arrangement:
- The material is arranged in thematic order.
- Finding aids:
- Overview, finding aid.
- Links to finding aids:
- https://recherche.staatsarchiv.hamburg.de/ScopeQuery5.2/detail.aspx?ID=1047116
- Yerusha Network member:
- Institute for the History of German Jews
- Author of the description:
- Esther Yen
