Place Name for Göttingen in 1776.

Question

Not being familiar enough with the soup-sandwich of 18th Century European geopolitical boundaries I have to ask - what is the 'correct' place name for Göttingen in 1776.

My guess is:

Göttingen, Brunswick-Lüneburg, Heiliges Römisches Reich

Answer 1

Göttingen, Kurfürstentum Braunschweig-Lüneburg aka Kurhannover, the first being the offizial name, the latter the more popular one. Became Königreich Hannover in 1806/1814. And Heiliges Römisches Reich until 1806.

Comments

Helmut

You're awesome! And thank you.

I'll leave trying to find a birth or baptism record from there for another day. With any luck the first record from the Netherlands giving surname as "Neubauer" has captured the original spelling for Christiaan Frans Nijboer.

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It would be the phonetical equivalent.