Metadata: Jewish Congregations and Ladewig Monastery
Collection
- Country:
- Germany
- Holding institution:
- Town Archive Malchow
- Holding institution (official language):
- Stadtarchiv Malchow
- Postal address:
- Alter Markt 1, 17213 Malchow
- Phone number:
- +49 39932 88134
- Web address:
- https://www.mfpev.de/archive-in-mecklenburg.html
- Email:
- archiv@inselstadt-malchow.de
- Reference number:
- J 2.1/J 2.22
- Title:
- Jewish Congregations and Ladewig Monastery
- Title (official language):
- Judengemeinden und Ladewigstift
- Creator/accumulator:
- Magistrate and Town Council of Malchow
- Date(s):
- 1739/1950
- Language:
- German
- Extent:
- 22 folders
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
-
Files J 2.1 to J 2.22 of the town archive of Malchow are files on the Jewish congregation (18th to 20th century), files on individual Jewish congregation members and the Ladewig Foundation. In detail:
J 2.1 "Die Förmlichkeiten bei Judeneiden" (1840) mainly contains letters on estates and various writings on customs;
J 2.2 "Die Judengemeinde zu Malchow" (1756-1941): Tax list (1919); letters of protection and privilege for Joachim Simon (1772), Elias Salomon (1756), Isaac Tobias (1755); correspondence between the mayor and the Grand Duke's Chancellery on the decree of 13 February 1812 (among others tax questions) (1816); letter from the “Israelitischer Oberrat” (Israelite Upper Council) in 1894 for payment to the Rabbinatskasse; letter from the congregation council to the magistrate concerning access to the Jewish cemetery in 1899 and changes to the congregation charges (1902); list of congregation members (1903); subsidy for the burial ground (1903); approval of subsidies for the Jewish congregation from the city treasury; Reminders for failing to pay contributions to the fund of the State congregation (1911); correspondence on the structural condition of the synagogue (1927) and questions on the land register classification of the property and the synagogue; decrees and regulations from 1933 (Jewish cemetery; economic activity; "Aryanisation"; financial circumstances; emigration; Jewish and Hebrew literature; schooling for Jewish children; list of "Mischlinge 1. u. 2. Grades").
J 2.3 Acquisition of urban properties of fellow Jews (1832-1867) by Abraham Jacobsen with Grand Duke's mandate to purchase a house; Jacobsen's letter with request for permission to purchase a house (1832); mandates for and letters to Aaron Mannheim and Moses Mannheim, among others; Amalie Valentin, born Mannheim (1858); A J Ladwig (1862); Jacob Löwenthal (1866);
J 2.4 “Aufenthalt ausländischer Juden in Malchow” (“Residence of foreign Jews in Malchow”) (1836-1870) regarding the employment of synagogue servants and religious teachers with appropriate qualifications and permission by the State Rabbi (Moritz Isaacsohn; Isaac Caro; Marcus Meyer; Gumpel Meyer J 2.);
J 2.5 "Gemeindeordnung der Judenschaft" (1846-1885) contains Grand Ducal mandates and letters about the status of “Schutzjuden” (1749ff.); general outlines of a Congregation regulation (undated); correspondence with a request for confirmation of the Congregation regulation; correction of individual paragraphs; handwritten Congregation regulation; acceptance of surnames (1813); list of Jewish residents (1848; 1858-1859); list of contributions (1882);
J 2.6 "Judengemeinde zu Malchow" (1941-1947) Private letter from London concerning the deportation of Jews from Malchow (1947), answer from the mayor that there was no forced deportation; no returnees; sale of the Jewish cemetery with mortuary to the city in 1944; synagogue sold in 1936; since 1947 maintenance of the cemetery;
J 2.7 Lists of Jewish believers (1816-1869), consecutive lists, submitted to the Grand Ducal Government;
J 2.8 Trade privileges (1849-1850), investigation against Elias Salomon, privileged in 1831, for exceeding his privileges; application for the construction of a factory for coarse wool goods is rejected in the interest of local wool trade (1855);
J 2.9 Application for the construction of a cloth factory and request for a Grand Ducal mandate (1845);
J. 2.10 The Ladewig Foundation (1901-1922); Foundation "zu Ehren des Andenkens seins Vaters, des Kaufmanns A. J. Ladewig" (in honour of the memory of his father, the merchant A. J. Ladewig); Correspondence; Disposal of the Foundation's annual interest to widows living in Malchow; Notarisation 1911; Documents on Foundation Capital; Receipts for War Bonds (undated); annual accounts and contributions; list of recipients (1914); statement of assets and investments (Mecklenburgische Spar-Bank);
