Metadata: A
Collection
- Country:
- Germany
- Holding institution:
- Goslar Municipal Archive
- Holding institution (official language):
- Stadtarchiv Goslar
- Postal address:
- Zehntstrasse 24, 38640 Goslar
- Phone number:
- +49 5321 383961
- Email:
- stadtarchiv@gmx.de
- Reference number:
- A
- Title:
- A
- Title (official language):
- A
- Creator/accumulator:
- Goslar Municipal Archive
- Date(s):
- 1200/1899
- Date note:
- 13th century/19th century
- Language:
- German
- Extent:
- extent unknown
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
- This collection comprises records on lawsuits and legal conflicts. The following items are relevant to Jewish history: Case of the grocers guild against the wife of the protected Jew (Schutzjude) Herz Jacob because of illicit trade in grocery, 1800/1801 (no. A 12587); theft committed by a Jew from outside Goslar in the mint, 1725/1726 (no. A 12593); inquisition against Friedrich Kappey because of the tin object(s) stolen by the Jewish woman Hirsch in Seesen, 1796 (no. A 12626); master Bekurs against the Jew Schey for the sale of a meadow, 1770 (no. A 12699); protected Jew (Schutzjude) Hertz Nathan against master Georg Christian Helmbrecht for overdue payments, 1755 (no. A 12744); Johann Andreas Siemens against Israel Hertz for money demand, 1753 (no. A 12794); Jacob Hertz against his brother Israel Hertz for an inheritance, 1753 (no. A 12796); protected Jew (Schutzjude) Jacob Schey against chief manufacturer (Oberfaktorin) Schrader because of interest payment for transferred pledged property (Pfandgut), 1750 (no. A 12827); Johann Heinrich Michaelis, guardian of Auguste Charlotte von Lampen in Vienenburg, against the Jew Nathan for safekeeping of pledges (Pfandgut), 1750 (no. A 12830); request of the converted Jew Christian Feldt for a contribution to the publication of a Jewish script, 1678 (reference number not recorded).
- Administrative/biographical history:
- Goslar was first documented in connection with silver mining at the Rammelsberg in 1005. The miners' settlement was called "villa Goslaria". It experienced an upswing by the relocation of the imperial palace (Pfalz) from Werla to Goslar around the year 1000. On the left bank of the river Gose, a planned market settlement was founded alongside the miner's settlement on the right bank. As early as the 11th century, Goslar had city-like privileges. Frederick II confirmed all previously granted city privileges in 1219. Goslar was “Oberhof“ for several 'daughter' cities, which adopted the Goslar city law. A municipal council can be documented from 1252 onwards, although there are signs that the council is even older and dates back to the year 1219. From 1290 the city council was composed of 19 councilmen. Among them were also members of the merchants, bakers, shoemakers and butchers guild as well as members of the miners and forest workers. Nobles ceased to be council members from 1269. At first, an imperial “Vogt“ stood at the head of the city. However, with the imperial immediacy (Reichsunmittelbarkeit) of 1290, the council also succeeded in acquiring the Reichsvogtei and thereby gaining greater autonomy. Mayors are first attested for 1366/67. Goslar accepted the Reformation in 1521. City fires in 1728 and 1780, especially in the lower city, caused great damage. Goslar became part of Prussia in 1803, part of the napoleonic Kingdom of Westphalia in 1807 and part of the Kingdom of Hanover in 1815, which was annexed by Prussia in 1866. In the wars of the 18th century and during the Second World War Goslar remained without damage. Goslar has been a city in the newly formed German state of Lower Saxony (Niedersachsen) since 1 November 1946.
- Access points: locations:
- Goslar
- Seesen
- Vienenburg
- Access points: persons/families:
- Feldt, Christian
- Hertz, Israel
- Hertz, Jacob
- Hirsch
- Jacob, Herz
- Kappey, Friedrich
- Nathan
- Nathan, Hertz
- Schey
- Schey, Jacob
- Subject terms:
- Crime
- Financial matters
- Legal matters
- Legal records
- System of arrangement:
- The material is arranged in thematic order.
- Finding aids:
- Printed finding aid: “Findbuch zum Bestand A. Gerichtsakten und dergl. der Reichsstadt Goslar 13.-19. Jhd., Teil I-III” (Goslar 1986), 3 + 1 volumes. A database for the internal use of archivists also exists.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Institute for the History of German Jews
- Author of the description:
- Matthias Springborn, 2019