Metadata: Newspapers
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:
- 500
- Title:
- Newspapers
- Title (official language):
- Zeitungen
- Date(s):
- 1619/2018
- Language:
- German
- Extent:
- 300 linear metres
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
- This collection contains daily and weekly newspapers as well as numerous other printed periodicals from the early period of the periodical press in the 17th century to the present day. The focus is on local periodicals. In addition, non-local titles can be found in the collection especially from Hannover. Among the newspaper articles relevant to Jewish history are, for example: “The Jewish Congregation of Hildesheim“ (“Die Judengemeinde Hildesheim“), in: “Lug ins Land“, No. 3: 6 Feb 1932, No. 4: 20 Feb 1932 and No. 5: 5 Mar 1932 (series “61. Bernwardsblatt“, year 1932 – usage restricted).
- Archival history:
- The total of around 180,000 issues are mostly originals and are bound in most cases. Years before 1750 were collated. In the details of the newest periodicals missing individual issues are not always noted.
- 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:
- Hannover
- Subject terms:
- Jewish press
- Newspaper clippings
- System of arrangement:
- The material is arranged in thematic order.
- Access, restrictions:
- For conservation reasons, individual daily newspapers are not accessible. They might be available in exceptional cases and after consultation with archive staff.
- Finding aids:
- An online finding aid (Arcinsys) is available. Printed finding aid: "Bestand 500 Zeitungen“ (Hildesheim)
- 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
