Metadata: Family and estate archive of the Knigge family in Bredenbeck, Leveste and Pattensen: charters and documents
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:
- Dep. 20
- Title:
- Family and estate archive of the Knigge family in Bredenbeck, Leveste and Pattensen: charters and documents
- Title (official language):
- Guts- und Familienarchiv der Familie Knigge in Bredenbeck, Leveste und Pattensen: Urkunden und Akten
- Creator/accumulator:
- Knigge family
- Date(s):
- 1361/1967
- Language:
- German
- Extent:
- 30 linear metres
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
- The collection is an outstanding equity (corpus allodiale) of the Bredenbeck estate by the district administrator von Knigge as guardian. It contains, among others: bankruptcy of the Jews Gumpert and Isaac Beerens (Behrens) in Hannover; transfer of the estate Leveste by the land trust Franz Heinrich Freiherr (baron) von Knigge to his wife Charlotte Elisabeth Freifrau (baroness) von Knigge, née von Münchhausen, therein: correspondence from an unknown person with Lieutenant von Knigge in Potsdam because of his debts and dealings with the Jew Salomon in Hannover (1798); lawsuit of the advocate Vogel as mandatary of the estates of the Knigge family against heirs of the chamber agent Alexander David, accountant Philipson, in indefinite matters, in it: activity of the Jewish pioneer Abraham Brackel in Braunschweig.
- Archival history:
- In April 1900, August Baron of Knigge in Leveste offered the Hannover state archives the deposit of the original documents stored in Leveste and Bredenbeck, as well as other historical archival documents. A deposit agreement was signed on 9-12 July 1900. In the same month, documents and files arrived from both castles, mainly relating to loans, family and property management matters.
- Access points: locations:
- Braunschweig
- Hannover
- Access points: persons/families:
- Beerens, Gumpert
- Beerens, Isaac
- Behrens
- Brackel, Abraham
- David, Alexander
- Jüdel, Salomon
- Subject terms:
- Correspondence
- Financial matters
- Financial matters--Debt
- Financial records
- 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
