Metadata: Ca. 1617-1867
Collection
- Country:
- Germany
- Holding institution:
- Glückstadt Town Archive
- Holding institution (official language):
- Stadtarchiv Glückstadt
- Postal address:
- Stadtarchiv Glückstadt, Lentzenweg 14, 25348 Glückstadt
- Phone number:
- +49 4124 930520
- Reference number:
- A
- Title:
- Ca. 1617-1867
- Title (official language):
- Ca. 1617-1867
- Creator/accumulator:
- Glückstadt Town Administration
- Date(s):
- 1709/1915
- Language:
- German
- Hebrew
- Extent:
- approx. 0.3 linear metres (3 relevant boxes)
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
-
Collection A of the Glückstadt Town Archive comprises material from the town administration dating roughly from 1617 to 1867. It involves various materials about Jews in the town.
The sub-section about general administration (3.2.1) contains a file about citizenship rights, including material about Jews. The file contains applications for settlement and citizenship by Jews, members of other religious minorities and other groups as well as the correspondence about the applications, official decisions and several decrees and letters of citizenship.
The section about religious matters (3.3.6 Kirchensachen) involves a sub-section (No. 1252, divided into two boxes) about the Jewish congregation in Glückstadt with six sub-files of material from the time between 1709 and 1877, as follows:
File 1 (1709-1798): The file contains legal material such as various versions of the “Jew's Oath“, the oath sworn by Jews in court, correspondence with the Sephardi congregation in town and correspondence about individual cases of criminal investigation or about business conflicts. The file contains case material about Jews who were able to enter town due to the liberal settlement practice but were known to be criminals in other towns e.g. Hamburg. The file also contains supplications and requests by local Jewish citizens, as well as letters of protection and royal privileges granted to local Jewish citizens. It also includes lists of local congregation members.
File 2 (1800-1839) contains similar material. In addition it includes reports made by local authorities to the royal court about the Jews living in Glückstadt and the Jewish congregation. These reports are accompanied by lists of known local Jewish citizens and statistics about their business relations, professions and taxation.
File 3 (1840-1856) contains supplications, e.g. by local Jew Hermann Joseph Lübeck, concerning tuition fees for the Jewish school, with relevant correspondence. The file also comprises correspondence between the Royal Government of Schleswig-Holstein located in Gottorf and the Jewish congregation in Glückstadt. The file also contains lists of Jewish congregation members, including their congregation and school contributions. It furthermore contains annual reports (starting 1847) about births, deaths and marriages in the Jewish congregation.
File 4 (1804-1833) contains lists of congregation members, including information about their family background, royal privileges and requests for economic favours, as well as reports about the Jewish congregation.
File 5 (1843-1860) includes a register of Jews living in Glückstadt from 1859, listing 31 names. A second list from around 1850 names Jewish citizens and their professions. The file also contains correspondence about the relations between the Jewish congregation in Glückstadt and the chief rabbi (Oberrabbiner) in the nearby town of Altona, including efforts to standardise local congregation codes.
File 6 (1860-1877) contains a request sent by the local Jewish congregation to the town Magistrate asking for an annual financial support of 600 Taler and related correspondence. As the other files, No. 6 includes correspondence between the town administration, the royal government and the Jewish congregation.
- Archival history:
- The records in this collection came to the archive as part of the regular document transfer process.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- As Glückstadt was a late town foundation initiated by the Danish king Christian IV the Jewish congregation profited from various privileges and a liberal official approach. Glückstadt therefore attracted Jews, especially Sephardi Jews from Portugal, as well as other religious minorities who settled there.
- Access points: locations:
- Altona
- Elmshorn
- Friedrichstadt
- Glückstadt
- Gottorf
- Hamburg
- Lübeck
- Rendsburg
- Access points: persons/families:
- Abensen, Moses
- Blumensohn, Isaac
- Cohn, Moses Meyer
- Gerson, Moses
- Goldschmidt, Moses
- Hecht, Moses
- Heimann, Lotte
- Heimann, Michel
- Hertz, Juda
- Israel, Abraham
- Israel, Marcus
- Jacob, Joseph Isaac
- Jacobs, Susman
- Levi, Abraham Moses
- Levi, Hartig
- Levin, Juda
- Lübeck, Hermann Joseph
- Lübeck, Israel
- Marcus, Moses Israel
- Marx, Ruben
- Moses, David
- Philipp, Abraham
- Philipp, Mendel
- Philipp, Moritz
- Schwabe, Levin
- Selke, Elias
- Selke, Jacob
- Stibbel, Philipp Abraham
- Susmann, Julius
- Wolff, Benjamin
- Subject terms:
- Citizenship
- Crime
- Education
- Education--Schools and universities
- Jewish community
- Jewish community records
- Jewish oath
- Legal matters
- Privileges
- Professions
- Rabbis
- Residency issues of Jews
- Sephardi Jews
- Synagogues
- Vital records
- Vital records--Birth records
- Vital records--Death records
- Vital records--Marriage records
- System of arrangement:
- The material in each section is arranged in chronological order.
- Finding aids:
- A printed finding aid is available in the archive.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Institute for the History of German Jews
- Author of the description:
- Matthias Loeber, Bremen
