Administrative district of Polle

Collection

Holding institution (official language):: Niedersächsisches Landesarchiv - Standort Hannover

Scope and content:: The collection contains documents relating to general administrative matters, statistics, feudal matters, police, community, military matters, taxes, services and levies, domain and forestry matters, redemptions, church and school. Of special interest to Jewish history are: legal conditions of the Jews in accordance with the law of 30 September 1842 and the implementation of this law; birth, marriage and death records of the Jews (Israelites) of the administrative district of Polle; head of the Jews (Polle administrative district); teachers, servants of the Jews (Polle administrative district); Jewish synagogue, school and poor; Jewish school system (Polle administrative district); collection of contributions for the salary of the state rabbi and for the maintenance of the Jewish poor (Polle administrative district); combined synagogue association of Polle-Bodenwerder; synagogue order (Polle administrative district).

Administrative/biographical history:: Named after Polle castle, first mentioned in 1285, the administrative district, which has been documented since about 1400, came into possession of the Guelphs in 1408 as an inheritance from the property of the counts of Everstein. Since the Guelph inheritance treaty of 1495 between Heinrich the Elder, duke of Braunschweig-Lüneburg, and Erich the Elder, duke to Braunschweig-Lüneburg, the administrative district of Polle belonged to the principality of Calenberg. Surrounded by foreign territories from 1635-1866, it occupied a special position as an exclave, which meant that the administrative district did not undergo any change in its extent until its dissolution and unification with the district of Hameln in 1885. Of the municipalities of Brevörfde, Heinsen, Meiborssen, Pegestorf, Polle and Vahlbruch, which were united with the Hameln district, the village of Pegestorf was integrated together with the town of Bodenwerder to the Holzminden district in 1942.

Subject terms:: Aid and relief; Aid and relief--Philanthropy and charity; Education; Education--Teachers and professors; Jewish community; Legal matters; Poverty; Rabbis; Synagogues; Vital records; Vital records--Birth records; Vital records--Death records; Vital records--Marriage records

System of arrangement:: The collection is ordered according to a thematic index. Keyword search is possible via the database.

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