Metadata: Town Collection Bützow
Collection
- Country:
- Germany
- Holding institution:
- Historical Archive of the Town of Bützow
- Holding institution (official language):
- Historisches Archiv der Stadt Bützow
- Postal address:
- Krummes Haus, Stadtbibliothek, Heimatmuseum & Hist. Archiv Bützow, Schlossplatz 2, 18246 Bützow
- Phone number:
- +49 38461 4051
- Email:
- bibo-buetzow@t-online.de
- Title:
- Town Collection Bützow
- Title (official language):
- Stadtbestand Bützow
- Creator/accumulator:
- Magistrate of Bützow; Town Council of Bützow
- Date(s):
- 1754/1938
- Language:
- German
- Extent:
- 25 folders
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
-
The collections of the Historical Archive of the Town of Bützow are numbered with Roman numerals. Collections II to IV, VIII and XV contain a total of 25 individual files on the history of the Jewish inhabitants of Bützow. They deal with the admission of Jews, privileges, complaints by individual Jews, estate and pension matters as well as files on recruitment in 1848-1849 and contribution payments by Jewish residents in the Seven Years' War. In detail:
Collection II, 11 No. 655 Commercial Register (1864-1936), missing, possibly misfiled (possibly contains names of Jewish merchants);
Collection II, 12 No. 350/4 (178-1801) and No. 350/6 (1749-1766) “Freimeister” privileges for Salomon Israel (1801) as well as letters of protection for Joel Levin (1764), Isaac Philips (1749); Nathan Hersch (1763); Nathan Alexander and Isaac Aaron (1749); Aaron Isaac (1754), Isaac Levin (1761); Meyer Hersch (1772).
Collection III, 6 town records No. 416, 427, 428, 432, 436 (1680-1832) and Collection III,11 No. 696/699 Affidavit of the citizens registered in Bützow 1593-1919; the Bützow citizen lists of the 16th to 19th centuries are available in printed form.
Collection III, 4 No. 1045 Complaint against the merchant Salomon Simonis and the later owners of the warehouse (1855-1881) by the merchant B. L. Behrens, Sr., who complains that the grain carts damage the sidewalk and that the horses are standing close to the complainant's window (1855); correspondence and refutations (1855).
Collection III, 9 No. 1116: includes the manuscript "Juden in Bützow" by Joachim Steinmann; flyer; family tree of Chaim Schwaan (Chaim Josephy) and Marcus Friedländer; newspaper cuttings; copy of Jews’ family names (Silberstein).
Inventory IV contains 2 relevant file groups: the orphan court and guardianship court Bützow (IV, 2) and the files on the "Stadt-Verlaß-Buch" (IV, 3) with a total of six individual files on guardianship and mortgage matters. In detail:
IV, 2 No. 202 Orphanage Court Bützow, Curatel (1876-1932), contains file "Curatel des Samuel Israel” (1877/1879); declaration of Samuel Cohn about a pension bequeathed in his will and his debts to his brother living in England; appointment of a guardian;
IV, 2 No. 210 Orphan court and guardianship court Bützow (1872-1938) with will of the merchant (Kommerzienrat) Leopold Ahron and his estate; will of his widow Amalie, née Luis (1884); will l. Ahron with seal “Gebrüder Ahron” (unopened); death notice Leopold Ahron (died 1913; parents Abraham Ahron, Friederike, née Heilbutt); correspondence on the estate; testamentary certificate Amalie Ahron, née Luis 1914;
IV, 2 No. 707 excerpts of the mortgage book for the “Amtsfreiheit” Bützow (1786-1859); Lange Straße 19, 1827-1843, owned by merchant Hirsch and wife Sara, née Benjamin;
IV, 2 No. 746 Mortgages/Curatel (1840-1858); mortgages on the home of the timber merchant Salomon; also Abraham Ahron, merchant (1852); mortgage certificate debtor A. J. Löwenthal (1854); Elias and Henriette David, Wallstr. Estate (determination of assets; rights and obligations of the deceased), house passes to the wife of the merchant Levin Ladewig, née Ahrenfeld; house Lange Straße 37 passes to Bernhard Löwenthal; (1840) house at Gänsemarkt 41 passes to merchant Bernhard Löwenthal.
