Find aids: Find book from 1951 (online searchable) Registraturbilddner: Deersheim belongs to the city of Osterwieck, Lkr. Harz, Saxony-Anhalt. In the late Middle Ages, Deersheim belonged to the Halberstadt monastery, which fell to the Electors of Brandenburg in 1650 as the principality of Halberstadt, and in 1816 was absorbed into the Prussian province of Saxony, which existed until 1945. Rechte in Deersheim also owned the Westerburg office. The Westerburg was already awarded in 1180 by the bishops of Halberstadt to the Counts of Regenstein. After the extinction of the Regensteiner in 1599, the dukes of Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel inherited the office of Westerburg, but the Elector of Brandenburg was able to move in the fief as Prince of Halberstadt in 1670. The von Gustedt family was probably already resident in the parish of Deersheim and neighbouring Bexheim in 1406. In 1538 Cardinal Albrecht of Brandenburg, as administrator of the diocese of Halberstadt, enfeoffed it with jurisdiction in both villages. In the 18th century the jurisdiction was divided between the manor and the Westerburg office, in 1842 it was completely in the office. In 1706 von Gustedt acquired the parish patronage of the Braunschweig monastery St. Blasius, after they already had the patronage of the chapel in Bexheim. The estate remained in family ownership until its expropriation in the course of the land reform in 1945. Inventory information: The manor archive of the von Gustedt family from Deersheim has an older order, as old signatures on the files and an old repertory from the 2nd decade of the 19th century prove. In addition, there seems to have been a land registry that was not passed through much later. A final order of the entire file and document material was planned for the period after the end of the Second World War by the Archive Advisory Office of the Province of Saxony. In the course of the land reform, however, the manor archive was salvaged by the state main archive and first transferred to Wernigerode, then to the Magdeburg archive. In this phase there were probably losses in the portfolio. For the archival new order, the old registry structure, which could be restored except for a few gaps, offered itself as a structuring system. The holdings of the old manor archive and a lot of loose and partly disordered files had to be distributed into this system. There is no denying that there are shortcomings in this division of the registry. Their disintegration, however, would have led to the dissolution of the collection, especially as the construction of the old manor archive had been severely disrupted. The numerous loose sheets were divided into the individual chapters and placed in folders at the end of each chapter. On the basis of a contract concluded in 2000, the holdings are kept as a deposit in the Saxony-Anhalt State Archives. The main index of the Deersheim manor archive was transferred from an access file to the present archive information system in January 2014. The documents handed over in connection with the conclusion of the deposit agreement by the von Gustedt family as a supplement to the deposit were already listed under the item "Annex" in 2013. Additional information: Literature: aristocratic archives in the Saxony-Anhalt state archives. Overview of the holdings, edited by Jörg Brückner, Andreas Erb and Christoph Volkmar (Sources on the History of Saxony-Anhalt; 20), Magdeburg 2012.

Find aids: Find book from 1962 (online searchable) Registraturbilddner: Dröschkau belongs to the city of Belgern, Lkr. Nordsachsen, Freistaat Sachsen. Dröschkau was mentioned in 1130 as Burgward im Gau Belgern and belonged in the late Middle Ages to the Stiftsamt Wurzen of the Hochstifts Meißen. The Wettin claim to sovereignty over the Hochstift, manifested as early as 1485, was recognised by Bishop Johann IX of Meissen in 1581. Nevertheless, the Stiftsamt Wurzen, as a neighbouring state of Saxony, retained its own monastery government until 1818. In 1815 Dröschkau with parts of the monastery office came to Prussia and belonged there 1816-1945 to the province Saxony. 