Metadata: Osterhol 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 Osterholz
- Title:
- Osterhol District Office (until 1885)
- Title (official language):
- Amt Osterholz (bis 1885)
- Creator/accumulator:
- Osterhol District Office
- Date(s):
- 1592/1900
- Language:
- German
- Extent:
- 60 linear metres
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
-
This collection includes a series entitled “Protection of Jews“ (“Judenschutz“), 24 files, 1723/1866 (no. 103-125, 3269), including e. g. information about an investigation because of a “Jewish temple“ (“Judentempel“, i.e. synagogue) established in Ritterhude and the Jews present there, 1734/1737 (no. 106); various protection matters regarding Jews of the Osterholz district, 1791/1830 (no. 108); the appointment of a head of the Jews in Osterholz district and the direction of the Israelite community affairs of the second district, 1824/1837 (no. 118); protection in general, protection letters and awards, adoption of fixed family names by Jews, payment of protection fees.
Also relevant is the series “Church and school matters of the Jewish congregation“ (“Kirchen- und Schulsachen der jüdischen Gemeinde“), 23 files, 1757/1896, including e. g. the Jewish cemetery in Scharmbeck, 1757/1850 (no. 80); complaints about the contribution to the costs of the larger Jewish poverty association, 1851/1853 (no. 2483); the religious conditions of Jews and construction of a synagogue in Scharmbeck, 1768/1858 (no. 3708); support of Jews in need, 1832/1869 (no. 3710-3711); the contributions of the Israelites of Scharmbeck to the costs of the Lutheran church, 1872/1873 (no. 3706); and the purchase of a Torah, Jewish congregational costs, complaints, investigations against Jewish persons, bills, etc.
In addition, other series include for example domicile matters (“Domizilsachen“) of Jews, 1823/1871, including a file on the barrel factory of the brothers Haunroth in Hammersbeck, domicile permits with name lists (no. 2560).
- 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:
- Hammersbeck
- Osterholz
- Ritterhude
- Scharmbeck
- Stade
- Access points: persons/families:
- Haunroth
- System of arrangement:
- The material is arranged in thematic order.
- Finding aids:
- An online finding aid (Arcinsys) is available. Printed finding aid: "Rep. 74 Osterholz. Vol. 1-2”.
- 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