The collection comprises the documents (files and official books) from the city of Lemgo before the formation of the administrative district of Lemgo in 1932 and the encirclement of Lemgo in 1934. Until then, Lemgo was a free city, i.e. it was directly subordinated to the sovereign government without an intermediate instance. In the Late Middle Ages, the constitution of the city of Lemgo was laid down in three documents, which subsequently documented the traditional constitutional reality: the so-called "Kerbschnittbrief" (mid 14th century, U 86), the so-called Regimentsnottel I (mid 15th century, U 763) and the Regimentsnottel II (1491, U 764). The political bodies were therefore organised in so-called four heaps. The New or Jury Council (12 members), the Old or Resting Council (12 members), the Meinheit (24 members) and the Dechen of the nine "councilable" offices (= guilds, guilds). Each of the two councils consisted of six councillors (without functional assignment), two chamberlains, an assessor, a council sealant and two mayors. The Old and New Councils alternated annually in the context of the Council change on 6 January. New members were selected on the basis of the co-optation principle, i.e. the "outgoing" Council elected the "dormant" Council again. Only when a councillor retired (due to death or other reasons) was a new councillor elected. Meinheit and Dechen had a say in this; they could reject a candidate. The members of the Meinheit were composed of the elected representatives of the six Lemgo building communities according to the principle of residence. In addition, there were six farmer masters who carried out police duties in the city quarters and six red masters, i.e. the former farmer masters who carried out the tax assessment in the residential districts. The two councils were responsible for the day-to-day political and legal business of the city. The other two piles represented the municipal community and were supposed to exercise a limited control function over the council bodies. In 1843, a uniform legal basis was created for the first time with the Lippe city order and the four-heap constitution in Lemgo, which had been valid until then, was abolished. The municipal bodies were now the magistrate and the city council. The magistrate headed the municipal administration and consisted of the mayor and other members of the magistrate. The city councillors were elected by the entire citizenry, i.e. those who also possessed citizenship. The City Council elected the Magistrate and exercised a control and oversight function over the Magistrate (with the exception of police matters). With the city order, a separation between administration and justice took place for the first time. The municipal jurisdiction was finally abolished only with the formation of the district courts in 1879. With the Lippe city order of 1886, the acquisition of citizenship was solved from house and land ownership, exercise of a trade and secure income. Every man who had lived in the city for more than two years and paid taxes was now a citizen. The election was conducted in accordance with the three-class system. The City Council and the Magistrate had to make their decisions separately in matters of self-government. In matters of statutes and budget, the magistrate could not decide without the city council. The provisional municipal constitution of 1919 granted the right to vote to women and men over the age of 20 who had lived in the municipality for more than three months. This was the first time that a universal and equal right to vote had been created at municipal level. In 1928 the separation between official municipalities and city municipalities was abolished (see also H-existing stocks). The magistrate or city council now needed the confidence of the city council. Stock A originally also included the documents after 1932/34, which were only later renumbered stock B. The documents were then transferred to stock A. The documents were then stored in the museum. The town archivist August Schacht ordered the files for the first time. He concentrated mainly on the trial records of the various Lemgo dishes. There was no separation by provenance here. In short: all files, which originated before 1932/34 in Lemgo, form the stock A. The classification is oriented after subject matter (pertinence principle), whereby the current classification represents a revision of the original classification. The current classification attempts to make the original provenances and contexts of origin more visible again. Nevertheless, many court acts are no longer filed under the respective court instance, but can be found under other classification points (e.g. under guild matters) according to the subject matter of the dispute or the parties to the dispute. This also applies to other classification points or archive materials. In the case of files from the A inventory which do not expire until after 1934, they are assigned to the B inventory (see there). In the opposite case, files with B signatures are included in the A inventory if their terms expire before 1934. The respective signatures are always retained. The court files of the two councils or the magistrate and the other court instances are summarized in the holdings 01.02.01 - 01.02.11 and 01.03.01 to 01.03.05. The witch trials can also be found there. The so-called Audience Protocols of inventory A 01.01.01 also contain court hearings, primarily in civil law. Court files of the Lemgo City Court (= magistrate of justice, as successor to the sovereign judge) are also found in the L 88 Lemgo holdings in the NRW State Archive, Detmold, OWL Department. The tradition of the schools (Gymnasium, Bürgerschule, Lyzeum, Technikum, Fortbildungsschule...) is also in the inventory A 01.01.01, independent of the formation of the independent school communities independent of the political communities 1849 (until 1937). This is mainly the tradition of the school boards, which were mostly composed of the local pastors and the mayor. Supplementary material can also be found in the T (school) holdings. The records of the Lemgo registry office (established throughout the Reich in 1876) in the form of birth, marriage and death certificates can be found in the holdings F 1 to F 3. In addition to the A holdings, personal documents / personal data can also be found in the holdings J - personal files. The old archive signatures (such as Gw 1, Gy 1, Ki 1...) have been retained and are searchable, so that a concordance is given when sources from literature are cited.
Contains: Dechen des Krameramtes gegen Kaufmann [Friedrich] Eldagsen am 9.2.1854 (copy of the document, transcript by Hermann Hentschel); Lippische Post, 26.02.1910, 63rd jg, no. 48, report about general assembly of the Verschönerungsverein (copy), photo (b/w) of the colonial and land trade business of Friedrich Eldagsen (1821 - 1892) in the Haferstr. 25 (copy), photo (b/w) Friedrich Eldagsen (copy), photo (copy) Friedrich Eldagsen (copy).
