Metadata: Town Collection Dömitz
Collection
- Country:
- Germany
- Holding institution:
- District Archive Ludwigslust-Parchim, Ludwigslust branch
- Holding institution (official language):
- Kreisarchiv Ludwigslust-Parchim, Außenstelle Ludwigslust
- Postal address:
- Garnisonsstraße 1, 19388 Ludwigslust
- Phone number:
- +49 3871 7221044
- Reference number:
- 7
- Title:
- Town Collection Dömitz
- Title (official language):
- Stadtbestand Dömitz
- Creator/accumulator:
- Magistrate of Dömitz; Town Council of Dömitz
- Date(s):
- 1762/1956
- Language:
- German
- Extent:
- 33 folders
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
-
The collection of Dömitz comprises 33 files on the history of the Jewish congregation in Dömitz from the 19th to the middle of the 20th century. They cover the following subjects: 1) Jewish congregation 2) Jewish property; 3) granting of civil rights; 4) trade; 5) Jewish foundations for individuals in need; 6) files from the Nazi and post-war period. In detail:
1) Jewish congregation: No. 7/816 Israelitische Gemeinde Dömitz (Israelite Congregation Dömitz), Vol. 1 (1847-1883); congregation matters, community rules and contributions; draft community rules for the Jewish congregation of Dömitz; notification of regular school attendance (seal of the congregation) and children's religious education (1863; 5 boys, 4 girls); list of contributions to the congregation fund; memorandum concerning the provision of land for the Jewish congregation of 1883 (cemetery); No. 7/816 Jewish congregation of Dömitz, Vol. 1 (1847-83); No. 7/1217 Sale of the local synagogue (1849-1859); handwritten version of the conditions of sale (n.d.); newspaper advertisement of the sale of the synagogue (December 1849).
2) Jewish property: No. 7/286 (1926-1939) Jewish merchants receive building permits for an extension and a new building on the properties An der Bleiche and Torstraße in Dömitz; No. 7/495 Property at Bäckerstraße 35, owner was a Jewish merchant (1909; 1942); application for an extension to the residential building; estimate of the property at Bäckerstraße 25 (tax office Ludwigslust 1942). Files 7/49; 7/58; 7/66; 7/113; 7/145; 7/640, 7/1093; 7/1232; 7/1871; 7/1872; 7/1889; 7/1955; 7/1956 refer to property in Dömitz (especially 19th century), including Jewish property. Combined with construction and building police files, these files are recorded on an internal Excel spreadsheet; search functions can be used to find several Jewish owners.
3) Civil and Resident Rights: No. 7/139 Applications for admission to the city of Dömitz and granting of civil and residential rights (1864-1873) (Sigmund Blumenthal, 1866); Mendel Blumenthal; Willi Löwenthal (1871); Julius Löwenthal; Heinrich Wulf(f) from Groß Schmölen (1869); release certificate from the military for Wilhelm Löwenthal from Sternberg (1865); No. 7/1211 Admission of Jews as citizens of the city of Dömitz (1849-1867) (merchant Salomon Blumenthal (1849), merchant Moses Bentheim (from Neuruppin, 1849).
4) Trade: No. 7/695 Register of issued trade legitimations with the sections name, age, hair colour, stature and trade (191901933), names two Jewish merchants until January 1933; No. 7/819 Dömitz professional statistics, also statistics of Jewish inhabitants (1809-1875); official letters with request to count Jewish inhabitants (1810-1818; /1828-1830); No. 7/1243 Wandergewerbe (Traveling business) (1908-1951); i.a. issue of permits to Jewish applicants (1936); No. 7/1255 Exceptions to the issue of permit and trade identification cards to Jews (1938); No. 7/1483 Emigration (1924-1942); Circular on the control of emigrant associations (1934); Jewish emigrants via Italian ports to Australia (1938), Jewish emigrants to Palestine (1937); No. 7/1546 Schutzjuden (1762-1833), especially Grand Ducal mandates during the times of the fair (Jewish merchants) (1862-1796); letter from Zerohe [Zeroke] Berens from Rehna (1813) to the magistrate of Dömitz (regarding outstanding wages from the Salomon brothers); complaint to the municipal court of Dömitz (1821) about Moses Wolff (illicit trade in the countryside).
