Metadata: Administration of Hohenems
Collection
- Country:
- Austria
- Holding institution:
- National Archive of Vorarlberg
- Holding institution (official language):
- Vorarlberger Landesarchiv
- Postal address:
- Kirchstrasse 28; 6900 Bregenz
- Phone number:
- +43 5574 511 45 012
- Email:
- landesarchiv@vorarlberg.at
- Title:
- Administration of Hohenems
- Title (official language):
- Administration Hohenems
- Creator/accumulator:
- Austrian administration of the Imperial County of Hohenems
- Date(s):
- 1636/1807
- Language:
- German
- Extent:
- 10 boxes and 15 manuscripts
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
-
The collection of the Administration of Hohenems mainly holds the records of the period between 1765 and 1805. The collection is a quite well-structured. The bulk of the documents concerning the Jewish community of Hohenems are located in two clusters. The first cluster is to be found in the collection of files named “Administration Hohenems Akten” (files of the administration of Hohenems). The records concerning the Jewish community are the so-called “Judensachen” (Jewish matters). The fascicle holds a number of letters and charts that were drafted between the late 1770s and the turn of the century. The charts are primarily delivery lists and contain a quite sizeable number of customer names.
The second cluster, more precisely a “Handschrift” (manuscript), is called “Acta criminalia etc. Salomon Lewi Jakobs Sohn von Hohenems (Stoffdiebstahl)” (criminal act etc. Salomon Lewi, son of Jakob of Hohenems (theft of cloth)) and contains a vast number of letters, statements and procotcols of interrogations dated 1777 and 1778.
- Archival history:
- The collection was probably acquired shortly after the Second World War. The exact date is not known.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- Franz Wilhelm III., the last Imperial Count of Hohenems of the house of Hohenems, died in 1759. Thus, the Imperial County became a complete imperial fiefdom. In 1765 Emperor Charles I of Habsburg-Lorraine, the husband of the ruler of Austria Maria Theresia, granted the Imperial County to his wife and so the Habsburgs acquired Hohenems. However, Austria did not hold the county of Hohenems for long. The Habsburgs managed to keep hold of the county until 1805. After losing the Battle of Austerlitz Austria had to make peace with France. The Treaty of Pressburg forced Austria to yield a number of its territories to an ally of France, the newly founded Kingdom of Bavaria. Bavaria acquired Salzburg, Tyrol and the counties that comprise Vorarlberg today. For the next nine years, Vorarlberg was under Bavarian rule. In 1814, Bavaria had to return the three territories to the Empire of Austria.
- Access points: persons/families:
- Levi
- Lewi
- Lewi, Salomon
- Subject terms:
- Crime
- Jewish community
- Jewish community records
- Legal matters
- Trade and commerce
- Access, restrictions:
- No restrictions on access.
- Finding aids:
- There are two finding aids. The first one is the Administration Hohenems Akten (files). It's an overview of the arrangement of the various fascicles. The second finding aid is the Administration Hohenems Handschriften (manuscripts). There you will find a list of the several manuscripts that are stored in this collection.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Jewish Museum Hohenems
- Author of the description:
- Severin Holzknecht, Jewish Museum of Hohenems, 2017