Metadata: Office of the Vogt of Bludenz
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:
- Office of the Vogt of Bludenz
- Title (official language):
- Vogteiamt Bludenz
- Creator/accumulator:
- Office of the Vogt of Bludenz
- Date(s):
- 1402/1862
- Language:
- German
- Extent:
- 358 boxes and 539 manuscripts
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
-
The collection “Vogteiamt Bludenz” (Office of the Vogt of Bludenz) holds many documents concerning Jewish life and Jewish individuals in the sphere of influence of the Vogt of Bludenz (the head of the administration).
For example, the collection holds letters that confirm the abolition of the “Leibmaut” (or Leibzoll) in 1782 (022/148 and 43/470). The “Leibmaut” (body toll) was a special toll for Jews that wanted to cross borders between states or territories. Fascicle 023/162 includes correspondence concerning Jewish moneylenders, debts and so on between 1551 and 1641 (the Jewish community in Hohenems was founded in 1617). Other files hold correspondence about the abolition of a trading ban with Jewish merchants from 1745 to 1748 (fascicle 051/627) or letters concerning a new trading ban or correspondence about the stiffening of this trading ban in 1762 (fascicle 147/2871).
Fascicle 146/2835 includes a protocol of an interrogation in the course of investigations concerning the theft of the pocket watch of Salomon Mayer while others contain documents such as a letter concerning a trial against an Alsatian Jew (fascicle 150/3008), an interrogation protocol of Wolf David Levi who wanted to convert to Christianity in 1805 (fascicle 160/3474) or two descriptions of Jewish gangs made up of 39 people altogether who committed robberies in the region in 1755 (fascicle 163/1755/128).
Fascicles 163/1756/123 and 163/1756/135 contain documents concerning the exiling of Josef Abraham in 1756 for the counterfeiting of coins, while fascicle 163/1764/153 includes a letter that asks for the raise of the “Judeschutzgeld” (protection money) from 15 Kreuzer to 1 Gulden (where 1 Gulden = 60 Kreuzer). Fascicles 163/1766/65 and 163/1766/79 hold documents concerning the import of salt by Gabriel Uffenheimer dating back to 1766. The contract ended in 1770 and was renewed in 1775 after a five-year break.
Fascicle 163/1765/98 includes a decree about the baptising of Jewish children. It happened quite often that zealous Christians baptised Jewish children against the will of their parents, therefore this practice was prohibited in 1787 (163/1787/420). Fascicle 163/1782/104 contains descriptions of two exiled Jews named David Isaac and Philipp Joras, while 163/1787/646 holds an imperial decree that ordered Jewish people to carry not only personal names, but also family names. There is also a file containing a letter which confirms that Jewish lawyers are allowed to defend Christians at court when the case does not concern canon law (163/1790/524).
Signatures: Vogteiamt Bludenz; 017/71; 022/148; 032/262; 043/470; 051/627; 063/787; 135/1884; 145/2762; 146/2835; 147/2871; 150/3008; 151/3108; 160/3466; 160/3474; 163/1753/51; 163/1754/144; 163/1755/100; 163/1755/128; 163/1756/123; 163/1756/135; 163/1757/65; 163/1763/11; 163/1764/153; 163/1765/70; 163/1765/93; 163/1765/98; 163/1766/65; 163/1766/79; 163/1768/83; 163/1769/3; 163/1769/116; 163/1769/156; 163/1769/167; 163/1770/90; 163/1770/95; 163/1770/126; 163/1771/117; 163/1772/95; 163/1773/25; 163/1773/47; 163/1774/54; 163/1775/127; 163/1775/140; 163/1781/58; 163/1782/11; 163/1782/104; 163/1783/42; 163/1783/81; 163/1783/309; 163/1785/242; 163/1787/414; 163/1787/420; 163/1787/646; 163/1787/788; 163/1788/150; 163/1788/256; 163/1788/320; 163/1788/339; 163/1789/47; 163/1789/49; 163/1789/230; 163/1789/326; 163/1790/524; 163/1791/153; 163/1792/90; 163/1792/453; 163/1794/486; 163/1795/649; 163/1802/313; 163/1802/346; 163/1805/294; 167/1550/3; 163/1557/3; 181/1567/1; Hs 17/fol. 241.
- Archival history:
- The archival history of this collection is unknown.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- The office of the Vogt was an administrative institution that was installed to administer a territory, in this case the territory of the county of Bludenz.
- Access points: locations:
- Wien
- Access points: persons/families:
- Hirsch
- Isaac, David
- Joras, Philipp
- Kuhn
- Lebel
- Leeb
- Levi
- Levi, Wolf David
- Mayer
- Mayer, Salomon
- Schay
- Uffenheimer
- Uffenheimer, Gabriel
- Access, restrictions:
- No restrictions on access.
- Finding aids:
- There are two finding aids. The first is “Vogteiamt Bludenz” (office of the Vogt of Bludenz), which is an Excel file that holds information about the content of the 358 boxes of the collection and can be downloaded. The second finding aid is “Vogteiamt Bludenz Handschriften” (office of the Vogt of Bludenz manuscripts) which holds information about the manuscripts of the collection.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Jewish Museum Hohenems
- Author of the description:
- Severin Holzknecht, Jewish Museum of Hohenems, 2017