Metadata: Miscellanea
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:
- Tiroler Landschaft - Miscellanea
- Title:
- Miscellanea
- Title (official language):
- Miscellanea
- Creator/accumulator:
- Tyrolean Estates
- Date(s):
- 1295/1905
- Date note:
- ca. 1300/1900
- Language:
- German
- Extent:
- 21 boxed sets of books
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
-
The collection “Miscellanea”, held by the Tyrolean regional archive of Innsbruck, is a non-Jewish assemblage with a few Jewish-related documents.
This assemblage covers the period c.1300–1900 and contains continuously numbered records and transcribed deeds to subjects of the Tyrolean estates [q.v. Beimrohr, Das Tiroler Landesarchiv und seine Bestände, 288]. The records and deeds are collected in books sorted by boxed sets.
Repertories I/5 and B 634 should be consulted alongside this collection. Repertory B 634 is the general index containing current signatures. Repertory I/5 is the specific finding aid to this collection and contains at least one Jewish-related reference on pages 26–29 of volume 8 (signature: Schuber 835, Ordnungsnummer 1–10, Speicher 3.2.10).
Book 8 contains a regulation issued by Ferdinand I on 1 August 1551 concerning identification of Jewish people in the Habsburg territories by a sign in form of a yellow ring. Jewish people were made to wear a yellow scarf in public places such as villages and cities to distinguish them from Christians. If they disobeyed this regulation three times, they were permanently expelled from the Austrian territories along with their wives and children. They were not obliged to wear the signs while travelling through Austrian territories.
- 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 accumulator of this collection was the Tyrolean territorial estates (“Tiroler Landschaft”), a corporation consisting of the Tyrolean aristocracy and important economic cities established in opposition to their territorial lord. Important decisions, territorial matters and emergencies were discussed by the Tyrolean Serenity and the estates. The estates were a powerful counterpart to the territorial lord due to their financial and economic resources and political influence. During the Middle Ages, the estates were structured into four groups: the aristocracy; territorial cities and scattered markets; prelates; and judicial communities, which were mainly composed of peasants. These groups, along with the territorial Serenity, made up the Landtag. Only the territorial lord could convene the Landtag, which met irregularly in various locations. The lord used the assembly to voice his concerns, make financial demands and negotiate with the estates, who in turn made demands and complaints to the lord. The Landtag differed from the modern state parliament, as it lacked legislative power and control over the lord’s territorial governance. The estates reached their height of influence in the 15th and 16th centuries, after which their powers waned due to the increasing influence of the territorial lord and his administration. By the end of the 18th century the estates had lost all their power and influence [q.v. Beimrohr, Das Tiroler Landesarchiv und seine Bestände, 284–85].
- Access points: locations:
- Tyrol
- System of arrangement:
- The records are numbered consecutively.
- Access, restrictions:
- The collection is publicly accessible.
- Finding aids:
- Rep. I/15; Rep. B 634
- Yerusha Network member:
- Jewish Museum Hohenems
- Author of the description:
- Rebecca Muršec; Tyrolean Regional Archive Innsbruck; 2018