Metadata: Cartulary series - Announcements and Orders
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:
- Oberösterreichische Kammer - Kopialbuchserie Entbieten und Befelch
- Title:
- Cartulary series - Announcements and Orders
- Title (official language):
- Kopialbuchserie Entbieten und Befelch
- Creator/accumulator:
- Upper Austrian Chamber
- Date(s):
- 1496/1771
- Language:
- German
- Extent:
- 292 volumes/books
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
-
The series “Upper Austrian Chamber – Cartulary series – Announcements and Orders”, held by the Tyrolean regional archive of Innsbruck, is a non-Jewish collection with several Jewish-related documents.
This collection covers the period 1496–1771 and includes transcribed records of the parallel collection “Upper Austrian Chamber – Records – Outgoing Announcements and Orders” (“Aufslauf-Entbieten und Befelch”). It contains correspondence between bodies such as the Upper Austrian chamber and the Upper Austrian government. Documents addressed to subordinate offices are collected in the cartulary series “General Missives” [q.v. Beimrohr, Das Tiroler Landesarchiv und seine Bestände, 80]. The “Announcements and Orders” files include mandates, edicts, instructions, regulations and contracts. Some of the original collection’s files have been lost, making this cartulary series a very important addition.
Jewish-related material, in the form of records of Jewish business and their financial transactions, costs, fees, loans and debts, may be found in almost every book and are clearly declared and explained. Jewish people, mentioned between c.1585 and c.1600, are Samuel and Leo of Günzburg (Swabia/Bavaria), Simon of Burgau (Augsburg/Bavaria) and his three sons Lemblin, Lasarus and Jacob, Moyses Pacher and the businessman Samuel May of Innsbruck. Overall, the fiscal records give an important insight into the business life of Jewish people in association with the chamber, showing details of the amounts of money lent, calculated interest and cash payments, trading goods and conditions and profiteering. Records from 1588 mention the Jewish businessmen Samuel and Leo of Günzburg in association with loans to private citizens: Bernhard Wolf Rechlinger borrowed 15,000 guilders Samuel and Leo, but 5,000 guilders were outstanding. A new loan of 5,000 guilders was arranged and the chamber transacted the obligation.
These documents demonstrate the responsibilities of the Upper Austrian chamber. In this case, the chamber created the basic conditions for the loan between the creditor and debtor in the form of a contract between the parties. The chamber was not only responsible for bigger transactions of the Serenity, but also acted as a controlling and administrative instance in all fiscal matters of the Serenity’s surroundings.
A record of 1587 deals with the expulsion of the sons of Simon of Burgau, named Lemblin, Lasarus and Jacob. Simon had died, and it was not common to inherit the privileges of a dead relative, so his three sons asked the authority to extend their father’s privileges to them, and their request was granted.
Documents concerning Samuel May give an insight into his trading business. One, issued on 3 November 1589, deals with trading goods seized by the municipal court, consisting of six pieces of velvet and two pieces of “Schamlott”, a fabric made of camel hair. Samuel May wanted to sell them at the market in Hall (a city close to Innsbruck) and had to pay a fee to get his goods back. The goods were weighed to determine the amount of the fee. Another record from 1595 concerning Samuel May is about loans and debts, in which he appears as a creditor.
Documents from 1594 refer to the tax determination concerning Jewish people in Burgau to sustain the financial resources for the Turkish Wars. This regulation concerned all living Jewish people in the Margraviate of Burgau.
Two other fiscal records from 1595 concerning the Jew Fabian of Telfan (Valsugana) deal with his expulsion from Tyrol due to his business’s association with profiteering (“Wucherei).
Earlier cartularies contain more references and transcribed records concerning Jewish people than later ones. The general catalogue to this assemblage is B51 (general index), but it is preferable to use the cartularies, as each book has an alphabetical index, containing Jewish references under I, J and Y. The cartularies are books containing transcriptions of original records. This collection is the counterpart of the record series “Outgoing Announcements and Orders”. The books may be ordered by indicating the name of the collection and the years of interest.
To construct an overview of Jews and their lives and early “communities”, the records of each series or collection should be combined with those of their counterparts and records of similar assemblages to understand the progression of a decision [q.v. Hölzl, Repertorium Nr. 203 – “Älteres Gubernium”. 1764–1783, Innsbruck 1985, V]. This also applies to other collections of the general administration.
- Archival history:
- This collection was transferred to the Tyrolean Regional Archive according to the regular document transfer process stipulated by national archival regulations.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- The creator of this collection was the Upper Austrian chamber, a stable commission established in 1493. This authority was responsible for the territorial fiscal administration of the county of Tyrol and Anterior Austria. Its counterpart was the Upper Austrian government, which was equivalent to the chamber and was responsible for the inner administration and judiciary of Tyrol and Further Austria. Both authorities were later subordinated to the Privy Council, which was established in the late 16th century, and subsequently to the Second Privy Council. In the administrative reformation of 1749, the Upper Austrian chamber was incorporated into the new comprehensive administration authority for Tyrol and Anterior Austria, “Repräsentation und Kammer” (Representation and Chamber), founded by Empress Maria Theresa. The jurisdiction of the Upper Austrian government also shifted to this new authority for general administration. The traditional Upper Austrian chamber and the Second Privy Council no longer existed after Maria Theresa’s reformation. [q.v. Beimrohr, Das Tiroler Landesarchiv und seine Bestände, 78.]
- Access points: persons/families:
- Fabian of Telfan
- Leo of Günzburg
- May, Samuel
- Pacher, Moyses
- Samuel of Günzburg
- Simon of Burgau
- System of arrangement:
- The collection is arranged into book-like cartularies with alphabetical indexes.
- Access, restrictions:
- The collection is publicly accessible.
- Finding aids:
- Rep. B 51 (Index), volume indices
- Yerusha Network member:
- Jewish Museum Hohenems
- Author of the description:
- Rebecca Muršec; Tyrolean Regional Archive Innsbruck; 2018
