Metadata: Affairs of Calenberg and Grubenhagen
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:
- Celle Br. 57
- Title:
- Affairs of Calenberg and Grubenhagen
- Title (official language):
- Calenbergische und Grubenhagensche Sachen
- Creator/accumulator:
- Registry of the Principality of Lüneburg
- Date(s):
- 1158/1706
- Language:
- German
- Extent:
- 4.2 linear metres
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
- The collection contains, among others: document transcripts, intercession letters, feudal matters, trial files. Of special interest are: Carsten Becker arrested for a number of debts with the Jew Levy or his father, the Jew Michel, 1556-1561; the file "Customs" contains: Letter from duke Erich (II) of Braunschweig-Lüneburg (Calenberg) for the passage for the Jew Levi in 1562; case of M. [? Magister] Bernhard Schwertfeger on behalf of his nurse Margarete von Wrampen, widow of Georg von Breitzke, against several resigned Jews (1634).
- 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