Metadata: Judicature
Collection
- Country:
- Germany
- Holding institution:
- Lingen Town Archive
- Holding institution (official language):
- Stadtarchiv Lingen
- Postal address:
- Baccumer Straße 22, 49808 Lingen
- Phone number:
- +49 591 91671 10
- Title:
- Judicature
- Title (official language):
- Rechtspflege
- Creator/accumulator:
- Lingen Town Administration
- Date(s):
- 1768/1805
- Language:
- German
- Extent:
- Approx. 1,0 linear mestres (35 files)
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
-
The Judicature section is a sub-collection within the collection “Old Archive 1“ at Lingen Town Archive. It is divided into various sub-sections concerning different aspects and types of judicature. This part of the old town archive contains 35 files concerning court trials involving local Jews.
Files 4516-4530 comprise material about trials involving local Jew Abraham Abraham who enjoyed the special state of protection as a “Schutzjude“. He was involved in various legal conflicts, most of them concerning outstanding debts and delayed payments, but at least two of them (4517, 4530) dealing with cases of insult. The material dates from the 1780s and 1790s. Beside the Abraham trials the collection contains various single case files or smaller sets of files of case file material concerning an individual person. Most of the cases documented in the collection are business conflicts, e.g. outstanding payments of invoices, delayed delivery of goods, violations of contracts or casesof fraud. The conflicts occur between Jewish merchants and their non-Jewish trade partners as well as inside the Jewish community. The collection also covers various cases of insults. Some examples are:
File 4855 - case of insult between Jewish farmhand Simon Jacob and local carpenter Mutert; File 4861 - case of insult between Jewish farmhand Jacob Joseph and local citizen Wilhelm Neuhaus; Files 4862 and 4862 - local Jew Isaac involved in a case of insult and an economic conflict; File 5186 - business conflict between local merchant Smit and Jewish merchant Abraham concerning the delivery of meat; File 5295 - financial conflict between local pastor Tenbrock and local Jew Isaac; File 5367 - conflict between David Wolff and the Marß brothers concerning a fur trade.
The majority of the single case files are rather thin and usually consist of only a few pages. Most of them include the charges, correspondence regarding evidence, the statements made by claimants and defendants and the verdict. Most cases of economic conflicts are ended by a settlement including financial compensation. The full list of case file material can be easily browsed in the archive's online finding aids.
- Access points: locations:
- Lingen
- Plantlünne
- Subject terms:
- Financial matters
- Financial matters--Debt
- Legal matters
- Trade and commerce
- System of arrangement:
- The material in each file is arranged chronologically, the files being arranged roughly chronologically within the collection.
- Finding aids:
- A printed finding aid is available in the archive; a digital finding aid also exists.
- Links to finding aids:
- https://www.arcinsys.niedersachsen.de/arcinsys/start.action?oldNodeid=
- Yerusha Network member:
- Institute for the History of German Jews
- Author of the description:
- Matthias Loeber, Bremen
