Metadata: Government of Hildesheim (chancellery): civil files
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. 7
- Title:
- Government of Hildesheim (chancellery): civil files
- Title (official language):
- Hildesheimische Regierung (Kanzlei): Zivilakten
- Creator/accumulator:
- Prince-bishopric/principality of Hildesheim
- Date(s):
- 1513/1856
- Language:
- German
- Extent:
- 49.5 linear metres
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
- The collection consists of civil litigation files of the government or chancellery in Hildesheim. Of special interest are the following: Jewish residents of the city of Hildesheim against the city of Peine regarding payment of the contribution for the grant of the general writ of protection, including, among others: directories of the Jews in the prince-bishopric, 1764, 1786; the Jews on the dam outside Peine against the territorial estates of the prince-bishopric of Hildesheim because of protection money; the shopkeepers of the administrative district of Ruthe against the trading Jews of the administrative district for hawking and peddling; the butchers of the city of Sarstedt against the Jews in Sarstedt because of their effect on their income, including, among others: list of names of Jewish butchers and cattle traders of the Hildesheim abbey of 1724; the hat makers from Alfeld, Bockenem, Elze, Hildesheim and Peine against the Jew Veibell in Hildesheim for selling hats at the fair in Gronau; council and citizenship of the hamlet (Flecken) of Lamspringe against the Lamspringe monastery because of the sale of meat by the Jews; the Capuchins in the town of Peine against the Jewish congregation on the dam outside Peine because of a levy of money for Jewish daughters marrying outside the state; dean and chapter of St. Moritz outside of Hildesheim and the Jews living there against the Jews of the city of Hildesheim for unjustified levies; the Jewish residents of the city of Hildesheim ask for the surrender of an ornament for the synagogue, which the bankrupt chamber agent Oppenheimer bequeathed to the synagogue, but wished to keep in his house during his lifetime.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- The (judicial) chancellery, constituting the government from the nineteenth century, was established in Hildesheim after 1545. It was the supreme state judicial college in the principality of Hildesheim in civil matters and criminal matters involving torture and was also responsible, with restrictions, for state sovereignty, state police, other criminal matters and also for feudal matters. It was the higher authority to the lower judicial authorities in the administrative districts, cities and patrimonial courts. For the judgments of these courts, the chancellery was an appellation body. It constitutes the first instance, on the other hand, for the state’s civil servants, endowments and monasteries, as well as the noble and judicially competent estates. Appeals from this circle of plaintiffs and defendants went either to the Imperial Chamber Court in Wetzlar or to the Court Council of the Empire in Vienna.
- Access points: persons/families:
- Oppenheimer
- Schay, Israel Nathan
- Schay, Moses Israel
- Veibell
- 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