Ritter
Item
Country
DE
Name of institution (English)
Lower Saxony State Archive – Aurich branch
Name of institution (official language of the state)
Language of name of institution
deu
Contact information: postal address
NLA Aurich, Oldersumer Str. 50, 26603 Aurich
Contact information: phone number
0049 4941176660
Contact information: web address
Contact information: email
aurich@nla.niedersachsen.de
Reference number
Dep. 87
Type of reference number
Archival reference number
Title (English)
Ritter
Title (official language of the state)
Ritter
Language of title
deu
Creator / accumulator
Ritter
Date(s)
1222/1938
Language(s)
deu
Type of material
Textual Material
Physical condition
Good
Scope and content
This collection contains, among others, manuscripts of Conrad Borchling, including a request of 1598 by the Jews of Prague for three Jews arrested in Emden, 1918-19 (no. 192); Jacob Zwart from Delfzyl about Portuguese (Sephardic) Jews in Emden (1603-1901), 1917-25 (no. 289).
Archival history
The archive was first mentioned by the East Frisian government in Aurich in the year 1601. The archive became an independent authority with its establishment as the Royal Prussian State Archive Aurich on 9 April 1872. Initially, it had its location in two rooms of the Supreme Court of Aurich in the castle, until it was moved to its own purpose-built archive in 1890. In 1963, the State Archive moved into a new archive building, which underwent an expansion of its storage space in 1985 and again through a renovation of the attic in 2000. With the founding of the state of Lower Saxony in 1946, the state archive was named “Lower Saxony State Archive in Aurich“ ("Niedersächsisches Staatsarchiv in Aurich"). Since the merger of all Lower Saxony state archives in 2005, Aurich is one of seven locations of the Lower Saxony State Archives and is called "Lower Saxony State Archives - State Archive Aurich" (“Niedersächsisches Landesarchiv – Staatsarchiv Aurich“). Since 2014 it has the name "Lower Saxony State Archives (Aurich Branch)" (“Niedersächsisches Landesarchiv (Standort Aurich)“). The collection comprises 5.7 kilometres of shelves of archival material about the East Frisian regional and local history of the last 700 years. These include about 1,300 certificates (“Urkunden”), the oldest of which date from 1284, more than 11,000 maps and plans and 2,000 photos. The service library holds over 30,000 volumes.
Administrative / Biographical history
The Aurich branch of the Lower Saxony State Archive is responsible for all state authorities and courts and their (legal) predecessors with regional responsibility in the historical territory of East Frisia. The territory, which rose to become an Imperial County within the Holy Roman Empire in 1464, fell to Prussia in 1744 after the extinction of its governing dynasty. After the Battle of Jena and Auerstedt (1806) and the Peace of Tilsit (1807), East Frisia first became a part of France. In March 1808, it was then ceded to the Kingdom of Holland which was under the reign of Napoleon's brother Louis Bonaparte. In 1810, East Frisia became the “Departement Ems-Oriental“ (East-Ems) within the French Empire. The western part (Rheiderland) was separated from East Frisia due to old Dutch claims and became part of the Dutch “Departement Ems-Occidental" with the capital Groningen. After the defeat of Napoleon and the collapse of his rule, the Prussians again entered the territory in the years 1813-1815. In 1815, East Frisia became part of the Kingdom of Hanover and, in 1866, returned to Prussia together with the Kingdom which was annexed by Prussia. This area, which corresponded to the Administrative District of Aurich until 1978, is today defined by the City of Emden and the Rural Districts of Aurich, Leer and Wittmund. Since November 1, 1946, these areas belong to the German state of Lower Saxony.
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System of arrangement
The material is arranged in thematic order.
Finding aids
An online finding aid (Arcinsys) is available. There is also a printed finding aid about the material regarding Jewish history up to 1945 in the Aurich State Archive: “Quellen zur Geschichte und Kultur des Judentums im westlichen Niedersachsen vom 16. Jahrhundert bis 1945" (Göttingen 2001, vol. 1: Ostfriesland; partially with old reference numbers).
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