Metadata: Principality of Grubenhagen: offices in Osterode/Harz and Herzberg
Collection
- Country:
- Germany
- Holding institution:
- State Archives of Lower Saxony – Hannover branch
- Holding institution (official language):
- Niedersächsisches Landesarchiv - Standort Hannover
- Postal address:
- Am Archiv 1, 30169 Hannover
- Phone number:
- + 49 511 1206601
- Reference number:
- Cal. Br. 34
- Title:
- Principality of Grubenhagen: offices in Osterode/Harz and Herzberg
- Title (official language):
- Fürstentum Grubenhagen: Kanzleien zu Osterode/Harz und Herzberg
- Creator/accumulator:
- Registry of the Principality of Calenberg
- Date(s):
- 1518/1705
- Language:
- German
- Extent:
- 3.9 linear metres
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
- The collection contains files of the Grubenhagen department of justice in Osterode and Herzberg. They include subjects such as general state affairs, judiciary, forestry, church and school matters, military and territorial matters. Of special interest are: complaints of the Jews in the principality of Grubenhagen to Emperor Maximilian ll about Duke Wolfgang and Duke Philip the Elder of Braunschweig-Lüneburg (Grubenhagen), who had forbidden them to trade within the principality, and the reaction of Emperor Maximilian ll advocating in favour of the Jews (1570); mandate against foreign Jews.
- Access points: locations:
- Grubenhagen
- Access points: persons/families:
- Maximilian II, Holy Roman Emperor, 1527-1576
- Philipp Braunschweig, Herzog 1533-1596
- Wolfgang Braunschweig-Grubenhagen, Herzog
- Subject terms:
- Antisemitism
- Legal matters
- Nobility
- Trade and commerce
- System of arrangement:
- The collection is ordered according to a thematic index. Keyword search is possible via the database.
- Finding aids:
- An online catalogue (Arcinsys) is available.
- Links to finding aids:
- https://www.arcinsys.niedersachsen.de/arcinsys/start.action?oldNodeid=
- Yerusha Network member:
- Institute for the History of German Jews
- Author of the description:
- Meike Buck
