Metadata: Administration of Bludenz district I 1850 to 1938
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 Bludenz I 1850 to 1938
- Title:
- Administration of Bludenz district I 1850 to 1938
- Title (official language):
- Bezirkshauptmannschaft Bludenz I 1850 bis 1938
- Creator/accumulator:
- Administration of Bludenz district
- Date(s):
- 1687/1985
- Language:
- German
- Extent:
- 676 boxes and 22 manuscripts
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
- The collection “Bezirkshauptmannschaft Bludenz I 1850 bis 1938” (administration of the district of Bludenz I 1850 to 1938) holds only one document concerning the Jewish community or Jews in general, which can be found at AbtIII 1929/2019. It is a circular of the government of Vorarlberg concerning the migration of mainly male Polish Jews to Palestine through Austrian territory. These men hadn't fulfilled their compulsory military service in Poland and were therefore classified as deserters by the Polish authorities. The Austrian authorities decreed that men of Polish or Jewish-Polish origin who did not have the right papers (travelling papers, passports and so on) had to be deported back to the Austrian border from whence they came.
- Archival history:
- The collection was acquired in 1919 and sporadically added to.
- 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: locations:
- Bregenz
- Subject terms:
- Mandatory Palestine
- Migration
- Migration--Emigration
- Military
- Passports and visas
- Access, restrictions:
- No restrictions on access.
- Finding aids:
-
There are three finding aids, two of which are online. The first one is “Bezirkshauptmannschaft Bludenz I 1850 bis 1938” (District administration of Bludenz I 1850 to 1938). It contains a list of the boxes and the associated signatures. The second one is called “Bezirkshauptmannschaft und Landratsamt Bludenz Handschriften” (Manuscripts of the district administration and the county commission of Bludenz). It contains a list of manuscripts. The third comprises the Findbücher (finding aid books). They are necessary to locate files.
Finding aids can be accessed at the following links: http://www.vorarlberg.at/pdf/rep_14-032bezirkshauptman.pdf
http://www.vorarlberg.at/pdf/rep_14-032bezirkshauptma1.pdf
- Links to finding aids:
- http://www.vorarlberg.at/pdf/rep_14-032bezirkshauptman.pdf
- Yerusha Network member:
- Jewish Museum Hohenems
- Author of the description:
- Severin Holzknecht, Jewish Museum of Hohenems, 2017