1489 in Dröschkau a outwork of the nunnery Mühlberg is documented. In 1582 Stellan von Holtzendorf was pardoned by Elector August. In 1669 the estate was transferred to the von Heynitz family as a result of a marriage. The manor, designated in 1815 as written manor, held the patrimonial jurisdiction over the place at the latest in the 18th century and was subject to the office of Torgau. The Pietzsch Vorwerk and the Schäferei Neusorge belonged to the property complex. The von Heynitz family sat on Dröschkau until the expropriation in the course of the land reform in 1945. Inventory information: The holdings were transferred to the Saxony-Anhalt State Main Archive on 27.06.1949 via the Halle/S. State Library. A repertory was not available, a continuous archive order does not seem to have existed, so that the archival records, which were mostly unbound, had to be rearranged and listed anew. If one compares the information provided by O. Steinecke (Forschungen zur Brandenburgischen und Preußischen Geschichte, vol. 15, 1902, p. 421) on the holdings of the Heynitz family archive in Dröschkau with the archive records that have been transferred to the Saxony-Anhalt state archives, it is regrettable to note that significant losses have occurred. The 41 diaries of Friedrich Anton von Heynitz from the years 1747 to 1783 and 1792 to 1802, mentioned by Steinecke, are missing, among others. The collection was arranged and recorded in 1962 and provided with a registry and inventory history. Additional information: Literature: aristocratic archives in the Saxony-Anhalt state archives. Overview of the holdings, edited by Jörg Brückner, Andreas Erb and Christoph Volkmar (Sources on the History of Saxony-Anhalt; 20), Magdeburg 2012 - Schumann: Post-Lexikon von Sachsen, vol. 2, 1815, p. 286 Schumann-Schiffner: Post-Lexikon von Sachsen, vol. 15, 1828, p. 428-430 Kneschke: Deutsches Adels-Lexikon, vol. 4, 1863, p. 364-365, 462-O. Steinecke: Frierich Anton von Heynitz. A life picture. In: Research on Brandenburg and Prussian History, Vol. 15, 1902, pp. 421-470.

Note: The holdings contain archival material that is subject to personal protection periods in accordance with § 10 Para. 3 Sentence 2 ArchG LSA and until their expiration is only accessible by shortening the protection period in accordance with § 10 Para. 4 Sentence 2 ArchG LSA or by accessing information in accordance with § 10 Para. 4a ArchG LSA. Find aids: Find index from 1970, revised in 2004, database Registraturbilder: The court office formed in 1821 in the old district court Wittenberg for the area of the former office Eilenburg was transformed in 1836 into a regional and city court, 1849 into a district court and 1879 into a district court. The closer district of the court remained constant with the exception of a few places assigned to the Delitzsch District Court. The court commission in Düben belonged to the wider district of the district and city court or district court of Eilenburg. The district court in Eilenburg was dissolved in 1945. Since 1948 a branch of the Delitzsch district court has been verifiable in Eilenburg. In 1952 a district court was formed at the same location. Inventory information: The holdings recorded in the former State Archives of Magdeburg were transferred to the newly founded State Archives of Merseburg (now the Merseburg Department of the State Archives of Saxony-Anhalt) in 1994 for reasons of competence. Estate files were already taken over by the Eilenburg District Court in 1993 without a list of deliveries. In 2004, the finding index was revised and supplemented.

Find aids: Find book from 1987 (online searchable) Registraturbilddner: Eichenbarleben belongs to the municipality Hohe Börde, Lkr. Börde, Saxony-Anhalt. In the late Middle Ages, Eichenbarleben was a fief of the Archbishopric of Magdeburg, which fell to the Electors of Brandenburg in 1680 as the Duchy of Magdeburg and merged in 1816 into the Prussian province of Saxony, which existed until 1945. 1140 a count Hoyer created the basis for a noble seat in oak bar life by the acquisition of 12 hooves. Since 1283 ministerials of Eichenbarleben are provable. In 1452 the castle, known as the Magdeburg fief, which belonged to the von Wanzleben family, passed to the von Alvensleben black line at Hundisburg. Since 1565 Eichenbarleben has been the seat of its own family branch. In 1813 he had to sell the estate, but it remained in family hands and belonged to the line Erxleben II since 1821. After the death of the Prussian Minister of State Count Albrecht von Alvensleben in 1858, Eichenbarleben moved to the von Krosigk family, who owned the estate until its expropriation in the course of the land reform in 1945. The manor, which was described in 1842 as fit for state parliament, included the parish patronage and the patrimonial jurisdiction over Eichenbarleben and Süplingen. Inventory information: The holdings seized in the course of the land reform were handed over to the then State Archives of Magdeburg in October 1949. An incomplete distortion list did not show any inner order. As a result, the inventory was redrawn. Additional information: Literature: aristocratic archives in the Saxony-Anhalt state archives. Overview of the holdings, edited by Jörg Brückner, Andreas Erb and Christoph Volkmar (Sources on the History of Saxony-Anhalt; 20), Magdeburg 2012.

