Metadata: Chancellery, privy council
Collection
- Country:
- Germany
- Holding institution:
- State Archives of Lower Saxony – Wolfenbüttel branch
- Holding institution (official language):
- Niedersächsisches Landesarchiv - Standort Wolfenbüttel
- Postal address:
- Forstweg 2, 38302 Wolfenbüttel
- Phone number:
- +49 5331 935 0
- Reference number:
- 2 Alt
- Title:
- Chancellery, privy council
- Title (official language):
- Kanzlei, Geheimer Rat
- Creator/accumulator:
- Chancellery of the Principality of Braunschweig
- Date(s):
- 1472/1839
- Language:
- German
- Extent:
- 326.4 linear metres
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
- This collection contains documents regarding the establishment of a synagogue in Braunschweig by Alexander David; official duties of the chamber agent Israel Jacobson; Schutzjuden (protected Jews) in Melverode; birth certificates, including those of Jews.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- According to the 1548 rules of the chancellery of Duke Heinrich the Younger, the chancellery "presents itself as the main office for the government affairs of the sovereign and as the highest instance in judicial matters for subjects." It continued to retain jurisdiction alongside the princely court, with particular emphasis from 1584 onwards.
- Access points: locations:
- Melverode
- Wolfenbüttel
- Access points: persons/families:
- David, Alexander
- Jacobson, Israel
- Subject terms:
- Legal status of Jews
- Synagogues
- Vital records
- Vital records--Birth records
- System of arrangement:
- There is no system of arrangement. The material is in order of accession.
- 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