J 2.11 Petition to the Reich Chancellor against the Jews (1880, print), against the “overgrowth of the Jewish element”;
J 2.12 office boy R.E. Jacobsen (1863-1864) Request for admission to the city to continue his father's business; request for permission to marry; release certificate from "Militair-Distict Güstrow" for Ruben Jacobson (1860); apprenticeship and employment certificate for Rudolph Jacobson in Röbel; declaration of majority for Ruben Elias Jacobson (1863); request for residence permit (1863); privilege to trade wool for R.E. Jacobson (1863); warning for exceeding permitted trade in local products and cloth manufacture in bulk, operation of a yarn spinning mill and trade in cigars;
J 2.13 file of Hirsch Meyer Levy (1855, 1858, 1861, 1862), application for concession to "trade with raw products" (1855), application for privilege as lottery collector (letter of Hirsch Meyer Levy to the magistrate of the city (1862);
J 2.14 file of Moses Israel Rubensohn (1827), contains privilege for merchant Moses Israel Rubensohn from Crivitz to trade from open invite, detailed petition Rubensohn;
J 2.15 trade permits for Malchow Jews (1739-1843) file contains privilege for Moses Jacobson (1843), mandate of 1804 with regulation of trade in medicines, which also applied to Jewish traders; patent ordinance (print 1809); Grand Ducal mandate of 1730-1734 on peddling in cities and countryside; Mandate for Michael Löwenthal (1832), David Levin, Trade with land products; mandate for Josef Mannheim (1829); privilege for trade with open shop also for Moses Joseph Mannheim (1830); Salomon Jacobs privilege for peddling trade with his son (1833);
J 2.16 file of the merchant Ruben Elias Jacobsen (1867-1899), copy of the investigation against the merchant Ruben Elias Jacobson related to “frivolous bankruptcy”, prison sentence (1867);
J 2.17 file of the merchant Isidor Jacobsohn (1889, 1910, 1924), contains list of punishments, various offences, including street police order (cleaning the street in front of his warehouse), trade order, penal code; wholesale and warehousing cooperative Berlin sues for outstanding contributions (1924);
J 2.18 file of Josias Kronheim, "Ausspielung seines Wohnhauses" (1834-1837), a lottery contract in which the profits consisted of the real value of the house;
J 2.20 Aron Mannheim from Malchow (1834-1836);
J 2.21, J 2.22 Correspondence with Jewish congregation and synagogue matters (1920-1939) and contributions of the city (1915).
- Archival history:
-
The archives also contain the registers of births, marriages and deaths from 1876 onwards and the main registers of the Malchow registry office: Malchow registry office register 1876-1926; marriage register 1876-1927; death register 1876-1904; birth register Alt Schwerin 1896-1903; marriage register Alt-Schwerin 1876-1927; death register Alt-Schwerin 1896-1955; the register of the surrounding municipalities of the Malchow office.
Until the year 2000, the city archive was housed in the town hall; since 2007, the archive was again looked after regularly (on a voluntary basis) and housed at its current location in its own rooms.
- Access points: persons/families:
- Alexander, Abraham
- Alexander, Daniel
- Caro, Isaac
- Cronheim
- Engel, O
- Freymann, Adolph
- Gerson, Abraham
- Göetzer, W
- Isaacsohn, Moritz
- Jacobsohn
- Jacobson
- Joseph, Moses
- Josephy
- Kronheim, Jacob
- Kronheim, Josias
- Kröpelin
- Ladewig, A J
- Levin, David
- Levin, Meyer
- Levy
- Levy, Hirsch Meyer
- Louis, Sophie [née Michaelis]
- Löwenthal
- Philippson, M
- Rubenson, Moses Israel
- Salomon, Richard
- Schlomann
- Schoenfeldt, Salomon
- Valentin, Amalie [née Mannheim]
- Subject terms:
- Cemeteries
- Correspondence
- Education
- Financial matters
- Holocaust
- Holocaust--Deportation
- Jewish community
- Jewish languages
- Jewish languages--Hebrew
- Legal matters
- Manufacturing
- Migration
- Migration--Emigration
- Plunder
- Plunder--Aryanisation
- Privileges
- Real estate
- Synagogues
- Trade and commerce
- Trade and commerce--Clothing and textile trade
- System of arrangement:
- The material is arranged in chronological order.
- Finding aids:
- A typed finding aid and in-house digital catalogue are available.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Institute for the History of German Jews
- Author of the description:
- Christine Schatz, Hamburg