Metadata: Jewish Community - Taxes and Charges
Collection
- Country:
- Germany
- Holding institution:
- Einbeck Municipal Archive
- Holding institution (official language):
- Stadtarchiv Einbeck
- Postal address:
- Postfach 1824, 37559 Einbeck
- Phone number:
- +49 5561 971710
- Email:
- museum@einbeck.de
- Reference number:
- HR 01, B XIV, No. 105-114
- Title:
- Jewish Community - Taxes and Charges
- Title (official language):
- Jüdische Gemeinde – Abgaben und Lasten
- Creator/accumulator:
- Einbeck Town Council
- Date(s):
- 1749/1916
- Language:
- German
- Extent:
- 9 files
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
-
The collection “Jewish community“ is part of the larger collection “HR 01 Glaubensgemeinschaften“ (“faith communities“) and consists of documents of a large variety of administrative backgrounds, including files from the police, the magistrate and various offices of the city council.
The series “Taxes and Charges“ includes files regarding the surplice fees (“Stolgebühren“) to be paid by the Jews in Einbeck, 1749-1773 (no. 105); taxes of the Schutzjuden (“protected Jews”) in Einbeck, 1751 (no. 106); complaints of members of the Israelite congregation in Einbeck to the city council because of excessive contributions to the “Konsistorialsteuer“, 1810-1811 (no. 107); surplice fees (“Stolgebühren“) to be paid by the Jews in Einbeck, 1824-1875 (no. 108); contributions of the Jews to the district rabbi's (“Landrabbiner“) fund and the general Jewish poverty fund, 1832-1916 (no. 109); the collection of membership fees from the members of the Jewish congregation in Einbeck, 1837 (no. 110); contributions of the members of the Jewish congregation in Einbeck to the costs of the Jewish synagogue, school and welfare for the poor, 1844-1858 (no. 111); distribution of the dues and charges of the synagogue association of Einbeck, 1844-1915 (no. 112); bills and board elections of the Jewish congregation in Einbeck, 1845-1892 (no. 113); report of the synagogue association of Einbeck because of the new fee tax (“Gebührentaxe“) for the district rabbi of the district rabbinate Hildesheim, 1903 (no. 114).
- Archival history:
- An older archive of the town of Einbeck was destroyed in a fire in 1540. Newer archival material that has been created since then was sorted for the first time between 1864 and 1866. Since 1962 a reorganisation and new cataloguing have been taken place. The collection “Jewish congregation“ is part of the larger collection “HR 01 Glaubensgemeinschaften“ (“faith communities“) and consists of documents of a large variety of administrative backgrounds, including files from the police, the magistrate and various offices of the city council. The collection “Jewish community“ in its current composition must have been created at some time after 1945. Its structure probably reflects in larger parts the administrative order of the institutional provenance. According to the current archivist there is no documentation about the time or method of the collection's creation, as is unfortunately the case with many other collections of the Einbeck municipal archive, too. Therefore the amount of information about administrative changes and other aspects of the collection's history is limited. The current structure and signatures have remained the same since at least the 1960s, when Erich Plümer compiled a register of the collection in 1965. A more detailed register of HR 01 is to be found online in “Arcinsys Niedersachsen“, created by archivist Susanne Gerdes, as the first collection that has been made available online by Einbeck's archive.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- The town of Einbeck belonged to the principality of Grubenhagen from 1816 to 1866. Its local Jewish congregation was subordinated to the “Landrabbinat“ (district rabbinate) of Hildesheim. The Grubenhagen principality was part of the kingdom (later province) of Hannover, which was under Prussian rule from 1866. In 1885 the new Einbeck district was founded, which did not join the Northeim district until 1974. The Einbeck district belonged to the “Regierungsbezirk“ (administrative district) of Hildesheim. Since 1974 part of the Northeim district, the district and with it the town of Einbeck were transferred to the administrative district Braunschweig in 1978 and were under its administration till 2004. Since then it has been under direct administration of the Federal State of Lower Saxony of which Einbeck is a part since the former province of Hannover among other smaller territories was reorganised as the State of Lower Saxony in 1946.
- Access points: locations:
- Einbeck
- Subject terms:
- Financial matters
- Jewish community
- Jewish community records
- Rabbis
- Synagogues
- Welfare
- System of arrangement:
- The material is arranged in thematic order by subject and mostly in chronological order within each subject.
- Finding aids:
- Online finding aid (arcinsys); printed finding aid “BXIV Judensachen“ (Erich Plümer, Einbeck 1965, unpublished).
- 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, 2018