Contains: Varia und Generalia die Verteuerung der Kolonial- und flüssigen Waren betr., Month June-December 1811; Abolition of the consumption tax introduced in the Kingdom of Westphalia betr. 1811; Investigation matter Kaufmann Stockmeier betr. 1811
Contains: Varia und Generalie die Steuersteuer der Kolonial- und flüssigen Waren betr. 1813-1814, intus: Letter from the Prefecture of the Linen Department in Göttingen concerning the defeat of tax-free goods, shipment via Hameln, Vlotho, Rinteln and Polle; files concerning Friedrich Arnold Schlüter in Gütersloh vs. Fuhrmann Knickmeyer in Hameln concerning the defeat of tax-free goods in the Linen Department in Göttingen. neglected freight; report of the judge Helwing concerning percent money from 16.01.1813; Circulare concerning the goods to be obtained from Bremen on the Weser, February 1813; list of the taxed Waen 1813; excise tax of the wines going abroad and introduction of certificates of origin concerning the wines of the German Republic, February 1813; report of the judge Helwing concerning the percentage money from 16.01.1813; report of the judge Helwing concerning the percentage money from the goods to be obtained from Bremen on the Weser, February 1813; list of the taxed Waen 1813; excise tax of the wines going abroad and introduction of certificates of origin concerning the wines of the German Republic, February 1813. 1813; certificates for the coffee received since that year, May 1813; Circulare concerning edict not applicable to Lippstadt, Lipperode and Cappel because of the tax on the production of spirits 1813; investigation of excise tax defraudations concerning the production of spirits in Lippstadt, Lipperode and Cappel 1813; investigation of the tax on the production of spirits in Lippstadt, Lipperode and Cappel 1813; investigation of the tax on the production of spirits in Lippstadt, Lipperode and Cappel 1813; investigation of the tax on the production of spirits in Lippstadt, Lipperode and Cappel. 1813; files in matters against Kaufmann Hülsemann in Schötmar because of circumvention of the defeat 1813; excise note of the royal Westphalian consumption tax office et al. 1813; pharmacist Wesselmann, introduction of cocoa concerning (Wage) 1813
Contains: Varia and Generalia the taxation of colonial and liquid goods concerning 1812
Contains: Varia and Generalia the taxation of the colonial and liquid goods, thereby defeat (venture), trade with coffee and transport over Erder etc., month March-May 1811
1899, Stadtarchiv Lemgo, 08 NL 18 Veröffentlichungen [S 1] 08 Süvern
- 1891 - 1950, Stadtarchiv Lemgo, 08 NL 18 Texte und Dokumente [S 1] 08 Süvernn* Including: photos of the family and the German Baptist recreation home in Neuruppin.<br /><br />Contains: 'Life sketch' of E. R. Süvern; letters, 1891 - 1930; letters from Wilhelm Süvern to Emil R. Süvern, 1926 - 1929; obituaries of E. R. Süvern, 1931; letters from Pauline Süvern, née Daniel (1867 - 1897); photographs of E. R. Süvern and his family; letters 1910 - 1950, manuscript 'Mein Lebensweg', obituary dated 21 October 1950 of Emma Süvern, née Bachmann (wife of Emil R. Süvern, 1880 - 1950).
The picture archive of the two Lemgo master photographers Fritz Ernst Ohle (1881 - 1962) and Karl Ernst Ohle (1917 - 1982) was transferred to the city archive as a deposit (reservation of title) of the association Alt Lemgo e. V. in 2013. The picture archive was sold in 1989 to the Lemgo entrepreneur Gerhard Mische, who donated the photo collection to the Alt Lemgo association in 2002. The stock consists of glass plate negatives, b/w photo prints on cardboard, photo albums (b/w), negatives (b/w and color), slides (b/w and color) as well as loose or framed photo prints (b/w and color). In the archive database, the glass plate negatives and some of the photo prints on cardboard have been indexed so far. When the picture archive was handed over, digital photos of the glass plate negatives and some of the photo prints were also delivered on cardboard, which are stored as thumbnails in the archive database and can be viewed in the reading room of the city archive via the archive database. For the remaining photo material there are partly handwritten lists, which were made by Mr. Hartmut Walter of the association Alt Lemgo. The rest is not further developed and has only partial inscriptions. The old finding aids for the glass plate negatives and the photo prints on cardboard are available for inspection in the reading room of the City Archive. Your details have been included in the archive database. In addition, B/W printouts of the digital copies can be viewed in the reading room according to the sequence of signatures. The order signatures of the stock consist of an abbreviation and a sequential number. The abbreviations shall be broken down as follows: FAK = Photo prints on cardboard GPK = Glass plates GPG = Glass plates Contents mainly photographs of houses, streets, people and events in Lemgo from the end of the 19th century to the 1960s. In the case of publications of photos from the stock, the following shall be cited: StaL N 9 Depositum Ohle (Association Alt Lemgo/Mischen) signature. Some of the glass plate negatives from the picture collection have been owned by the Westfälisches Amt für Denkmalpflege since 1979. Prints of these negatives can be found in the photo collection N 1 of the city archive.