Metadata: District court of Feldkirch
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:
- District court of Feldkirch
- Title (official language):
- Landgericht Feldkirch
- Creator/accumulator:
- District court of Feldkirch
- Date(s):
- 1807/1853
- Language:
- German
- Extent:
- 261 boxes and 23 manuscripts
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
-
The collection “Landgericht Feldkirch” (District court of Feldkirch) holds five documents of interest. They are to be found under the signature Präsidiale (presidential; in terms of presidium of the court): Nr. 28, Nr. 182, Nr. 189, Nr. 234 and Nr. 624.
The first file (Nr 28) contains a letter of the commissioner general of the Illerkreis (the district Vorarlberg was part of during the Bavarian time between 1805 and 1814) from 1810 that regulates the selling of meat by Jews. The second file (Nr 182) contains a protocol (including a voluminous correspondence) of a case that took place in 1810 against the merchant Herz Löw Lämmle about the selling of leather. The third file (Nr 189) contains the correspondence from 1810 between Lazar Josef Levi and a citizen of Augsburg called Biolley about a bill of exchange. The fourth file (Nr 234) contains a personal description of an unnamed Jew from 1810. The sought-after Jew spoke “Jüdische Mundart” (Jewish dialect, i.e. Yiddish). The fifth file contains a debenture of Bermann Levi from 1810 and the associated newspaper article.
Signatures: Landgericht Feldkirch Präsidiale Nr. 28; Nr. 182; Nr. 189; Nr. 234; Nr. 624
- Archival history:
- The acquisition of the collection is unclear, but it must have happend before 1992.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- The Landgerichte (district courts) were introduced by the Bavarian rulers in 1806/1807 and were an institution that had administrative and jurisdictional duties. The Landgerichte (district courts) were in place until 1850, when their duties were split up and they were replaced by the Bezirkshaupmannschaften (district administrations) and the Bezirksgerichte (district courts) respectively.
- Access points: persons/families:
- Lämmle, Herz Löw
- Levi, Bermann
- Levi, Lazar Josef
- Access, restrictions:
- No restrictions on access.
- Finding aids:
- There are two finding aids. The first is the “Landgericht Feldkirch Akten” (District court of Feldkirch files). This contains a list of all boxes and their contents. The second is the “Landgericht Feldkirch Handschriften” (District court of Feldkirch manuscripts). It contains the protocols of interrogations and trials.
- Links to finding aids:
- http://www.vorarlberg.at/pdf/rep_14-155landgerichtfeld.pdf
- Yerusha Network member:
- Jewish Museum Hohenems
- Author of the description:
- Severin Holzknecht, Jewish Museum of Hohenems, 2017
