Metadata: Aristocracy records
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 - Adelssachen
- Title:
- Aristocracy records
- Title (official language):
- Adelssachen
- Creator/accumulator:
- Aulic Council; Privy Council; Gubernium
- Date(s):
- 1495/1918
- Date note:
- ca. 1500-1918
- Language:
- German
- Extent:
- 30 boxes and folders
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
-
The collection “Aristocracy records” is a non-Jewish collection with a small number of Jewish-related documents. It covers the period from the 16th to the 18th century and consists of various documents concerning grants of nobilities and arms from the collection “Deed series I, II”, “Customer books” and records from the archive of the Tyrolean State Museum Ferdinandeum as well as genealogical tables from the collection “Codices” and various maps.
The collection includes an account book of King Ferdinand I from the 16th century, which contains an extract from the tax regulation he issued in 1545. The tax regulation book shows the obligations of nobilities they had to meet in order to have their privileges confirmed. A short passage in this account book notes that the privileges and liberties of the Jews Leo, Josef and Gerson were confirmed by paying a certain amount.
- 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:
- At the end of the 19th century archivists of the so-called “Statthaltereiarchiv“ (Archive of the Governor’s Office) collected documents related to aristocratic matters. The conferments of nobilities and arms were collected from different registries of the regional agencies or authorities, such as the Aulic Council (“Reichshofrat“), Privy Council (“Geheimer Rat”) and the “Gubernium”. (Cf. Beimrohr, Das Tiroler Landesarchiv und seine Bestände, 56.)
- Access points: locations:
- Tyrol
- Subject terms:
- Nobility
- Privileges
- Access, restrictions:
- Public access
- Finding aids:
- Finding aid: Rep. B 180 (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