Metadata: Territorial Progress in Innsbruck - Record series (younger) Provinces
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 - Landschaftliche Aktivität zu Innsbruck - Aktenerie (jüngere) Provinciale
- Title:
- Territorial Progress in Innsbruck - Record series (younger) Provinces
- Title (official language):
- Landschaftliche Aktivität zu Innsbruck - Aktenerie (jüngere) Provinciale
- Creator/accumulator:
- Tyrolean Estates
- Date(s):
- 1789/1860
- Language:
- German
- Extent:
- 671 boxed sets
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
-
The collection “Record series Provinces” or “Younger Provinces”, held by the Tyrolean regional archive of Innsbruck, is a non-Jewish assemblage with a few Jewish-related documents.
The collection covers the period 1789–1860, is structured chronologically and numerically and deals with political and administrative matters of the Tyrolean territorial estates. The records are sorted into annually created boxed sets, in which the upper numbers of the records relate to the entries and references in the indexes to this collection. There are five indexes, located in boxed sets 20, 26, 69, 85 and 100 [q.v. Repertorium 634, 22–23], of which index 85contains one Jewish-related reference, whose record, with file number 1810, can be found in boxed set 95. The record, issued on 20 September 1794, is a meeting minute dealing with Jewish pedlars. To work legally as a pedlar, it was necessary to obtain a permit. In general, Jewish people with permits could instruct attendants to hawk for them. The authorities of Tyrol were instructed to look for and punish Jewish pedlars without permits.
- 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].
- Subject terms:
- Law enforcement
- Trade and commerce
- System of arrangement:
- The records in this collection are arranged in numerical order and combined in boxed sets by year.
- Access, restrictions:
- The collection is publicly accessible.
- Finding aids:
- Journals 1787-1860; Rep. B 634
- Yerusha Network member:
- Jewish Museum Hohenems
- Author of the description:
- Rebecca Muršec; Tyrolean Regional Archive Innsbruck; 2018
