Metadata: Governmental archive of the prince-bishops of Hildesheim
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:
- Hild. Br. 1
- Title:
- Governmental archive of the prince-bishops of Hildesheim
- Title (official language):
- Regierungsarchiv der Fürstbischöfe zu Hildesheim
- Creator/accumulator:
- Prince-bishops of Hildesheim
- Date(s):
- 1475/1887
- Language:
- German
- Extent:
- 321.6 linear metres
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
-
The collection contains records relating to: relationship of the prince-bishopric (Hochstift) of Hildesheim to the Reich, prince-bishops; government and the judicial constitution; feudal estates and domains; territorial estates and Landtage; taxes, contributions and debts; state sovereign regalia; trade, crafts and commerce; police matters; poor-relief and medical institutions; brewing and liquor licenses; hunting, fishing and milling matters; military affairs, church and school matters.
Of special interest to Jewish history are: minutes, litigation, cabinet matters; Jews' contributions; meadow and pasture rights; arrests, police matters; note of protest; excise of foreign brandy and wine; trade dues; government review of officials; orders to Jews for supplying the silver to the princely mints; Jewish protection matters; protection of the Jews; purchase contracts, inheritances and other files of voluntary jurisdiction; petitions; Jewish orders; jurisdictional compulsion for the Jews; marriages; Jewish directories; Jewish escort; support obligations; feudal services; fraud; expulsion of “unprotected” Jews; brewing matters; Hildesheim trials at the Imperial Chamber Court in Wetzlar according to the Hofmann finding aid; punishing Jewish delinquents; election of superintendent; state-wide Jewish order; the expulsion of the Jews from the city of Hildesheim; criminal acts; Jewish dues from the administrative districts of Winzenburg, Steinbrück, Schladen, Wiedelah, Vienenburg, Liebenburg, Wohldenberg, Bilderlah, and the monasteries, cities, noble courts in them; complaint from the Jewish congregation leaders about the customs duties demanded at the Braunschweig fair, including, among others: customs registers for the customs dues of Marienburg; reformation; process files; cemetery in Peine and surplice fees; Jewish synagogue and school building.
- Archival history:
- The Hildesheim State Archives (Hildesheim correspondence archive Hild. Br. 1) is the most valuable source regarding the history of the prince-bishopric of Hildesheim, secularised in 1802. The files arose essentially out of the activity of the most important central authority, the prince-bishop's government that included virtually all branches of the state administration.
- Access points: persons/families:
- Burchard, Meier
- Chaim, Salomon
- David, Bendix
- Ephraim
- Fronhausen, Simon
- Goldschmidt, Moises
- Heinemann
- Isaak, Josef
- Jacob, Joseph
- Jakob, Philipp
- Kalmen, Salomon
- Leve, Benjamin
- Levi, Abraham Moses
- Levin
- Moyses, Haim
- Moyses, Nathan
- Nathan, Jakob
- Nathan, Moses
- Nathan, Seckel
- Nathanssohn, Seckel
- Olicke, Salomon von
- Samuel, Abraham
- Samuel, Heinemann
- Sander, Meyer
- Wertheimer, Samuel
- 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
