Metadata: Series of deeds - Customer Letters
Collection
- Country:
- Austria
- Holding institution:
- Tyrolean Regional Archive
- Holding institution (official language):
- Tiroler Landesarchiv
- Postal address:
- Michael-Gaismair-Straße 1; 6020 Innsbruck
- Phone number:
- 0043 512 508 3502
- Web address:
- https://www.tirol.gv.at/kunst-kultur/landesarchiv/
- Email:
- landesarchiv@tirol.gv.at
- Reference number:
- Mischbestände - Parteibriefe
- Title:
- Series of deeds - Customer Letters
- Title (official language):
- Urkundenreihen - Parteibriefe
- Creator/accumulator:
- Territorial Treasury Archive
- Date(s):
- 1192/1803
- Language:
- German
- Extent:
- 137 boxes
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
- The collection “Deed series – Customer letters” is a non-Jewish collection with a certain number of Jewish-related documents. This series covers the period from 1192 to 1803. It is a collection of deeds of private persons (“Parteien”, i.e. “parties”), who submitted these documents in the course of legal procedures to the central authorities of Tyrol as proof or evidence. As a general rule, the records were first collected and stored in the registries of the territorial agencies and were finally delivered to the Treasury Archive of Tyrol. As this archive was dissolved in the 19th century, the “Customer letters” were numbered and summarised in a card catalogue, which is publicly accessible for users and researchers in the Tyrolean Regional Archive. ( Cf. Beimrohr, Das Tiroler Landesarchiv und seine Bestände, 47.) These legal records mostly deal with monetary transactions and contain some Jewish references. These documents show details about authorisations, granted privileges, liberties and tax exemptions as well as demands and disputes concerning debts. Jewish businessmen or traders primarily appear as creditors and debtors in these records.
- Archival history:
- This collection was transferred to the Tyrolean Regional Archive as part of the regular document transfer process stipulated by national archival regulations.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- The primary accumulator of the collection “Customer letters” was the Territorial Treasury Archive, which was the central territorial archive in Tyrol and Further Austria. The Treasury Archive was the predecessor of the modern Tyrolean Regional Archive. Its scope was often redefined and it was merged with other regional registries and archives. Finally, it was dissolved in the early 19th century and was incorporated to the new Archive called “Statthaltereiarchiv“ (Archive of the Governor’s Office), from which the modern Tyrolean Regional Archive arose. Records from other archives, for example the dissolved archive of Görz and the disbanded Pest archive, were also added to the collection of “Customer letters”. (Cf. Beimrohr, Das Tiroler Landesarchiv und seine Bestände, 47.)
- Access points: locations:
- Tyrol
- System of arrangement:
- The collection “Deed series” is divided into “Large documents” (“Großlibelle”), “Customer letters” (“Parteibriefe”), “Deed series I” and “Deed-series II”.
- Access, restrictions:
- Public access
- Finding aids:
- Finding aids: Rep. Z 2 (Register), B 351-355 (Index). NB: Most of the catalogues of the Tyrolean Regional Archive include not only content registers but also subject indices. These can be searched for terms such as “Juden” (“Jews”), “Judentum” (“Judaism“), “Judenschaft” (“Judaism”), “Israeliten” (Israelites) and “Hebräer” (Hebrews). Usually there are numbers next to the entries concerning Jewish matters, which are needed to find the records in the register. The next step is to look up the number in the content registers to get a first impression of the written sources. Documents of interest can be ordered with their reference number for further consultation.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Jewish Museum Hohenems
- Author of the description:
- Rebecca Muršec, June 2017