Metadata: Territorial estates archive of the knights and the cities
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. 12
- Title:
- Territorial estates archive of the knights and the cities
- Title (official language):
- Landständisches Archiv der Ritterschaft und Städte
- Creator/accumulator:
- Prince-bishopric/principality of Hildesheim
- Date(s):
- 1472/1883
- Language:
- German
- Extent:
- 79.2 linear metres
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
- Of special interest within this collection are the following: case of the territorial estates against the Jew Samson Gumpel over assets; complaints, antisemitic complaint, tax matters, exemption from protection money, power of attorney; liquidation protocol of bankrupt's assets (with alphabetical register) in 1725 (including the debt claim of the Jew Isaak Chaim); complaints (gravamina politica) and resolutions, including: expulsion ("Exulcation") of Jews without protection, diminishing the jurisdiction of the court; punishment of the Jew Burchardt Cantor for suspicious silver trafficking; arrears of the state treasurer (Landrentmeister) Voß: his debtors include the Jew Löw Meyer; file and book directories: thematic index ("Akzise" to "Zoll," among others, "Juden"); head and servant tax (to avert Turkish threat); news of government efforts to proselytise and have Lutheran children raised Catholic: the Jew Bendix in Mehle and his conversion to Protestantism, 1769-1770; ecclesiastica (religious disputes), according to places (letters M-N), including complaints about two young Jews who want to convert to the Protestant faith, but this is prevented by the administrative district of Hunnesrück; for this reason, summons of the pastor to the district office in 1721; village taxes: report by the state treasurer (Landrentmeister) Hartwig Blume on refused tax description in Lühnde 1649; tax registers of the towns of Gleidingen, Heisede, Göhderingen, Hottelen, Össelse,Ingelen, Wieringen, Wehmingen, Lühnde, Wätzen, Ummelen, Groß Lobke, Bledeln, Bolzum, Nordstemmen, Mehlde, Heiersen, Mahlerten, Burgstemmen, Markoldendorf, Holtensen, Ohlendorf, Deitersen, Ahmelsen, Eilensen, Crimmensen and Ellensen (with information on land and livestock ownership, also craftsmen) in 1703 and 1713 (Nordstemmen, Markoldendorf, Ahmelsen and Ohlendorf have Jewish inhabitants); complaints about interference with the court jurisdiction: special case of Seckel Natan (Jewish resident) against Lilius.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- The knights and cities formed the third and fourth estate of the prince-bishopric of Hildesheim. The knights include the owners of the manors; the cities include Alfeld, Peine, Bockenem, Elze, Gronau, Sarstedt and Dassel, but not the city of Hildesheim.
- Access points: locations:
- Gleidingen
- Hunnesrück
- Markoldendorf
- Mehle
- Nordstemmen
- Ohlendorf
- Poppenburg
- Ruthe
- Winzenburg
- Access points: persons/families:
- Bendix
- Brandis
- Cantor, Burchardt
- Cohn
- Gumpel, Samson
- Isaak, David
- Meyer, Löw
- Meyr, Abraham
- Natan, Seckel
- 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