Collection IV, 3 No. 1112 copy of the registration lists; files to the "Stadt-Verlaß-Buch" 1802-1838, vol. II 1823/1838 contains a record of a testimony made before witnesses by Henriette Hirsch Meyer Behrend, née Israel, about a renunciation of the paternal house inherited from the father Levy Israel in his will (1837);
IV, 3 No. 1113 (1848-1853) Houses and properties, meadows, fields; the file contains individual folders with the records of the changes in ownership (purchase, sale, creditors) including Rosa Abraham and Joel Ahron; Ahronson; Hirsch Ahronson; Cohn and Levin Israel; Bernhard Löwenthal; Israel Löwenthal from Hamburg; Nathan Löwenthal; Isaac Engel; Witness Hirsch Hirschfeld; Letter of assignment concerning a house in "Gnoyen" (Gnoien), Sternberg, inherited 1837;
Collection VIII, 2 No. 481 (1813-1854) admission of the Jewish master plumber Ludwig Engel, application for admission by Isaac Engel to the guild of marksmen 1839.
Collection XV contains five relevant files on recruitment 1848-1849 and on contributions or repayment of payments made in the course of the Seven Years’ War (1758-1775). In detail:
XV, 1, No. 178 Recruitment files 1849-1849 with lists and correspondence, also files of Jewish men according to birth cohorts, a.o. Julius Stern; Isaac Israel (1827/1826); Samuel Moses (1828); Joseph Seelig (1849); also contains letters from the Jewish congregation's board of directors with communications on the registration of men fit for military service, e.g. 1850 Julius, son of A.W. Cohn; registration 1851 Eduard Levin Israel; Samuel Cohn Israel; Behrens; Nathan Berehnd.
XV, 3, No. 982 Payments for the Seven Years’ War (1758-1771), list of names includes “Schutzjude” Salemon; “Schutzjude”Natan; “Schutzjude”Aron Isack; “Schutzjuden”Lessi(e)n; “Schutzjude”Lessien; No. 983 with letter of the mayor, damage claims to the town, “Schutzjude”David Salomon; Nathan Hirsch; Jochim Gumperts; Philips; money paid by Jewish inhabitants in the course of the Prussian invasion; Isaac Philipsen Assignment File 1769; Heymann Gumperts Assignment File 1768; Nathan Hersch Assignment File 1769; “Schutzjude” David Salomon; Receipt to Isaac Aaron 1763; Receivables to the City 1769; No. 984 (1728/1766) file Ahron Isaac, action of the “Schutzjude” for additional contribution (1766); minutes of outstanding and payable monies (1764); No. 984a contains letter on the exemption of deduction monies; letter of Isaac Aaron to the ducal government concerning move to Güstrow and request for exemption from the payment of deduction monies.
Relevant holdings are also the address book for Bützow and all localities in the district of Bützow from 1902, 1908, 1912, 1914, 1925; citizens' books from Mecklenburg F 3 Bützow edited by S. Kröber and Dr. W. Schmidtbauer, Kitzingen, self-published 2000; the Bützower Zeitung of 1920, 1924, 1931, emigration lists 1845-1900 as well as recruitment lists. In the town hall there is an archive of building files, in the registry office the birth and death registers from 1867 exist in printed form.
- Archival history:
- The town records cover the years from 1580 to 1945, but but unfortunately fires in 1518, 1679 and 1716 destroyed most of the oldest files. From 1950 onwards, the archive was run on a voluntary basis and the historical holdings were processed and evaluated.
- Access points: locations:
- Bad Nauheim
- Bützow
- Dargun
- Gnoien
- Güstrow
- Mecklenburg
- Neukalen
- Ribnitz
- Schwerin
- Access points: persons/families:
- Aaron, Isaac
- Aaron, Nathan
- Abraham, Joseph
- Abraham, Rosa
- Ahren, Isaac
- Ahrenfeld
- Ahron, Abraham
- Ahron, Amalie [née Luis]
- Ahron, Friederike [née Heilbutt]
- Ahron, Joel
- Behrens, B L
- Berehnd, Nathan
- Cohn, Julius
- Cohn, Samuel
- David, Elias
- David, Henriette
- Engel, Isaac
- Gumperts, Jochim
- Heersch, Salomon Nathan
- Hirsch, Sara [née Benjamin]
- Hirschfeld, Hirsch
- Isack
- Israel, [Eduard] Levin
- Israel, Cohn
- Israel, Isaac
- Israel, Samuel
- Ladewig, Levin
- Leopold, David
- Lessin
- Loewenthal, A J
- Löwenthal, Bernhard
- Löwenthal, Isaac
- Löwenthal, Jacob
- Löwenthal, Nathan
- Philipsen, Isaac
- Salomon, David
- Seelig, Joseph
- Selig, Abraham
- Simonis, Salomon
- System of arrangement:
- Individual sheets in chronological order.
- Finding aids:
- An overview of the collection is available at the archive.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Institute for the History of German Jews
- Author of the description:
- Christine Schatz, Hamburg
