Metadata: Stolp 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 Stolp
- Title:
- Stolp Town Administration
- Title (official language):
- Stadtverwaltung Stolp
- Creator/accumulator:
- Stolp Town Administration
- Date(s):
- 1730/1839
- Language:
- German
- Extent:
- approx. 0.2 linear metres (6 relevant files)
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
-
The collection comprises the written records of the Stolp town administration, including six files relevant for Jewish history:
No. 156: claims against local Jew Moses Abraham to pay harbour fees for his trades (1752).
No. 277: statistics about Jewish inhabitants in the town of Stolp, including details of the number of Jewish citizens, age, family and professions (1730-1828).
No. 287: conflict between the town administration and the widow of local Jew Moses Abraham, concerning his inheritance and outstanding payments.
No. 980: correspondence of the town administration with the local Jewish congregation and its chairman.
Similar to No. 277, files No. 981 and 985 comprise statistic material about Jews living in the town of Stolp, their professions, relations, ages and family statistics (1811-1839).
- Archival history:
- The records in this collection came to the archive as part of the regular document transfer process.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- The town of Stolp had been a part of Brandenburg, then Prussia-Brandenburg, then the kingdom of Prussia from 1648. It became part of Poland after the Second World War and is now called Słupsk.
- Access points: locations:
- Stolp (Słupsk)
- Access points: persons/families:
- Abraham, Moses
- System of arrangement:
- The material in each file is arranged chronologically.
- 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
