Metadata: Demesne of Varel-Kniphausen
Collection
- Country:
- Germany
- Holding institution:
- State Archives of Lower Saxony – Oldenburg branch
- Holding institution (official language):
- Niedersächsisches Landesarchiv - Standort Oldenburg
- Postal address:
- Damm 43, 26135 Oldenburg
- Phone number:
- +49 441 9244 100
- Reference number:
- Best. 120
- Title:
- Demesne of Varel-Kniphausen
- Title (official language):
- Herrschaft Varel-Kniphausen
- Creator/accumulator:
- Demesne of Varel-Kniphausen
- Date(s):
- 1495/1903
- Language:
- German
- Extent:
- 185.7 linear metres
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
- This collection contains files concerning security measures taken against thieves, beggars, vagabonds, Jews, “Gypsies” and "useless rabble" in the demesne of Varel; payment of protection money and efforts to reduce the amount of protection paid by the Jews; complaints of various Jews, protection money paid by the Jews in the demesne of Kniphausen; annual inventories of the Jews established in the administrative district of Varel and their servants and slaves dating from 1814-1847; protection granted for various Jews.
- Archival history:
- Collection 120 is a mixture of remnants of the registry from the demesnes of Kniphausen and Varel as well as the administrative districts of Neuenburg, Bockhorn and Rastede.
- Subject terms:
- Crime
- Law enforcement
- Law enforcement--Police
- Poverty
- Vital 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
