Metadata: Consistory
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:
- 14 Alt
- Title:
- Consistory
- Title (official language):
- Konsistorium
- Creator/accumulator:
- Consistory
- Date(s):
- 1544/1952
- Language:
- German
- Extent:
- 51 linear metres
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
- This collection contains the denial of marriage between the Jew Optikus Hirsch Amsel Wallich from Sondershausen and Dorothea Auguste Juliane (Julie) Duwe, as well as applications for approval of wedding celebrations with banquet and music between Christians and Jews.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- The consistory was established as part of the princely department of justice in 1569 in connection with the Reformation. Its area of responsibility was the religious court for marriage matters and disciplinary matters of clergy and teachers. Under the supervision and with cooperation of the sovereign, it was managed by deputy consistorial councillors. Relocated to Helmstedt from 1579 to 1589, the consistory, after its return to Wolfenbüttel, acquired the character of a public authority and was subordinate to the privy council until the new territorial order of 1832. From 1832 it was a public authority in questions pertaining to school matters; in all other areas it was a church authority under the supervision of the ministry of state.
- Access points: locations:
- Sondershausen
- Wolfenbüttel
- Access points: persons/families:
- Duwe, Dorothea Auguste Juliane
- Wallich, Hirsch Amsel
- 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
