Metadata: Administrative district of Wennigsen
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 Wennigsen
- Title:
- Administrative district of Wennigsen
- Title (official language):
- Amt Wennigsen
- Creator/accumulator:
- Administrative district of Wennigsen
- Date(s):
- 1538/1899
- Language:
- German
- Extent:
- 36.6 linear metres
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
- The collection contains records dealing with general administrative issues, district budget, statistics, taxes, levies and services, sovereign, border, jurisdiction, military, domain, community, police, agriculture, estates and road construction matters, redemptions, church and school. Of special interest to Jewish history are: protection money of the Jews in the monastery district of Barsinghausen; domanial levy of the Jews; civil register of the church parish of Gehrden, including, among others: Jewish registers; civil register of the church parish of Leveste, among others, Jewish registers; Jewish synagogue and school of Gehrden; Jewish synagogue and school in Barsinghausen; new construction of a synagogue in Gehrden.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- The administrative district of Wennigsen was formed on 28 October 1817 by the "decree for the division of the previous administrative district of Calenberg into the two administrative districts of Calenberg and Wennigsen”. The administrative district of Calenberg retained the Hausvogtei [manorial bailiwick], the Rössinger bailiwick, the Adenser Gohe, the villages of Arnum and Lüdersen from the Pattenser Gohe as well as the cities of Pattensen and Eldagsen. The newly established administrative district of Wennigsen was given the Ronnenberg, Gehrdene, Bönnigsen and Goltern bailiwicks, as well as to the villages of Holtensen (near Bredenbeck), Evestorf and Argestorf, which were surrounded by the bailiwick of Bönnigsen. The villages of Barsinghausen and Altenhof (monastery district of Barsinghausen) were united with the administrative district of Wennigsen in 1849.
- Access points: locations:
- Barsinghausen
- Gehrden
- Leveste
- 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
