Metadata: Administration of Feldkirch district I 1850 to 1940
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
- Reference number:
- BH Feldkirch I 1850 to 1940
- Title:
- Administration of Feldkirch district I 1850 to 1940
- Title (official language):
- Bezirkshauptmannschaft Feldkirch I 1850 bis 1940
- Creator/accumulator:
- Administration of Feldkirch district
- Date(s):
- 1840/1947
- Language:
- German
- Extent:
- 1,530 boxes and 72 manuscripts
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
-
The collection “Bezirkshauptmannschaft Feldkirch I 1850 bis 1940” (Administration of the district of Feldkirch I 1850 to 1940) is an extensive collection of administrative documents. It mainly holds correspondence, decrees and other records concerning the administration of the district of Feldkirch. The files concerning the Jewish community cover the years from 1872 to 1939. The majority of these files was produced in the years 1938-1939 after the occupation of Austria by German troops, the so-called “Anschluss”.
However the most voluminous cluster of files covers the years between 1872 and 1911 (1872/SF). This file contains the correspondence of the Jewish school of Hohenems with the authorities. A list of children that attended the Jewish school of Hohenems in the late 1890s is of particular interest.
Other records contain documents of charitable organisations like the Israelitischer Wohltätigkeitsverein (Israelite charity association) (1878/56) or the Israelitischer Frauen- und Mädchenwohltätigkeitsverein (Israelite women and girls charity association) (1905/540).
The collection furthermore holds a manuscript that contains extracts of registers of the Jewish community. It covers births (1769 to 1887), marriages (1835 to 1887) and deaths (1784 to 1887). The files 1930/1230 and 1935/933 contain a number of documents concerning the business of Edmund Turteltaub, while file L 1876/no. 6 and 7 document the Jewish community of Hohenems (statutes, correspondence etc.) and Christian and Jewish individuals (Daniel Einstein, Adolf Burgauer and Samuel Kurländer, for example).
The records of the years 1938 and 1939 are mainly registrations of Jewish companies and individuals (AbtII 1938/892) or decrees of the Reichsregierung (the government in Berlin) (AbtII 1938/1090) and are quite similar or identical to the records of the “Reichsstatthalter in Tirol und Vorarlberg” collection.
Signatures: BH Feldkirch I 1850 to 1940; 1852/6730 (year/running number), 1872/SF, Group L/1876 (6,7), 1878/56, 1878/SF, 1905/540, 1907/Sf-B; AbtI 1923/XIV-40 (year/signature), 1935/119, 1936/643, 1938/727, 1938/792, 1938/894, 1939/997, 1939/1253a; AbtII 1930/1230, 1935/933, 1938/633, 1938/892, 1938/1090, 1940/680; AbtIII 1938/378, 1938/828, 1938/1004, 1938/1078, 1939/320, 1939/468, 1939/754, 1939/843; manuscript Hs 1.
NB: Some files that are noted to be in the collection were relocated to the Landrat or Reichsstatthalter collections or deaccessioned.
- Archival history:
- The collection was acquired between 1951 and 1960.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- The administrative level of districts was introduced after the suppression of the revolution in 1848-49 and was first called Bezirksamt (district department). From 1868 onwards these Bezirksämter were called Bezirkshauptmannschaften (district commission). Vorarlberg was divided into three districts. Bregenz, Bludenz and Feldkirch. The districts are still the administrative level between the community level and the state level but these days there are four districts in Vorarlberg (Dornbirn, Hohenems and Lustenau, which used to be part of the district of Feldkirch, now form the district of Dornbirn). Between 1940 and 1945, the districts were called Landkreise (counties) to align the former Austrian territories with the German administration.
- Access points: persons/families:
- Altmann
- Benedek
- Bernbein
- Brunner
- Burgauer
- Burgauer, Adolf
- Einstein
- Einstein, Daniel
- Elkan
- Erteschek
- Guggenheim
- Hirschfeld
- Jakobowsky
- Kurländer
- Kurländer, Samuel
- Landauer
- Löwenberg
- Löwengard
- Lowy
- Mayer
- Perlhefter
- Pollak
- Riccabona
- Rosenthal
- Sagmeister
- Schulz
- Silberstein
- Theresienthaler
- Turteltaub
- Turteltaub, Edmund
- Weil
- Zigan
- Access, restrictions:
- No restrictions on access.
- Finding aids:
- There are four finding aids, three of which are online. The first is the “Bezirkshauptmannschaft Feldkirch I 1850 bis 1918” (District administration of Feldkirch I 1850 to 1918). It contains a list of the boxes 1 to 688 and the associated signatures. The second one is called “Bezirkshauptmannschaft Feldkirch I 1919 to 1940” and contains a list of the boxes 689 to 1530 and the associated signatures. The third finding aid is called “Bezirkshauptmannschaft und Landratsamt Feldkirch Handschriften” (manuscripts of the district and county of Feldkirch). It is an overview of the manuscripts. The fourth finding aid comprises the Findbücher (finding aid books). They are necessary to locate files. A researcher has to screen the Findbücher for keywords and their signatures to find the position of the particular files.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Jewish Museum Hohenems
- Author of the description:
- Severin Holzknecht, Jewish Museum of Hohenems, 2017