Metadata: Official Records of the Old Town
Collection
- Country:
- Germany
- Holding institution:
- Hildesheim Municipal Archive
- Holding institution (official language):
- Stadtarchiv Hildesheim
- Postal address:
- Am Steine 7, 31134 Hildesheim
- Phone number:
- +49 5121 301 4100
- Web address:
- https://www.hildesheim.de/stadtarchiv.html
- Reference number:
- 50
- Title:
- Official Records of the Old Town
- Title (official language):
- Amtsbücher der Altstadt
- Creator/accumulator:
- Hildesheim city administration
- Date(s):
- 1368/1938
- Language:
- German
- Hebrew
- Latin
- Extent:
- 110 linear metres
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
- This collection includes, among others, the municipal law book of Matthias Beurmann, a systematically structured collection of initiated and annotated extracts from legal documents of the city, created around 1678, which also includes township rights such as mint; hunting; fishing; bird catching; afforesting; grazing; freedom from duties; excise; market; safe conduct or the Protection of Jews (“Judenschutz“) (no. 9); a municipal law book with extracts dealing with individual legal areas such as establishment of the diocese; privileges and immunities; contracts between city and bishop; between cathedral chapter and city; mint law; meadows and gardens; mills; fisheries; customs; stone pit; ditches; estates; cemeteries; as well as Jews, c. 1684 (no.11); a memory book (Memorienbuch) of the Council, bound in Hebrew parchment lettering, 1440-1460, mid-15th century (no. 349).
- Administrative/biographical history:
- The city of Hildesheim was the capital of the prince-bishopric principality (Fürstbistum) Hildesheim until the end of the Holy Roman Empire. It was independent within the principality and assigned to none of its districts. After the secularisation of the diocese in 1802, the city and principality fell to Prussia after the peace treaty of Paris. After the defeat of Prussia in the battle near Jena and Auerstedt in 1806 , the city became part of the newly formed Kingdom of Westphalia, a Napoleonic satellite state, and became the capital of the district Hildesheim in the Département de l'Ocker (Oker District). Through an agreement between Prussia and Hanover in 1813, which was confirmed at the Congress of Vienna, the principality of Hildesheim became a part of the Kingdom of Hanover. The city of Hildesheim became independent under the new Hanoverian constitution and remained an independent city, even after the acquisition of the Kingdom of Hanover by Prussia in 1866 and the Prussian district reform of 1885. In 1911, the community of Moritzberg was incorporated, as well as Gutsbezirk Steuerwald in 1912. In 1938, the urban area was extended by the villages Neuhof and Drispenstedt. As part of an administrative and territorial reform in 1974, the city of Hildesheim was incorporated into the district of Hildesheim. At the same time, the city was enlarged by the municipalities of Achtum-Uppen; Bavenstedt; Einum; Himmelsthür; Itzum; Marienburg; Marienrode and Sorsum, making it a metropolis (Großstadt). In 2013, Hildesheim lost the metropolitan status due to the nationwide census which established fewer than 100,000 inhabitants in Hildesheim. [Information taken from the archive's website (German): hildesheim.de ]
- Access points: persons/families:
- Beurmann, Matthias
- Subject terms:
- Agriculture
- Cemeteries
- Legal matters
- Legal records
- Minting
- Privileges
- Trade and commerce
- System of arrangement:
- The material is arranged in thematic order.
- Finding aids:
- An online finding aid (Arcinsys) is available. Printed finding aid: "Bestand 50 Stadtbücher der Altstadt Hildesheim 1368-1938“ (Hildesheim 2006)
- 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