5) The city collections also contain six files on foundations of the Blumenthal families for the benefit of needy citizens of Dömitz. These are the Mendel Blumenthal Foundation (1895; 1902, 1937,1939 record numbers 7/1171, 1172 and 1173), the Sigmund Blumenthal Foundation (1913-1945, No. 7/1167) and the Otto Blumenthal Foundation (1919-1921, No. 7/1169), as well as a file on a Christmas donation of a descendant from England ("Christmas present for poor inhabitants of Dömitz") (1910-1914, No. 7/1174). The files contain transcripts of the contract; transcript of the will of Mendel Blumenthal; annual accounts of the income as well as the individual recipients; intended use including the care of the family graves. During the National Socialist era, the remaining assets of the foundation were transferred to National Socialist institutions (Winterhilfswerk; Nationalsozialistische Volkswohlfahrt; NSV-Heim); the existing savings accounts were dissolved and transferred to the city treasury.
6) 2 files with the record number 7/1262 vol. 1 and vol. 2 (1933-1943; 1944-1951) primarily for the sale of Jewish property (houses and plots of land); purchase contracts and transfers of ownership; confiscation of Jewish property for the benefit of the German Reich; deportation of a Jewish citizen; purchase applications from citizens of Dömitz for formerly Jewish plots of land; correspondence concerning the estate of a Jewish merchant; letter from the NSDAP Gauleitung Mecklenburg-Lübeck concerning the Jewish cemetery in Dömitz (land is property of the city; there is no land register sheet); communication to the Gauleitung that the Jewish congregation was declared dissolved in 1919; correspondence concerning the sale or purchase of the property; Administration or reassignment of a property formerly owned by Jews (Goethestr. 25) (1949-1950); old and new owners of properties in Dömitz and Heidhof (land reform; 1947); correspondence on the question of ownership of the Jewish cemetery and dealing with further burials (1944); restoration of the Jewish cemetery; Jewish regional congregation proposes sponsorship for the maintenance of the cemetery (Dömitzer Schule); complaints by Jewish citizens of Hamburg about the condition of the cemetery (1946).
- Administrative/biographical history:
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In 1952, three years after the founding of the GDR, the existing states of Brandenburg, Mecklenburg, Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt and Thuringia were dissolved in an administrative reform. The territory of the GDR was divided into 14 districts, East Berlin became the so-called 15th district. Until reunification, the districts formed the middle level of the state administration and took over the tasks of the state governments. Mecklenburg received three districts, Rostock, Schwerin and Neubrandenburg, each with ten or 14 rural districts and one to four urban districts. The rural and urban districts formed the further subdivision. The district reforms of 1994 and 2011 changed the layout of the districts twice and also partially changed the allocation of the individual municipalities to the district. With the establishment of the district in 1952, the order was also issued to set up district archives. They are the forerunners of the present district archives.
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- Access points: locations:
- Blumenthal
- Dömitz
- Güstrow
- Heidhof
- Ludwigslust
- Mecklenburg
- Rehna
- Access points: persons/families:
- Abraham, Aharon
- Bentheim, Moses
- Berens, Zerohe
- Herzfeld
- Löwenthal, Wilhelm
- Meyer, Heymann
- Meyer, Levin
- Rosenberg, Aaron Nathan
- Rosenstern, Isaac
- Salomon
- Süssmann
- Woffenstein
- Wolff, Moses
- Wulff
- Subject terms:
- Aid and relief
- Aid and relief--Philanthropy and charity
- Cemeteries
- Civil rights
- Education
- Education--Schools and universities
- Jewish community
- Land
- Legal status of Jews
- Mandatory Palestine
- Migration
- Migration--Emigration
- Nazism
- Plunder
- Real estate
- Statistics
- Synagogues
- Trade and commerce
- System of arrangement:
- Individual sheets, not always in chronological order.
- Finding aids:
- There is an in-house list (Word document) as well as the published finding aid “Findbuch für Judaica in den Kreis- und Stadtarchiven Westmecklenburgs”, published by Verein für jüdische Geschichte in Mecklenburg und Vorpommern e.V., edited by Norbert Francke, Schwerin 2001. A partial overview of the collections, especially after 1952, is available online.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Institute for the History of German Jews
- Author of the description:
- Christine Schatz, Hamburg