Metadata: Record series - Incoming records of higher Instances (Court decrees)
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:
- Älteres Gubernium - Aktenserie - Einlauf von oben - Hofdekrete
- Title:
- Record series - Incoming records of higher Instances (Court decrees)
- Title (official language):
- Aktenserie - Einlauf von oben - Hofdekrete
- Creator/accumulator:
- Older Gubernium
- Date(s):
- 1765/1783
- Language:
- German
- Extent:
- 226 fascicles (in the entire record series)
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
-
The collection “Incoming records of higher Instances” of the Older Gubernium, held by the Tyrolean regional archive of Innsbruck, is a non-Jewish collection with a significant number of Jewish-related documents. It covers the period 1765–83 and includes decrees and regulations of higher authorities in Vienna addressed to the Gubernium for execution. The original records were collected in the registry of the chamber, whereas the transcriptions of these documents were filed by date in the registry of the Gubernium. There are two parallel collections: “Minutes of the Gubernium – Court resolutions”, including short summaries of the content of the imperial decrees, and “Resolutions of the court” or “Business of the court” (q.v. number 66 in the Yerusha database), containing transcriptions of the records of this collection [q.v. Hölzl, Repertorium Nr. 203 – “Älteres Gubernium”. 1764–83, Innsbruck 1985, III-IV]. Repertories or finding aids to this collection are in the form of journals titled “Imperial resolutions” (“Journal Kaiserliche Resolutionen”) covering the period 1765–83. These finding aids and the repertory Rep. B 203 give an overview of the collection and its Jewish-related content. The journals are sorted by year and include alphabetical indexes and short summaries of files. There are Jewish-related references under I and Y, corresponding to short passages in the same books, which are sorted by date. The passages vary in length and give insights into Jewish life. The following is a selection of the relevant content.
The journal of 1783 refers to Jewish people in relation to tax resolutions concerning the calculation of Jewish contributions, Jewish children in the school system and expulsion and tolerance. General references include a passage dating of 6 March 1783 recording the decisions that German, Bohemian and Galician Jews were free to enter and leave Hungary. Foreign Jews, including children of all ages, had to pay a tax of one guilder. The journal of 1783 names Hendle, Lazarus and Gerson Uffenheimer, Moravia and the protected Jew (“Schutzjude”) Hertz Löw Lemle of Hohenems.
The book of 1782 contains resolutions about Jewish people’s eligibility to receive doctorates. Jews were permitted to qualify as doctors of law and medicine. There are also passages about tax matters and instructions concerning Jewish pupils who were educated in Latin schools or grammar schools. The same book mentions the businessman Gabriel Uffenheimer in relation to hawking by his Jewish attendants and contributions for living in Tyrol.
The book of 1771–72 mentions the Jew Norsa of Mantua and portrays him as dangerous due to his illegal recruitment of silk workers for the local East India Company. Another document deals with a Jewish gang who had stolen the Duchess of Liechtenstein’s jewellery in Laxenburg. There are complementary passages referring the content of this record in the minutes of the Gubernium (q.v. number 85 in the Yerusha database). The cartulary of 1769–70 also contains a longer passage about the contributions or taxes of Jewish people.
In general, the journals are aids to the records of this collection and are necessarily brief. For a more comprehensive perspective on Jewish life, the records themselves and the parallel collections Upper Austrian chamber – “Business of the court” (q.v. JMH-134 in the Yerusha database) and “Minutes of the Gubernium – Court resolutions” (q.v. finding aid/repertory B 203) should be consulted. One should also consider the counterpart collection “Outgoing records to the Court Chancellery” (q.v. JMH-151 in the Yerusha database). Journals can be ordered by noting the years of interest.
- 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 Gubernium was established in 1763 to replace the former authority “Repräsentation and Kammer” (Representation and chamber) established by Empress Maria Theresa in the administrative reforms of 1749. It was the highest authority of the general administration of Tyrol and, from 1782, Vorarlberg. It was subordinated to the central authorities of the Habsburg territories in Vienna. As well as general administration, the Gubernium was responsible for matters of religion, education and the policing of trade and security. From 1782, political matters and the political police, which had been responsibilities of the Gubernium, were assigned to the governor or rectorate. Related documents are “Records of the Presidium” (“Akten des Präsidiums”) and “Secret records of the Presidium” (“Geheime Präsidialakten”). In 1782 the Austrian Anterior and Superior Board of Appeal (“O. ö. und v. ö. Revisorium”) were separated from the Gubernium, meaning that the administration and the judiciary were treated separately at the state level. Between 1806 and 1814 the Gubernium did not operate due to the Bavarian domination of Tyrol. In 1814, administrative responsibilities were reassigned to the Gubernium. In 1850 the Gubernium was superseded by the new authority “Governor’s Office for Tyrol and Vorarlberg” (“Statthalterei für Tirol und Vorarlberg”) [q.v. Beimrohr, Das Tiroler Landesarchiv und seine Bestände, 92].
- Access points: persons/families:
- Norsa of Mantua
- Uffenheimer family
- System of arrangement:
- The original records were collected in the registry of the Chamber, but the transcriptions of these documents were arranged in chronological order in the registry of the Gubernium.
- Access, restrictions:
- The collection is publicly accessible.
- Finding aids:
- Rep. B 203, Journal imperial resolutions from 1765-1783
- Yerusha Network member:
- Jewish Museum Hohenems
- Author of the description:
- Rebecca Muršec; Tyrolean Regional Archive Innsbruck; 2018