Find aids: Find book from 1952 (online searchable) Filing form: Langenapel belongs to the Hanseatic city of Salzwedel, Altmarkkreis Salzwedel, Saxony-Anhalt. The Langenapel, founded in the course of the eastern colonisation of the 12th/13th century, was located in the Altmark, which developed into a territory in the 13th/14th century and finally came under the sovereignty of the Electors of Brandenburg in 1449. In 1816 the Altmark became part of the Prussian province of Saxony, which existed until 1945. For 1375 a Brandenburg castle in the possession of the von Crucemann family is documented in Langenapel. In the early 15th century, the castle fief of Salzwedel Castle passed to the Knesebeck family (black line), who, in 1425/33, brought the entire village to themselves through exchange contracts with the Schulenburg family. A storming by the citizens of Salzwedel in 1443 and an opening treaty of 1469 deprived the castle of its military significance. However, in the late 15th century the Chancellery of Kurbrandenburg counted the Knesebecks on Langenapel among the exclusive circle of the feudatories of the castle. The manor, which had been converted from a castle into a state manor, remained in family ownership until its expropriation in the course of the land reform in 1945. In 1842, the manor included patrimonial jurisdiction and the church patronage over Langenapel, which was parsed after Easter Sole. The property complex also included a manor in Dähre, acquired in 1544, and a fortification in Lagendorf that was documented in 1616. Around 1897, the Knesebeck family acquired the Deutschhorst manor from the von Meding family, the manor archive of which was incorporated into the collection. Inventory information: The archive of the Langenapel estate of Knesebeck was seized by the priest Dr. Nötzel in Osterwohle and taken over by the Saxony-Anhalt state archives in Magdeburg in 1948. As the holdings had signatures, the old structure was restored according to the signatures. The order and recording of the archive records as well as the creation of a register took place in 1952. The retroconversion of the present finding aid register was carried out in October 2013. On the basis of a contract concluded in 2008, the holdings will be deposited in the Saxony-Anhalt State Archives. Additional information: Literature: aristocratic archives in the Saxony-Anhalt state archives. Overview of the holdings, edited by Jörg Brückner, Andreas Erb and Christoph Volkmar (Sources on the History of Saxony-Anhalt; 20), Magdeburg 2012.

Note: The holdings contain archival material that is subject to personal protection periods in accordance with § 10 Para. 3 Sentence 2 ArchG LSA and until their expiration is only accessible by shortening the protection period in accordance with § 10 Para. 4 Sentence 2 ArchG LSA or by accessing information in accordance with § 10 Para. 4a ArchG LSA. Find aids: Findbuch 2001 (online searchable) Registraturbilddner: Offices as their own administrative level emerged in the course of a radical general reorganization of the municipal conditions in 1878. this reorganization had become necessary due to the diversity of the municipal constitutions in the two halves of Anhalt-Bernburg and Anhalt-Dessau-Köthen united in 1863, which had led to divergences within individual districts as a result of the merging of districts from areas of the two constituent states. In 1878, according to the Prussian model, administrative districts were inserted between the level of the districts and that of the municipalities. With the exception of the ducal castle districts and the cities, the five Anhalt districts were divided into official districts. This system of office formation also included the manor districts outside the municipal districts as well as the state fiscal domains and forests. The administrative districts could consist of one or more rural municipalities or one or more manor districts or rural municipalities and manor districts. The district administration was headed by a head official. The offices were responsible in particular for the rural police administration. With the formation of the administrative districts as districts of the general state administration in 1878, the police tasks of the former local police were transferred to the offices. Within the framework of the establishment of the police administration in Anhalt, the head of the local police was now in charge of the local police, in particular the security, order, customs, health, poor, road, water, field, forestry, fishing, trade, construction, fire police, etc., insofar as these were not reserved for the district directorate by special statutory provisions. As a police authority, the head of the office had the right to issue police ordinances for the district. As organs of the head of the municipality, the heads of the municipalities were entitled, among other things, to arrest and hold persons in custody. The heads of the municipalities also acted as organs of the office in the registration and deregistration of persons, the control of the drawing up of Gesindebücher or the health police. In 1935, all regulations concerning municipalities and manor districts were repealed and responsibilities transferred to the district committees. Of the 14 offices in total (Amt Aderstedt, Altenburg, Gerbitz [Pobzig], Giersleben [Warmsdorf], Gröna, Hohenerxleben, Ilberstedt, Kleinmühlingen [Mühlingen], Latdorf, Mehringen, Neundorf, Oberpeißen, Rathmannsdorf, Schackstedt), which existed in the district of Bernburg, have been handed down from nine offices (Altenburg, Gerbitz [Pobzig], Giersleben [Warmsdorf], Gröna, Hohenerxleben, Mühlingen, Latdorf, Neundorf, Rathmannsdorf). Rathmannsdorf and Hohenerxleben an der Bode belonged to the noble court of the von Krosigk family until 1850. When the districts in Anhalt-Bernburg were formed, the court district was added to the Bernburg district. When the offices were established in 1878, the community of Rathmannsdorf was merged with the manor to form one office. In 1952 the municipality Rathmannsdorf came to the district Staßfurt, district Magdeburg in execution of the administrative reform and reorganization of the countries. Inventory information: The stock of the Rathmannsdorf office was transferred in 1971 from the Staßfurt County Council to the Oranienbaum State Archive (today the Saxony-Anhalt State Main Archive, Dessau Department). The main focus is on: Judicial police and criminal justice, measures immediately after the National Socialists seized power, security police, citizen/people's militia, health police, veterinary police.

