Metadata: Rent rolls
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 - Urbare
- Title:
- Rent rolls
- Title (official language):
- Urbare
- Creator/accumulator:
- Administration office for rent rolls
- Date(s):
- 1275/1840
- Date note:
- ca. 1280-1840
- Language:
- German
- Extent:
- ca. 1,800 volumes
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
-
The collection “Rent rolls“ is a non-Jewish collection with an unknown number of Jewish-related documents covering the period from ca. 1280 to 1840. (Cf. Beimrohr, Das Tiroler Landesarchiv und seine Bestände, 60.)
The “Rent rolls” comprise registers and descriptions of immovable properties of Tyrolean princes (for example dominions) including their interests and taxes or duties. These properties are not only dominions, but also administrative offices or appointments. These immovable properties were committed by the territorial Serenity to the aristocrats as a pawn or fief in the 16th century. The collection can be segmented into two main types: The first type comprises rent rolls of manorial properties, bailiwicks (“Vogteien”) and other territorial requirements, which register the dutiable subjects in the county. The second type consists of different registers which contain annual accounts of duties. The duties which had to be paid were money or natural goods. Furthermore, this collection also contains rent rolls about properties of other regional princes whose territories were later annexed to the County of Tyrol, such as Görz and the archbishopric of Salzburg. Additionally, there are a few rent rolls of Further Austrian territories, for example Vorarlberg. Within these rent rolls there is a well-preserved transcript of the so-called “Entire rent roll of Habsburg” (“Habsburgisches Gesamturbar”). This special rent roll was issued in the late 13th century and contains a register of all Habsburg properties in South Germany and Alsace. It was created to control the duties of these properties. (Cf. Franziska Hälg-Steffen, Habsburgisches Urbar, 2007, http://www.hls-dhs-dss.ch/textes/d/D8954.php) In addition, this collection includes some rent rolls of Inner Austria.
The whole collection is divided into several sections with subgroups: Section A deals with territorial bodies and court-dominions of the provinces or valleys of the County Tyrol, such as Vinschgau, Etschviertel, Oberinntal and Unterinntal etc. Section B includes rent rolls of Tyrolean dioceses, e.g. the bishoprics in Etschland, Eisacktal, Pustertal and Inntal etc. Section C contains rent rolls of churches, hospitals and congregations, such as rent rolls of the churches in Vinschgau, Etschland, Welsch-Tyrol, Eisacktal, Pustertal, Rattenberg and Steinach etc. Section D contains rent rolls of aristocrats of the Tyrolean provinces of Vinschgau, Etschland, Welsch-Tyrol, Eisacktal, Pustertal, Oberinntal, Wipptal and Unterinntal. Section E deals with territorial bodies and court-dominions of Further and Inner Austria, for example villages in Vorarlberg (Bludenz, Jagdberg (Feldkirch), Tosters (Neuburg am Rhein), Bregenz and Hohenegg etc.) and villages in Inner Austria, such as dominions in Styria, Carniola and Carinthia.
There are at least two known references to Jewish heritage in the collection. The first rent roll provides evidence of Jewish heritage in Bolzano in 1412. There are four Jewish houses mentioned in this document. The second record is a rent roll of the regional court Gries from 1458 which mentions the Jew Mosse (Moses) who had to pay a certain amount to lease a wine press in Bolzano. Both records show some detail about Jewish life in Bolzano. (Cf. Albrich (ed.), Jüdisches Leben im historischen Tirol, Vol. 1 Vom Mittelalter bis 1805, 39-40.) To find other relevant records it is necessary to know the names of individuals, as this collection is arranged according to regional courts or communities and has no subject indices or content registers.
- 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:
- Most of the rent rolls that are now located in the Tyrolean Archive were created by the administration office for rent rolls, which was connected to the regional courts of the Tyrolean provinces. These rent rolls were held for control purposes by the central authorities in Innsbruck, especially the Court Chamber, until they were delivered to the Treasury Archive in the 16th century. Some other rent rolls originate from regional judicial authorities as well as tax and fiscal authorities, monasteries and churches. Rent rolls of aristocratic dominions are rare in this collection. (Cf. Beimrohr, Das Tiroler Landesarchiv und seine Bestände, 60.)
- Subject terms:
- Financial records
- Real estate
- Trade and commerce
- System of arrangement:
- The collection is split into two main types and divided into different sections from A to E. The collection is arranged by regional courts or communities.
- Access, restrictions:
- Public access
- Finding aids:
- Finding aids: Rep. B 244 (Register, Index). Unlike most other collections in the Tyrolean Regional Archive, this collection is arranged according to regional courts or communities, which means it is essential to know the names of individuals for successful research.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Jewish Museum Hohenems
- Author of the description:
- Rebecca Muršec, June 2017