Metadata: Foreign affairs
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. Or. 31
- Title:
- Foreign affairs
- Title (official language):
- Auswärtige Sachen
- Creator/accumulator:
- Registry of the Principality of Calenberg
- Date(s):
- 1013/1791
- Language:
- German
- Extent:
- 700 files
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
- Collection Cal Or 31 comprises the so-called 'foreign affairs' of the principality of Calenberg. These include documents that would now be called international treaties with foreign powers, as well as private charters regarding transactions in non-Guelph territories (real estate transactions, pledges, loans); contracts, alliances, pledges and sales concerning Brandenburg, Goslar, Hessen, the city of Hildesheim, Hohnstein, Homburg, Kaiser, Mainz, Minden, Lower Saxony (legislative record), Oldenburg, Plesse, Saxony, Saxony-Lauenburg, Schaumburg, Sweden, Spiegelberg and Stolberg. Of special interest are: disputes with cities; administrative districts; private individuals, including Jews.
- Access points: locations:
- Bodenwerder
- Duderstadt
- Erfurt
- Frankfurt
- Heiligenstadt
- Langensalza
- Rühle
- Subject terms:
- Financial matters
- Legal matters
- Real estate
- 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