Note: The holdings contain archival material that is subject to personal protection periods in accordance with § 10 Para. 3 Sentence 2 ArchG LSA and until their expiration is only accessible by shortening the protection period in accordance with § 10 Para. 4 Sentence 2 ArchG LSA or by accessing information in accordance with § 10 Para. 4a ArchG LSA. Find aids: Find book from 2016 (online searchable) Registrar: General history of authorities see under tectonics group 02.05.03. District offices and district municipal administrations in the administrative district Magdeburg. Inventory information: General inventory history see under tectonics group 02.05.03. Landratsämter und Kreiskommunalverwaltungen im Regierungsbezirk Magdeburg. In 1931, 1935 and 1941, the main part of the collection was transferred to the Magdeburg State Archives, and in 1935 it was subjected to a single-stage classification according to 50 alphabetically ordered subject groups. The distortion was limited to the reproduction of the file titles of the registry creator that were handed down on the file covers. In 1966, the Stendal District Archives issued a further copy of the files of the District Committee. Most of the files were incorporated into the existing order in 1980. The small volume of the records can be attributed to considerable losses in the war and post-war period. In the course of the revision and cartoning of the inventory in 2010, it was numbered consecutively, eliminating the Roman classification numbers. The re-signing is still verifiable on file level over the listing indication "earlier signatures". When the inventory was reviewed for online publication in 2016, the structure created in 1935 was retained. Where it appeared necessary, some subject group names were linguistically adapted or adapted to the actual tradition. In addition, the file titles were revised if they were wrongly copied from the file covers or if they were too narrow when the files were created. In the case of file group no. 492-582, the notes on contents were also transferred from the old prefix sheets of the district archives and the file units were newly recorded in the case of file group no. 330-407. Since these are usually individual case files on the performance of the dismembrations in the 19th century, formed when bundles of files were separated, the farm to be dismembered was recorded with the name of the owner and the duration of the file or volume. The file no. 489 was transferred to the inventory G 4 Reichstreuhänder der Arbeit Mitteldeutschland/ Gauarbeitsamt Magdeburg-Anhalt, Magdeburg. As a result of the examination of the inventory, the new online searchable finding aid was created. Plans and drawings must be ordered stating the storage signature. Additional information: District history The district Stendal was formed in 1816 from the southeast part of the Altmark. In the French Westphalian period, the district area belonged to the Stendal district of the Elbe département. The seat of the district administrator's office and the later district municipal administration was Stendal. From 1909 to 1950, the district capital formed its own city district. The rest of the district remained unchanged until 1950 and also after the district reform of June 1950. During the administrative reform of 1952, the district of Stendal ceded its southern part to the newly formed district of Tangerhütte, while on the other hand it received six municipalities of the district of Gardelegen. The Stendal district belonged to the Magdeburg district of the GDR. The district included 119 villages in its formation. After numerous incorporations, the departure of the city of Stendal and the dissolution of the independent manor districts, there were 96 municipalities in 1939, including the cities of Arneburg, Bismark, Tangerhütte (until 1928 Vaethen, city law since 1935) and Tangermünde.

