Metadata: Altentreptow Town Administration
Collection
- Country:
- Germany
- Holding institution:
- Greifswald State Archive
- Holding institution (official language):
- Landesarchiv Greifswald
- Postal address:
- Martin-Andersen-Nexö-Platz 1, 17489 Greifswald
- Phone number:
- +49 385 58879700
- Email:
- poststelle-gw@lakd-mv.de
- Reference number:
- 038.02 Rep. 38B Stadtverwaltung Altentreptow
- Title:
- Altentreptow Town Administration
- Title (official language):
- Stadtverwaltung Altentreptow
- Creator/accumulator:
- Altentreptow Town Administration
- Date(s):
- 1722/1937
- Language:
- German
- Extent:
- approx. 0.2 linear metres (11 relevant files)
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
-
The collection comprises the material deriving from the Altentreptow town administration, dating from the Prussian era. It includes 11 files relevant for Jewish history from the 19th and 20th century.
No. 602 and 604: education of Jewish children (1822-1892), including official decrees and bills concerning subjects such as their right to attend public schools while having separate religious classes. The files also includes material about tuition fees.
No. 690: lists of Jews living in the region (1812-1847), including various alphabetical lists from four decades, names in alphabetical order, including social statistics (birth dates, professions etc.)
No. 988: acquisition of data about Jews living in Germany as executed by the political police in Altentreptow. The file comprises early material from 1812 on, but also material about the statistics produced in the time of National Socialism.
No. 990: births, marriages and deaths in the Jewish congregation of Altentreptow, including the correspondence providing these statistics to the town administration (1824-1937).
No. 993: Jewish cemetery in Altentreptow, starting with its establishment in 1841, including material about its maintenance until 1931.
No. 994: legal situation of Jews after the 1847 Law regarding the Conditions of the Jews (“Gesetz über die Verhältnisse der Juden“), liberalising the legal situation of the Jews. The file contains correspondence about the further organisation of Jewish religious practice and material about the legal situation of the Jews, e.g. questions of citizenship, civil and economic rights.
No. 996: general correspondence and case file material about the banishment of Jews for “vagabonding” and subversive activities (1859-1935).
No. 1142 and 1143: Altentreptow health police, including correspondence about special fees paid by Jews for births and marriages (1818-1875).
No. 1494: collection of edicts, decrees and bills, including a circular announcing the rights and privileges of local Schutzjude Abraham Meyer Jakob (1763).
- Archival history:
- The records in this collection came to the archive as part of the regular document transfer process.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- The region around Altentreptow was part of Swedish Pomerania until 1720. By the Treaty of Stockholm the kingdom of Sweden relinquished various regions in Pomerania. The Altentreptow region became a part of Prussia.
- Access points: locations:
- Altentreptow
- Access points: persons/families:
- Jakob, Abraham Meyer
- System of arrangement:
- The material in each file is arranged chronologically, lists (e.g. of congregation members) are arranged aphabetically.
- Finding aids:
- A digital finding aid and a printed finding aid are available.
- Links to finding aids:
- https://ariadne-portal.uni-greifswald.de/
- Yerusha Network member:
- Institute for the History of German Jews
- Author of the description:
- Matthias Loeber, Bremen