Metadata: City of Braunschweig
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:
- 4 Alt 5
- Title:
- City of Braunschweig
- Title (official language):
- Stadt Braunschweig
- Creator/accumulator:
- Chamber of the Principality of Braunschweig
- Date(s):
- 1402/1910
- Language:
- German
- Extent:
- 38.7 linear metres
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
- The collection contains records relating to coinage; police; guild; property and economic matters; pasture; gardens; legal matters; protection money; societies, arts and sciences; foundations; medical and military matters. Of special interest are privilege grants for traders, including Jewish traders.
- Archival history:
- In 1864, in the course of a settlement between the ducal ministry of state and the city of Braunschweig with the participation of chamber registrar Knolle, the Braunschweig city archivist Ludwig Hänselmann and the Wolfenbüttel archivist Wilhelm Ehlers divided the holdings of the city registry between the city archives of Braunschweig and the provincial capital archives in Wolfenbüttel.
- Access points: locations:
- Braunschweig
- 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