Note: The holdings contain archival material that is subject to personal protection periods in accordance with § 10 Para. 3 Sentence 2 ArchG LSA and until their expiration is only accessible by shortening the protection period in accordance with § 10 Para. 4 Sentence 2 ArchG LSA or by accessing information in accordance with § 10 Para. 4a ArchG LSA. Find aids: Findkartei 1991, Findbuch 2014 (online searchable) Registraturbilddner: In February 1897, the Aktien-Maschinenfabrik Kyffhäuserhütte Artern emerged from the Paul Reuß sheet metal and coppersmith's shop that had existed since 1881. The main products were agricultural equipment and machines for customers at home and abroad. In 1904 the company joined the Wohnungsbauverein Artern eGmbH as a co-partner. In 1910 the Maschinenfabrik merged with Ergon-Kosmos AG in Karlsruhe, in 1912 with Ruhrwerke Motoren- und Dampfkesselfabrik AG in Duisburg and finally took over Eisenwerk Brünner AG (later GmbH) in Artern in 1938. Sales offices were established in Elbing/Westpreußen (today Elblang, Poland), Nuremberg, Duisburg, Prague and Karlsruhe as well as Wroclaw, Gdansk, Berlin, Frankfurt/Oder, Hanover and Vienna. In the 1920s and 1930s the production and sales offer of the company was considerably expanded. In particular, Kaha, planet and zenith milk separators, ice machines, various types of steamers, steam generators, potato and milk can washing machines, shot and fertilizer mills, boilers, hay and straw blowers, boilers and radiators were offered. During the 2nd World War, war materials, anti-aircraft accessories and gunships were also built. Between 1946 and 1949, the company was confiscated, sequestered and liquidated, and converted into the machine factory of Soviet AG Maschinenbau vorm. Kyffhäuserhütte (SAG) in the Transmasch combine. In 1952 the company was transferred into public ownership as VEB Maschinenfabrik Kyffhäuserhütte. Inventory information: In 1988, the company archive of the VEB Kyffhäuserhütte Artern handed over to the State Archive Magdeburg documents of the Aktien-Maschinenfabrik Kyffhäuserhütte Artern and its successor company which had been indexed via a number list and an incomplete card index. The partial revision of the index data was carried out in 1991 by an archival assistant, with minor corrections to archive signatures, durations and file titles. There were no cassations of archive material. In 1994 the Landeshauptarchiv Magdeburg transferred the files to the newly founded Landesarchiv Merseburg. In 2011 the card index was first retroconverted in the archive program scopeArchiv, in 2014 the final archive processing of the files took place. Additional information: Further parts of the company tradition of the Kyffhäuserhütte Aktienmaschinenfabrik Artern or from the time of the VEB Maschinenfabrik Kyffhäuserhütte are kept in the Museum Kyffhäuserhütte (Artern, Oberer Hof) and at the Kyffhäuser Maschinenfabrik Artern GmbH (Artern, Otto-Brünner-Straße 4). Literature: Krombholz, Klaus: Agricultural engineering of the GDR. Light and shadow. Möller, Florian, Hübner, Sebastian: History of the Kyffhäuserhütte Artern (in: "Der Goldene Pflug" Förderverein Dt. Landwirtschaftsmuseum e.V. Stuttgart /Universität Hohenheim, pp. 33-44 Photos included: 10

Note: The holdings contain archival material that is subject to personal protection periods in accordance with § 10 Para. 3 Sentence 2 ArchG LSA and until their expiration is only accessible by shortening the protection period in accordance with § 10 Para. 4 Sentence 2 ArchG LSA or by accessing information in accordance with § 10 Para. 4a ArchG LSA. Find aids: Findbuch 2016 (online searchable) Registraturbilddner: As successor to the Neue Aktienzuckerraffinerie Halle, which had existed since 1859 and went bankrupt in 1880, Zuckerraffinerie AG Halle was founded in 1881 with headquarters in Raffineriestraße there. The main purpose of the company was the processing of raw sugar into consumable sugar. Bread, cube, utility, granulated and icing sugar as well as molasses were produced. In 1885, the AG took over the Hallesche Zuckersiederei Compagnie auf Aktien, which had existed since 1835 (Am Hospitalplatz, Halle-Glaucha), the operation of which was abandoned in 1906. In 1922 the refinery joined the Vereinigung Mitteldeutscher