Metadata: Vegesack Administration
Collection
- Country:
- Germany
- Holding institution:
- Bremen State Archive
- Holding institution (official language):
- Staatsarchiv Bremen
- Postal address:
- Am Staatsarchiv 1, 28203 Bremen
- Phone number:
- +49 421 361 6221
- Web address:
- https://www.staatsarchiv.bremen.de/
- Reference number:
- 2-P.13
- Title:
- Vegesack Administration
- Title (official language):
- Verwaltung Vegesacks
- Creator/accumulator:
- Bremen City Council
- Date(s):
- 1817/1873
- Language:
- German
- Extent:
- approx. 0.03 linear metres (1 file)
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
- Collection 2-P.13 contains material from the department of Vegesack. It includes a single relevant file (2-P.13 Nr. 233), which contains a list of Jews living in the department in 1823 as well as the original questionnaires used for the creation of the list and questionnaires from 1825 asking local Jews about their origin and state of residence. The file also contains lists of Jewish inhabitants in the department district from the years 1826 to 1949. Another section of the file comprises material about a case of expulsion: local Jewish inhabitant Samuel Bähr is driven out of the department district in 1836 after being accused of several crimes.
- Archival history:
- The records in this collection came to the archive as part of the regular document transfer process.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- The department of Vegesack (Amt Vegesack) was under administration of Bremen city council until the grant of town ordinances and privileges in 1851 and the establishment of a local constitution in 1879.
- Access points: persons/families:
- Bähr, Samuel
- Subject terms:
- Census
- Crime
- Expulsion
- Vital records
- System of arrangement:
- The material is loosely arranged in chronological order.
- Finding aids:
- A digital finding aid is available.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Institute for the History of German Jews
- Author of the description:
- Matthias Loeber, Bremen