Metadata: Administrative files of the high office until 1808
Collection
- Country:
- Liechtenstein
- Holding institution:
- National Archive of Liechtenstein
- Holding institution (official language):
- Liechtensteinisches Landesarchiv
- Postal address:
- Peter-Kaiser-Platz 2; 9490 Vaduz
- Phone number:
- +423 236 6341
- Web address:
- http://www.llv.li/#/1650?scrollto=true
- Email:
- landesarchiv@llv.li
- Reference number:
- RA
- Title:
- Administrative files of the high office until 1808
- Title (official language):
- Oberamtsakten bis 1808
- Creator/accumulator:
- Administration of Schellenberg; administration of Vaduz; administration of the prinicpality of Liechtenstein
- Date(s):
- 1636/1808
- Language:
- German
- Extent:
- 82 microfilms
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
-
The collection “Oberamtsakten bis 1808” (Files of the high office until 1808) holds a variety of files concerning Jewish individuals. Most of these files contain correspondence about issues with tolls, debts and similar topics.
For example, Fascicle RA 06/06/28 includes a letter from 1802 in which a customs officer complains about the refusal of the Jews from Hohenems to pay their “Leibzoll” (“body toll”). RA 16/031-034 contains correspondence about a search for a man who sold stolen goods to a Jew from Hohenems, while RA 36/012 includes a debenture bond of Sebastian Marxer and Sebastian Senti who owed 50 gulden to Josle Levi of Sulz. Similar cases are to be found at RA 37/0584 and RA 37/0700-0712. In both cases, people owed money to moneylenders, including Jews.
The collection holds a letter that was written by Franz Michael Sager, the executor of the will of a Jew called Oppenheimer, in which Sager demands payment of a debtor of the late Mr. Oppenheimer (RA 37/0884-0891). Another letter contains a summons of the high office to Jakob Mündle and Jakob Nagel (RA 37/1027). Both men had to give testimony about the debts of Salomon Wolf of Hohenems. RA 68/11/134-136 contains correspondence about the business between Liechtenstein and the merchant Moses Levi of Hohenems during the French occupation at the end of the 18th century. The principality was forced by the French to supply their troops and therefore had to deal with Moses Levi.
Signatures: RA 06/02/1 to RA 06/11/136; RA 06/07/28; RA 16/031-034; RA 36/012; RA 37/0584; RA 37/0700 to RA 37/0712; RA 37/0884 to RA 37/0891; RA 37/1027; RA 62/06/01-36; RA 68/11/134-136; RA 74/144-145; RA 74/156; RA 75/40.
- Archival history:
- The archive was established in 1961.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- The principality of Liechtenstein consists of the counties of Schellenberg and Vaduz. Schellenberg was bought by the Liechtensteins in 1699 while Vaduz was bought in 1712. Before then, both counties had belonged to the counts of Hohenems. Schellenberg and Vaduz were later united as the Prinicpality of Liechtenstein. In 1806, Liechtenstein became part of the Rheinbund (Confederation of the Rhine). This was the beginning of the sovereignty of the principality, although it was under the heavy influence of Austria until 1918.
- Access points: persons/families:
- Hilb
- Lämmle
- Levi
- Levi, Josle
- Levi, Moses
- Moos
- Oppenheimer
- Wolf
- Wolf, Salomon
- Access, restrictions:
- No restrictions on access.
- Finding aids:
- There is an online finding aid, which lists the documents in the archive and provides in-depth information.
- Links to finding aids:
- https://www.llv.li/inhalt/1650/amtsstellen/landesarchiv
- Yerusha Network member:
- Jewish Museum Hohenems
- Author of the description:
- Severin Holzknecht, Jewish Museum of Hohenems, 2017