Metadata: Blumenthal District Office (until 1885)
Collection
- Country:
- Germany
- Holding institution:
- Lower Saxony State Archive Stade
- Holding institution (official language):
- Niedersächsisches Landesarchiv Stade
- Postal address:
- Am Staatsarchiv 1, 21680 Stade
- Phone number:
- +49 4141 66060-0
- Email:
- Stade@nla.niedersachsen.de
- Reference number:
- Rep. 74 Blumenthal
- Title:
- Blumenthal District Office (until 1885)
- Title (official language):
- Amt Blumenthal (bis 1885)
- Creator/accumulator:
- Blumenthal District Office
- Date(s):
- 1586/1923
- Language:
- German
- Extent:
- 65.5 linear metres
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
-
This collection includes a series entitled “Synagogue, school and poverty organisations of the Jews“ (“Synagogen, Schul- und Armenwesen der Juden“), 25 files, 1828/1888 (no. 2789-2813); which covers subjects such as the employment of Jewish teachers and district chiefs, founding of a Jewish congregation, disruptions to Jewish worship, construction of a synagogue, employment of Jewish congregational workers, legal relations of the Jews, congregational statutes, employment of a district rabbi (Landrabbiner), Jewish school and poverty organisations, establishment of an educational institution for Jewish teachers, compulsory schooling (Schulzwang) for Jewish children, Jewish cemeteries, Jewish congregational committees, Jewish butchers, mikvaot (Jewish baths), dissolution of a Jewish congregation, etc.
The series “Protection matters of Jews“ („Judenschutzsachen“), 33 files, 1792-1851 (no. 118-150), includes protection awards for Jews, granting of permits, adoption of surnames by Jews, etc.
Additional relevant files can be found in other series, among them the calculation of the protection fees to be paid by the Jews, 1825 (no. 1869).
- 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:
- Stade
- System of arrangement:
- The material is arranged in thematic order.
- Finding aids:
- An online finding aid (Arcinsys) is available. Printed finding aid: "Rep. 74 Blumenthal. Vol. 1-4”.
- Links to finding aids:
- https://www.arcinsys.niedersachsen.de/arcinsys/start
- Yerusha Network member:
- Institute for the History of German Jews
- Author of the description:
- Matthias Springborn, 2019