Metadata: Monastic chamber of Hannover
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. 94
- Title:
- Monastic chamber of Hannover
- Title (official language):
- Klosterkammer Hannover
- Creator/accumulator:
- Monastic chamber of Hannover
- Date(s):
- 1545/1955
- Language:
- German
- Extent:
- 210.5 linear metres
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
-
The collection contains: generalia, invoice approval, registers, monastic estates management in Hildesheim, government commission, prebendary files, forestry, trials of the monastic chamber, surveying and description, matters of individual monasteries.
Of special interest are the following: records regarding the Jew Moses Israel Shah (plaintiff) against the monastery of Wülfinghausen (defendant) for debts; collection of Jewish protection funds in Wennigsen and Barsinghausen; disputes with the Calenberg administrative district because of the jurisdiction, including among others: the removal of the monastic seal from the inheritance of the Barsinghausen Jew Salomon Ruben and attachment of the official seal of the administrative district; the house belonging to the monastery office of Hildesheim, first to the Jewish family, then to the privy councillor Brandis; loan of a capital of 900 Reich thalers to the Jewish congregation of Groß Munzel; claim of the "protected Jew" ("Schutzjude") Moses Israel Schah [? Schay] for the amount of 1000 Reich thalers; obligation issued by Baroness Marshalk, née von Estorff in Hutloh in the Bremen area to the administration of Isaac Israel and transferred to the Ilfeld Monastery; transfer the secularised convent of Wöltingerode sold to consistory president Israel Jacobson; application of the Israelite merchant Wolf in Mehle for sale of the house in Mehle belonging to the Dominican monastery in Gronau.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- The monastery estates secularised in the sixteenth century in the course of the Reformation were not dissolved by the dukes to Braunschweig and Lüneburg, as it was the case in other territories, but were left as a separate collection of assets under the name of "general monastery fund”. Under state supervision, they were to serve the needs of the state in ecclesiastical, educational and charitable matters. The local administration was incumbent upon the monastery district officers, at the central level the monastic matters were dealt with in the privy council by the monastic secretaries or monastic councillors, separate from the cameral, consistorial and judicial matters. Since 1718, the designation of “monastic chamber” for the then emerging privy councillor department of the monastic matters began to appear in the files.
- Access points: locations:
- Barsinghausen
- Bremen
- Gronau
- Groß Munzel
- Mehle
- Wennigsen
- Wöltingerode
- Wülfinghausen
- Access points: persons/families:
- Israel, Isaac
- Jacobson, Israel
- Ruben, Salomon
- Schay, Moses Israel
- Wolf
- Subject terms:
- Financial matters
- Financial matters--Debt
- Legal matters
- Real estate
- 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