Metadata: Old Collection until 1900
Collection
- Country:
- Germany
- Holding institution:
- City Archive of Ribnitz-Damgarten
- Holding institution (official language):
- Stadtarchiv Ribnitz-Damgarten
- Postal address:
- Im Kloster 3, 18311 Ribnitz-Damgarten
- Phone number:
- +49 3821-812814
- Reference number:
- I
- Title:
- Old Collection until 1900
- Title (official language):
- Altbestand bis 1900
- Creator/accumulator:
- Magistrate of Ribnitz
- Date(s):
- 1763/1859
- Language:
- German
- Extent:
- 10 folders
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
-
The old holdings of the Ribnitz Magistrate until 1900 contain files on trade privileges in 10 folders; a citizen directory and register of inhabitants; disputes; correspondence with requests and permits. The following items are of particular interest for Jewish history:
I-190: Register of inhabitants November and December 1763 according to districts; includes Aron David, “Schutzjude”; Israel; Aron, a printer; Salomon David; Meyer and Wulff.
I-299 Granting of trade privilege to the Jew Benjamin Wolff in place of the deceased “Schutzjude” Moses Marcus (1800) with privilege for the Jew Benjamin Wolff; letter of Benjamin Wolff to the Grand Ducal Government (1800).
I-380: List of the inhabitants including taxes 1766, contains enumeration of the “Schutzjuden” Bernd Hirsch, Israel Abraham, Jacob Wulff, David Meyer, Lehmann Wulff, Salomon David, Nathan Bernd, Aron David.
I-417 The local Jewish congregation takes legal action against the Schutzjude Hirsch for refusing to surrender to the local Jewish congregation (1771), letter with information on payments made and financial circumstances.
I-510 Statistical data for the state calendar 1838/1859 with 13 Jewish families.
I-534 Request of the Herzoglich- Mecklenburgisches Amt Ribnitz zu Hirschburg to the city of Ribnitz to prohibit the door-to-door trade of Jews on Sundays (1778).
I-717 Involvement of the “Schutzjuden” in Municipal Taxes (1765/1780), contains copy of a letter from the Grand Duke to treat the “Schutzjuden” in Civil and Debt Matters in the same way as all other citizens; request from the City of Tessin as to whether Jews in Ribnitz are to be included in all taxes.
I-771 Dispute of the mill master Zabel with the “Judenbursche [Jewish boy] Salomon" with three letters between the parties, as well as minutes and a listing of the costs.
I-776 Certificate of the Mayor of Ribnitz that the “Schutzjude” Moses Marcus was "notoriously poor", a second letter with the certificate for the Jewish woman Catharina Maria in need and her underage children (1795).
I-720 Request of the “Schutzjude” Levin Samson to the Ribnitz Magistrate to collect for the heirs of the deceased rabbi Jeremias Israel from the Ribnitz Jews (1779). Details of the citizen books (3 volumes 1759/1919 dealing with contributions to the fire, school and poor funds) are available in printed form.
- Archival history:
- The holdings of the town of Ribnitz from the second third of the 18th century to the present day are well preserved. Until 1994 they were stored in the town hall and are now housed in the town archives. The historical archive of the town of Damgarten was almost completely destroyed by a fire in the town hall in 1928. The following archives were lost in the last months of the war in 1945, so that today almost exclusively documents created between 1945 and 1950 are available. In addition to collections about personalities from the city's history, associations and companies, the Ribnitz-Damgarten municipal archives also include cadastral maps, pictures and postcards, as well as directories of pupils from the Ribnitz and Damgarten schools. The building file collection of the Ribnitz city centre offers an insight into the city's architectural history.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- With the reform of civil status law, parts of the registers of births, marriages and deaths kept since 1874 and 1876 respectively were archived and thus accessible for use. The registers of the registry offices Ribnitz, Damgarten, Ribnitz-Damgarten, Tempel, Semlow, Daskow, Schlemmin and Ahrenshagen are stored in the archive. In the city minute books, land and house purchase by Jewish inhabitants are documented, they form an additional source.
- Access points: locations:
- Hirschburg
- Mecklenburg
- Ribnitz
- Schwerin
- Tessin
- System of arrangement:
- The tax registry is arranged by quarter years, the citizen book is sorted by city quarters. Individual sheets in the files are arranged in chronological order, partially by trial.
- Finding aids:
- An overview on index cards and digitally (using Augias) are available at the archive. Individual documents about the history of Jews in Ribnitz-Damgarten are available at the “Ribnitz-Damgarten, historisch” website.
- Links to finding aids:
- https://rdg-historisch.de
- Yerusha Network member:
- Institute for the History of German Jews
- Author of the description:
- Christine Schatz, Hamburg