Rohzuckerfabriken Halle (VEMIRO), whose representatives (raw sugar factories) held the majority of the shares in the company. As a result, raw sugar was processed only on the basis of factory wage contracts. Sugar sales were organized by Zuckervertriebsgesellschaft AG Halle. In the 1940s, prisoners of war, forced labourers and foreign workers were also used to ensure refinery production. In World War II, the sugar refinery AG was heavily destroyed, expropriated in 1946 and placed under the control of the industrial works of Saxony-Anhalt. As of 1 July 1948, the company was transferred into public ownership as VVB Zuckerindustrie - VEB Zuckerraffinerie Halle. In 1951 it became the VEB "Vorwärts" Zuckerraffinerie Halle. Inventory information: From the administrative archive of the VEB Zuckerkombinat Halle, about 6 linear metres of documents from the Zuckerraffinerie AG Halle were handed over to the Staatsarchiv Magdeburg in 1981, where the files were redrawn on index cards in 1984. The collection was transferred to the newly founded Landesarchiv Merseburg (later Landesarchiv Sachsen-Anhalt, Merseburg Department) in 1994. In 2013, the search index was retroconverted in the scopeArchiv distorting program. In 2016 the complete revision of the written material was carried out. Additional information: Corresponding holdings: - I 599 VEMIRO, - I 601 ZVG Halle - Holdings of various sugar factories Literature: Karl Sewering: Zuckerindustrie und Zuckerhandel in Deutschland. Poeschel Verlag Stuttgart 1933. Olbrich, Hubert: Sugar museum in upheaval. University publishing house of the TU Berlin, 2012. Olbrich, Hubert: Sugar museum in exile. University publishing house of the TU Berlin, 2013. Olbrich, Hubert: Zucker-Museum, vol. 26. Druckhaus Hentrich, Berlin, 1989 (2016).

Find aids: Find book from 1990 (online searchable); partly unexcavated registry formers: Walbeck belongs to the city of Hettstedt, Lkr. Mansfeld-Südharz, Saxony-Anhalt. In 992 Otto III from Wittum transferred the royal court of Walbeck to Empress Adelheid of Quedlinburg to establish a Benedictine monastery consecrated in 997. In 1540/42 the Counts of Mansfeld secularised the monastery over which they had exercised the bailiwick since 1387. During the sequestration in 1570/73, Walbeck was placed under the administration of the Electorate of Saxony as part of the county of Mansfeld-Vorderort. In 1815, it passed to Prussia, where it was assigned to the province of Saxony in 1816-1945. In 1563 Count Hans Albrecht von Mansfeld-Vorderort pledged the Walbeck office, consisting of the monastery estate and the villages Ritterode and Meisberg, to Ludolf von Bortfeld. His descendants ceded the pledge in 1661 to Count Johann Albrecht von Ronoff, who in 1663 compared himself with the Mansfeldern on resale acquisition. In 1677 he sold it to Friedrich Casimir zu Eltz. In 1727 the estate passed from his descendants by inheritance to Philipp Wilhelm and Johann Clamor von dem Bussche. The latter acquired it in 1742 as a hereditary purchase, in 1745 achieved the status of a knight's manor with old written records, and in 1743/50 had the baroque palace built. In 1845 Walbeck fell to Friedrich August Tellemann, who had married Anna von dem Bussche, by buying out the remaining heirs. Through her daughter Anna's marriage to Heinrich Friedrich Remigius Bartels, the manor was transferred to his family, who owned it until it was expropriated in the course of the land reform in 1945. In 1827 the patrimonial jurisdiction over Walbeck, Ritterode, Meisberg (partly) and Quenstedt belonged to the manor called Rittergut. The Quenstedt manor, formed from several hereditary properties, was acquired in 1726/27 and separated again in 1843 when it was divided, and the Kupferberg manor, which had belonged to Walbeck since 1667, before Hettstedt, was temporarily co-administered. The church of Walbeck was supplied by the parish of Bräunrode. Inventory information: On the basis of a contract concluded in 2014, the holdings will be deposited in the Saxony-Anhalt State Archives. Additional information: Literature: aristocratic archives in the Saxony-Anhalt state archives. Overview of the holdings, edited by Jörg Brückner, Andreas Erb and Christoph Volkmar (Sources on the History of Saxony-Anhalt; 20), Magdeburg 2012.