Verden District Court (until 1973)

Collection

Holding institution (official language):: Niedersächsisches Landesarchiv Stade

Scope and content:: This collection includes the testament of the protected Jew Moses David in Dörverden, 1823/1824 (no. 401); purchase contracts for manors in Drakenburg, including as a seller the merchant Sigismund Katzenstein from Hannover and banker Alex Oppenheimer from Hannover, the latter as general representative of the banker Moritz Oppenheimer from Hannover and the merchant Israel Wertheim from Braunschweig, with corresponding general authorisations of the two for Alex Oppenheimer from 1885, 1887 (no. 2801); the inquisition costs to be paid for offences committed at manors in the district and the city of Verden, especially the inquisition costs for the imprisoned Jew Isaac Abraham from Mühlhausen, 1789 (no. 2956).

Administrative/biographical history:: When the Landdrostei Stade was founded as an administrative district within the Kingdom of Hanover in 1823, it included three historical territories: the Duchy of Bremen, the Duchy of Verden and the “Land Hadeln”. After Hanover was annexed by Prussia in 1867, the Landdrostei continued to exist until 1885, when it was reorganised as the new governmental (or administrative) district of Stade. In 1937, the city of Cuxhaven became part of this administrative district and therefore part of the province of Hanover. Other minor territorial changes also took place in the 1920s and 1930s. After the Second World War the district was part of the British zone of occupation and later became part of the state of Lower Saxony within the Federal Republic of Germany. In 1978, following administrative changes in the districts of Lower Saxony during which the Stade district lost larger parts of its territory, the remaining parts were incorporated into the administrative district of Lüneburg. The Lüneburg district was dissolved in 2004 like all other administrative districts of the same level (Regierungsbezirke) in Lower Saxony.

Access points: locations:: Braunschweig; Brunswick; Dörverden; Drakenburg; Hannover; Mühlhausen; Stade; Verden

Access points: persons/families:: Abraham, Isaac; David, Moses; Katzenstein, Sigismund; Oppenheimer, Alex; Oppenheimer, Moritz; Wertheim, Israel

Access, restrictions:: Access to some files is restricted for a certain period of time.

Finding aids:: An online finding aid (Arcinsys) is available. Printed finding aid: "Rep. 72/172 Verden“; thematical finding aid: “SFB 13. Judaica (NS-Zeit). Übersicht über die Bestände des Niedersächsischen Staatsarchivs Stade zur Judenverfolgung in der NS-Zeit. Erstellt im Auftrag der Holocaust-Gedenk- und Forschungsstätte Yad Vashem (Jerusalem/Israel) Jürgen Rosebrock (Hamburg), Mai 1998”.

Links to finding aids:: https://www.arcinsys.niedersachsen.de/arcinsys/start