Metadata: Office of the Vogt 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:
- Office of the Vogt of Feldkirch
- Title (official language):
- Vogteiamt Feldkirch
- Creator/accumulator:
- Office of the Vogt of Feldkirch
- Date(s):
- 1412/1812
- Language:
- German
- Latin
- Extent:
- 66 boxes and 40 manuscripts
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
-
The collection holds a number of manuscripts concerning Jewish individuals. Five manuscripts (2 to 6) contain interrogation protocols dated between the 1680s and the 1740s. Most of these cases were about robberies of various kinds. Members of the Wolf family (Hs 5) and other Jews were sometimes involved as the accused but more often as the victims of these thefts.
Four manuscripts (21 to 24) are so-called “Raitbücher” (account books) and contain bills and accounts from between 1733 and 1741. These manuscripts contain, amongst others, accounts of the Levi, Weil (Weyl) and Wolf families. One manuscript (Nr. 5) contains files concerning the expulsion of the Jews from the town of Sulz near Hohenems and the riots against the Jews in that town in 1744, 1745 and 1762. This document includes, for example, a complaint of Josle Levit Salomon, who had left Sulz during the war in 1744 and found his doors broken and his house looted on his return. He therefore filed a charge. The document also includes a list of broken and stolen things. Another document (Nr. 6) is about the expulsion of a Jew named Wolf from Rankweil in 1640.
Signatures: Vogteiamt Feldkirch; box 5 and 6; Hs 2 (fol. 221, 312, 384f); Hs 3 (fol. 281, 445, 453f, 517, 561, 743, 745); Hs 4 (letters dated 6.5.1710, 12.11.1711, 12.2.1712, 29.3.1713); Hs 5 (letter dated 29.10.1724); Hs 6 (fol. 127, 128b, 176b, 208); Hs 21; Hs 22; Hs 23; Hs 24
- Archival history:
- The collection was created in 1955.
- 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 Feldkirch.
- Subject terms:
- Crime
- Expulsion
- Financial matters
- Legal matters
- Manuscripts
- Access, restrictions:
- No restrictions on access.
- Finding aids:
- There are two finding aids. The first is “Vogteiamt Feldkirch” (office of the Vogt of Feldkirch), which holds information about the content of the 66 boxes of the collection. The second finding aid is “Vogteiamt Feldkirch Handschriften” (office of the Vogt of Feldkirch 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