Metadata: Files of the city administration - old files
Collection
- Country:
- Germany
- Holding institution:
- Municipal Archive of Lüneburg
- Holding institution (official language):
- Stadtarchiv Lüneburg
- Postal address:
- Wallstraße 4, 21335 Lüneburg
- Phone number:
- 0049 4131 309-3719
- Reference number:
- AA
- Title:
- Files of the city administration - old files
- Title (official language):
- Akten der Stadtverwaltung - Alte Akten
- Creator/accumulator:
- City of Lüneburg
- Date(s):
- 1300/1899
- Date note:
- 14th to 19th century
- Language:
- German
- Extent:
- 24,000 files
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
- The collection consists of documents about trials against "protected Jews" (Schutzjuden); Jewish matters in the Bürgervorsteher-Kollegium [college of chairs of the municipal assemblies); documents about personal circumstances of individual Jews; applications by "protected Jews" (Schutzjuden) for permission to marry; the surplice fee (jura stolae) to be paid by the local Jews; material about factories run by Jews in the town; documents concerning the Jewish burial ground; applications for protection in the town filed by foreign Jews; material about the local Jews, their commercial, civil and legal circumstances, oaths, etc., the swearing in of the Jews admitted as citizens.
- Access points: locations:
- Lüneburg
- System of arrangement:
- The records are arranged in alphabetical order.
- Finding aids:
- A database is available.
- Links to finding aids:
- https://www.stadtarchiv-lueneburg.findbuch.net/php/main.php?ar_id=3730
- Yerusha Network member:
- Institute for the History of German Jews
- Author of the description:
- Meike Buck
