Metadata: Citizen Book for the Town of Glückstadt
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
- Title:
- Citizen Book for the Town of Glückstadt
- Title (official language):
- Bürgerbuch der Stadt Gückstadt
- Creator/accumulator:
- Glückstadt Town Administration
- Date(s):
- 1620/2007
- Date note:
- 1620/1850 (2007)
- Language:
- German
- Extent:
- approx. 0.03 linear metres (2 books)
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
- The citizen book was used to register new citizens and inhabitants moving to Glückstadt between 1620 and 1850. The book lists names, family backgrounds and professions and names Jews and especially Portuguese Sephardi Jews separately. Two copied volumes of a typewritten edition of the citizen book are available for research in the archive. The first book comprises the original entries, the second book contains the register. It has not been published and is hardly available outside Glückstadt.
- Archival history:
- The records in this collection came to the archive as part of the regular document transfer process. The copy was produced by the archive.
- Access points: locations:
- Glückstadt
- Subject terms:
- Citizenship
- Migration
- Migration--Immigration
- Professions
- Sephardi Jews
- Vital records
- System of arrangement:
- The entries are arranged chronologically. An alphabetical index is available.
- 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
