Metadata: Administrative district of Lüchow
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 Lüchow
- Title:
- Administrative district of Lüchow
- Title (official language):
- Amt Lüchow
- Creator/accumulator:
- Administrative district of Lüchow
- Date(s):
- 1298/1935
- Language:
- German
- Extent:
- 85.5 linear metres
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
- The collection includes records relating to, among others: jurisdictions; statistics; taxes; levies and services; military matters; domain matters; municipal matters; commercial matters; police; water and land construction equipment; church and school. Of special interest to Jewish history are: conditions of protection for the Jews (Israelites) and the domanial differences to be paid by them; adoption of permanent last names by the Jews (Israelites); obligations of Catholics and Jews (Israelites) to pay school fees; surplice fee (Jura stolae) of the Jews; admission of external kosher butchers, teachers and "Jewish servants" ("Judenknechte"), as well as the residence of non-protected Jews; general and various matters of the Jews; Jewish synagogue, school and poor; Jewish synagogue, school and poor system and its improvement; renting a new burial ground for the Jewish congregation in Bergen/Dumme; election of a state rabbi.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- The estate of the counts of Lüchow, the core of the later demesne of Lüchow, was acquired by duke Otto of Lüneburg in 1320 and thus came under Guelph rule. The castle was the seat of a bailiwick (first mentioned in 1371) and later of an administrative district, which was enlarged in 1548 by unification with the administrative district of Warpke. It was divided into the Hausvogtei [manorial bailiwick] (around Lüchow), the Grenzvogtei [border bailiwick] (around Lübbow), the bailiwick of Bergen (around Bergen/Dumme and Warpke) and the Reisevogtei [travel bailiwick] (around Lemgow). Included in the administrative district was the patrimonial court of Platenwerder or Grabow (owned by the von Plato family), which was not restored after the French occupation (1810-1813). The city of Lüchow was the seat of the department of justice, which is indirectly subordinated to the government in Celle and Hannover.
- Access points: locations:
- Bergen
- 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