Metadata: Contemporary History Collection (from 1945)
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:
- 802
- Title:
- Contemporary History Collection (from 1945)
- Title (official language):
- Zeitgeschichtliche Sammlung (ab 1945)
- Creator/accumulator:
- Hildesheim Municipal Archive
- Date(s):
- 1945/2020
- Date note:
- since 1945
- Language:
- German
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
- This collection includes documents from the time since 1945, which could not be assigned as parts of other collections. These are mainly general printed matter, with or without reference to Hildesheim, but also private documents. Included is a report by Gottfried Bökelmann about his encounter with a former forced labourer, a Jew who worked at his parents' farm in the Magdeburg Börde (landscape), 1993 (no. 10).
- 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:
- Magdeburg
- Access points: persons/families:
- Bökelmann, Gottfried
- Subject terms:
- Forced labour (of Jews)
- System of arrangement:
- The material is arranged in thematic order.
- Access, restrictions:
- Access to newer files might be restricted according to archive regulations and data protection laws. Please consult the online finding aid Arcinsys for potential restrictions on individual files.
- Finding aids:
- An online finding aid (Arcinsys) is available.
- 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
