Metadata: Stralsund Government
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:
- 065.03 Rep. 65c
- Title:
- Stralsund Government
- Title (official language):
- Regierung Stralsund
- Creator/accumulator:
- Stralsund Government
- Date(s):
- 1818/1921
- Language:
- German
- Extent:
- approx. 1 linear metre (19 relevant files)
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
-
The collection comprises the state authority's material from the Prussian governmental district of Stralsund with its four sub-districts Franzburg, Grimmen, Rügen, Stralsund and Greifswald. The collection contains 19 files of relevant material.
No. 377 contains statistics about local Jewry, including the Jewish population, Jewish businesses and synagogues.
Nos. 378-380 comprise general material about the settlement of Jews in the district region.
No. 383 includes an issue of the Jewish newspaper “Der Israelit“ from 1842.
No. 1779 contains material about Jewish merchants resident in the town of Damgarten and their annual fees.
No. 2224 comprises documents from a trust run by the Jewish citizen Moses Lazarus Israel.
The most relevant section is contained in files No. 3085-3093. These files comprise the written records of the local Jewish population. This includes material about local synagogues (No. 3085), about education of Jewish children (No. 3086), 3091, 3092) and interaction between Jews and Christians (3087, 3089).
- Archival history:
- The records in this collection came to the archive as part of the regular document transfer process.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- The Prussian governmental district of Stralsund was established as one of three districts in the region of Pomerania. In 1818, following the 1815 Vienna Congress, it became a part of the Prussian kingdom.
- Access points: persons/families:
- Israel, Moses Lazarus
- System of arrangement:
- The material 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
