Metadata: Traveller’s resolutions
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:
- Oberösterreichischer Geheimer Rat - Reiseresolutionen
- Title:
- Traveller’s resolutions
- Title (official language):
- Reiseresolutionen
- Creator/accumulator:
- Upper Austrian (Second) Privy Council
- Date(s):
- 1616/1632
- Language:
- German
- Extent:
- 16 volumes/books
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
-
The collection “Traveller’s decisions” (“Reiseresolutionen) of the Privy Council, held by the Tyrolean regional archive of Innsbruck, is a non-Jewish assemblage with various Jewish-related documents. The collection covers the period 1616–1632 and is composed of 16 regularly created cartularies for each year, including original or transcribed documents issued by the absent Serenity and addressed to the Upper Austrian Second Privy Council [q.v. Beimrohr, Das Tiroler Landesarchiv und seine Bestände, 89; q.v. Rep. B. 701/8]. These documents are orders and decisions of Archduke Leopold V of Tyrol (1586–1632), who was travelling and not present in Innsbruck at the time. The correspondence discusses measures concerning Jewish people, such as a record of 10 December 1620 stating that Abraham and Samuel, the sons of the deceased Marx May, were to have their privileges and liberties confirmed. Gerson of Bolzano is also mentioned, but did not have his privileges extended, though the reason for the decision is not recorded. Another record of 1624 states that Jewish people in Burgau (Swabia) and Hagenau, Alsace, were to pay such duties as the “Kronsteuer” and the “Opferpfennig”. This short passage does not include further details or explanations. The collection also contains a document issued by Leopold on 3 June 1625 in which the Jewish people of Irmatshofen (Markt Wald in Unterallgäu/Swabia) are mentioned in matters of taxes. The order concerning Jewish taxes was to be conveyed to the offices in Irmatshofen, with the decision to take 300 guilders from the Jewish people as a protection fee (“Schutzgeld”, “Schirmgeld”) the next time their fees were calculated.
The supplementary tax (“Nachsteuer”, “Abzugsgeld”) was another form of capital tax which was commonly collected from Jewish people in Irmatshofen and other Austrian territories. It is stated that Archduke Leopold considered expelling the local Jewish people from Irmatshofen due to their Jewish business. It was claimed that they practised usury or profiteering, which would damage the trade of the local subjects. It can be assumed that the expulsion did not occur.
Each cartulary has an alphabetical index, containing Jewish references under I, J and Y, and can be ordered by specifying the required dates. For an overview of the content, they should be considered alongside their counterpart collection and other collections of the Second Privy Council.
- 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 Privy Council established by Archduke Ferdinand II of Tyrol in c.1564 was succeeded by the Second Privy Council, which was established in Innsbruck in the early 17th century with the assistance of Maximilian III, the governor of Tyrol and Anterior Austria from 1602–1619. Like the earlier Privy Council, this commission of loyal councillors was the highest administration and judiciary authority in Tyrol and Anterior Austria until 1749. The Upper Austrian government as administrative body and the chamber for financial matters were subordinated to this commission. In 1749, the administrative triad of Privy Council, government and chamber was abolished in the administrative reforms of Maria Theresa and replaced by the comprehensive authority “Repräsentation und Kammer” (Representation and chamber) [q.v. Beimrohr, Das Tiroler Landesarchiv und seine Bestände, 88–89; q.v. Repertory B. 701/8].
- Access points: locations:
- Bolzano
- Innsbruck
- Irmatshofen
- Swabia
- Upper Austria
- Access points: persons/families:
- Gerson of Bolzano
- May family
- Subject terms:
- Correspondence
- Expulsion
- Legal matters
- Privileges
- System of arrangement:
- The collection is composed of 16 regularly created cartularies for each year, including original and/or transcribed documents.
- Access, restrictions:
- The collection is publicly accessible.
- Finding aids:
- Rep. B 701/8
- Yerusha Network member:
- Jewish Museum Hohenems
- Author of the description:
- Rebecca Muršec; Tyrolean Regional Archive Innsbruck; 2018
