Metadata: Department of justice/ducal court/high court Celle
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:
- Hann. 70
- Title:
- Department of justice/ducal court/high court Celle
- Title (official language):
- Justizkanzlei/Hofgericht/Obergericht Celle
- Creator/accumulator:
- Department of justice Celle; Ducal court of Celle; High court of Celle
- Date(s):
- 1246/1942
- Language:
- German
- Extent:
- 162 linear metres
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
- Of special interest within this collection are records relating to a lawsuit by a lawyer of the treasury against the mayor and council in Dannenberg regarding jurisdiction (punishment of two Jews); oath taking of Jews; dispensations granted to advocates of Jewish religion; case of the magistrate in Bleckede versus the Lüne administrative district for impairment of jurisdiction in matters of the Israelite Heinemann Benjamin in Bleckede versus Strohrmann in Gifkendorf because of a claim; lawsuit of the "protected Jew" ("Schutzjude") Seckel Wolff in Walsrode versus the Israelite congregation of Walsrode for use of the temple.
- Archival history:
- The collection Hann. 70 originates in main its parts from documents of the central authority of the principality of Lüneburg, the Celle "office" of the sixteenth century that developed into a department of justice in the seventeenth century.
- Access points: locations:
- Bleckede
- Celle
- Gifkendorf
- Walsrode
- Access points: persons/families:
- Benjamin, Heinemann
- Wolff, Seckel
- Subject terms:
- Jewish oath
- Legal matters
- Legal status of Jews
- Professions
- Professions--Lawyers
- 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
