Metadata: Administrative district of Hameln
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. 74 Hameln
- Title:
- Administrative district of Hameln
- Title (official language):
- Amt Hameln
- Creator/accumulator:
- Administrative district of Hameln
- Date(s):
- 1405/1912
- Language:
- German
- Extent:
- 149.4 linear metres
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
- Of special interest within this collection are: grant and renewal of the protection of the Jews; renewal of the Jewish writs of protection; Jewish protection allowance; contribution of the Jews; domanial levies; news about trade and special trade concessions of the Jews; concession of the Jews for the trade in materials, hog trade and slaughtering; counting of Jewish inhabitants; last names adopted by the Jews (Israelites); regulations and announcements; negotiations concerning the Jews, in particular on trade and slaughter, expulsion, escort, reception, residence and taking of oath, on the acquisition of houses and land and loaning of money; foreign Jews and begging Jews; commerce of foreign Jews; Jewish burial places, burial of deceased Jews; synagogues; secessions; trade of peddlers; marriage of the Jew Hieronimus in Hastenbeck, "progress" of the latter and his family; removal and domicile of the Jew Heinemann in Reher; collection of rules and regulations on the domanial levies of the Jews; collection of rules and regulations on the property benefits and legal relations of the Jews; execution of the provision of the cabinet ministry on the duty of the Jews with permanent residence in the kingdom of Hannover for the adoption of a permanent family name, head and property tax of the Jews (Israelites); marriage dispensations for Jews; register of Jewish civil records; support for poor Jews by the synagogue association; election and appointment of the heads of the synagogue association of Grohnde; surplice fees of the Jews (Israelites) in Hämelschenburg paid to the local clergy; regulations on the commerce of the Jews, the hawking and shopkeeper trade, the gale survey; counting Jewish residents in the jurisdiction of the administrative district of Hameln; Jewish burial places, burial of deceased Jews; municipal bills; synagogue, school and poor; support for Jewish poor people from the state rabbinate, care of the Jewish "lunatics"; management of the Jewish birth, marriage and death lists; handling the cost of maintaining Jewish "lunatics" in general; the employment and remuneration of Jewish teachers; birth, marriage and death lists; synagogue matters.
- Archival history:
- The large scope of the collection corresponds to the complicated history of the administrative district of Hameln. The historically relevant file groups go back to the 16th century. The four preceding administrative districts resulted in intensive border, domanial and police records. Church, school and community records generally go back to the 18th century.
- Access points: locations:
- Aerzen
- Berlin
- Börry
- Grohnde
- Groß Hilligsfeld
- Hameln
- Hämelschenburg
- Hannover
- Hastenbeck
- Hemeringen
- Lachem
- Reher
- Reinerbeck
- Tündern
- Access points: persons/families:
- Cohen, Jacob
- Heinemann
- Hieronimus
- Isaac, Samuel
- Jonas, Alexander
- Liebmann, David
- Meyerberg
- Moses, Bonim
- Nauen, Dina
- Stahl, B
- Subject terms:
- Aid and relief
- Cemeteries
- Education
- Education--Schools and universities
- Expulsion
- Financial matters
- Financial matters--Moneylending
- Health and medical matters
- Health and medical matters--Mental health
- Jewish oath
- Land
- Legal matters
- Marriage and divorce
- Poverty
- Real estate
- Statistics
- Synagogues
- Trade and commerce
- Vital records
- Vital records--Birth records
- Vital records--Death records
- Vital records--Marriage records
- Welfare
- 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