Metadata: General church matters
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 XII
- Title:
- General church matters
- Title (official language):
- Allgemeine Kirchensachen
- Creator/accumulator:
- Einbeck Town Council
- Date(s):
- 1577/1942
- Language:
- German
- Extent:
- ca. 353 files
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
- The collection “HR 01 Glaubensgemeinschaften“ (“faith communities“) 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 “General church matters“ is part of this larger collection and includes, among others, a directory of births, marriages and deaths in the parish of the Markt and Neustädter Church, Münster Church and the Jewish congregation of Einbeck, 1801-1875 (no. 38-41).
- 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. This collection must have been created at some time after 1945. Its structure probably reflects in large parts the administrative order of the institutional provenance. According to the current archivist no records are available regarding the creation of the collection, as is unfortunately the case with many other collections of the Einbeck municipal archives. The current structure and record numbers have remained the same since at least the 1960s when Erich Plümer created a register of the collection in 1965. A more detailed finding aid can now be found online at “Arcinsys Niedersachsen“, created by archivist Susanne Gerdes. This was the first collection that was made available online by the Einbeck 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
- System of arrangement:
- The material is arranged in thematic order by subject and mostly in chronological order within each subject.
- Finding aids:
- An online finding aid (Arcinsys) is available. Printed finding aid: “BXII Kirchensachen“ (ca. 1965)
- 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