Metadata: Old Files (AA) of the City Administration, 15th cent./1815
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:
- 100
- Title:
- Old Files (AA) of the City Administration, 15th cent./1815
- Title (official language):
- Alte Akten (AA) der Stadtverwaltung, 15. Jh./1815
- Creator/accumulator:
- Hildesheim City Administration
- Date(s):
- 1400/1815
- Date note:
- 15th century/1815
- Language:
- German
- Latin
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
- This collection includes, among others: letter from the Jew Michael of Derneburg to the council for compensation for losses suffered in the service of the city, 1523 (series 84, no. 1); two letters from the Jew Michael of Derneburg to the council regarding the limitation (Befristung) of the imprisoned clerk of Derneburg and the oppression of his family by the butchers, 1531 (series 84, no. 1 a); letter from Mich(a)el, a Jew of Derneburg, to count Wilhelm von Henneberg for an “intercession“ (Intersession) at the council of Hildesheim because of a demand on his brother Jost, a resident of Moritzberg, 1536 (series 84, no. 2); request for protection (Schutz) by the Jew Moses of Moritzberg to the council with reference to his services to the emperor and otherwise, 1568 (series 84, no. 3); a letter of protection (Geleitbrief) from the council for the Jew who had escaped from the city, Muse or Musche [Moses], 1571 (series 84, no. 3 a); the protection of the Jews (Judenschutz); the unilateral ordinance of the new town and the dispute with the episcopal government and the cathedral provost, many individual documents relating to the Jews from the years 1630/1696 are enclosed, files range from 1582 to 1736 (series 84, no. 4); council notice on the exiling of the Jews, 1595 (series 84, no. 4 a); the trial between the bishop and council at the Imperial Chamber Court for the stay of Max Judes and other Jews from Moritzberg in the city, 1596/1604 (series 84, no. 5); directories on the Jews and various documents on their taxation and other subjects, 17th century (series 84, no. 6 ); legal opinion on the question of whether a Jew should marry the sister of his deceased wife, 17th century (series 84, no. 7); draft of a request of the council to Emperor Rudolf II regarding the Jews, 1600 (series 84, no. 8); draft of a letter of Protection (Schutzbrief) of the council of the New Town for Heinrich Jude, 1602 (series 84, no. 9 ); complaint by Bernhard Schwartz to the council about usurious “Jews' interest" (“Judenzins“) of the Jew Nathan Schay, 1607 (series 84, no. 9 a); extracts on the synagogue and the residence of the Jews, 1608/1677 (series 84, no. 10); the Jewish funeral(s) and the so-called Judenteich (“Jew Pond“), 1610/1748 (series 84, no. 11 ); fragment from a complaint essay, apparently of the city of Hildesheim, concerning complaints about the Jews, 1610 (series 84, no. 11 a); declaration (Revers) of the Jew Nathan Schay regarding three houses on the Lappenberg, 1611 (series 84, no. 12); copy of the general letter of protection of Emperor Matthias for the Jews in the Reich (Holy Roman Empire), 1612 (series 84, no. 13); various affairs of the Jews in the old and new town (governing elections, disputes between the two cities, private matters, etc.), 1621/1806 (series 84, no. 14); letter of the heirs of the Jew Nathan Schay to the council on the alleged demand of Statius von Münchhausen, with an attached letter of the council to the government in Wolfenbüttel, 1629 (series 84, no. 14 a); obligation of the Jew Meyer Wallich of Minden for the captain (Hauptmann) Heinrich von Lüneburg over 4000 rf [Rhenish guilder], 1613 (series 84, no. 15); disputes between bishop and city Hildesheim over the protection of the Jews (Judengeleit) etc., 6 bound volumes (series 21, no. 94/1 – 94/6), and many other cases in context of the socio-political situation of the Jews, requests by individual Jews, lawsuits, complaints, financial regulations, Jewish institutions, especially the Jewish cemetery, letters of protection (Schutzbriefe), etc.
- 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: locations:
- Derneburg
- Moritzberg
- Access points: persons/families:
- Judes, Max
- Lüneburg, Heinrich von
- Michael of Derneburg
- Moses of Moritzberg
- Münchhausen, Statius von
- Schay, Nathan
- Schwartz, Bernhard
- Wallich, Meyer
- System of arrangement:
- The material is arranged in thematic order.
- Finding aids:
- An online finding aid (Arcinsys) is available. Printed finding aid: "Bestand 100, Bd. 1-2“ (Hildesheim 2011)
- 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