Metadata: Departments and Directorates - Department of Home Affairs
Collection
- Country:
- Switzerland
- Holding institution:
- State Archive of Aargau
- Holding institution (official language):
- Staatsarchiv Aargau
- Postal address:
- Entfelderstrasse 22, CH-5001 Aarau
- Phone number:
- +41 62 835 12 90
- Email:
- staatsarchiv@ag.ch
- Reference number:
- DIA
- Title:
- Departments and Directorates - Department of Home Affairs
- Title (official language):
- Departemente und Direktionen – Departement des Innern
- Creator/accumulator:
- Department of Home Affairs, Canton of Aargau
- Date(s):
- 1811/1888
- Language:
- German
- Extent:
- 89 shelf metres
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
-
This collection contains the official documents of the Cantonal Department of the Interior. In terms of Jewish history, it contains several interesting items. These include extracts from the Minutes of the Small Council (Kleiner Rat) and reports on permits for houses and taverns to, among others, Samuel Isaak Bollag of Oberendingen (1828) and a file on the return of a silver watch (repeater watch worth 24 francs) that had been offered to Moses Marx Guggenheim in Lengnau by an unknown person (1840).
The collection also contains some interesting documents on the Jewish community of Endingen (1853-1873), including the community administration, the charitable foundations, and the complaints regarding the synagogue fund account. Similar documents can also be found on the Jewish Community of Lengnau.
However, the most important collection is probably the series “Jews (1823-1863)“, which comprises 20 files and contains comprehensive sources on the Jewish communities in Lengnau and Endingen. Among other things, the series includes a reference to the two rabbis of the Jewish Communities of Endingen and Lengnau for inadequate maintenance of the registers of births, marriages and deaths, documents about a refused settlement for Philippe Jeidel, a businessman from Oberendingen who was unable to write, and a letter concerning the renewal of the concessions for pinschers in the district of Zurzach (list of pubs per community with name and house number).
In addition, the series includes items on the marriage applications of Moses Kain Guggenheim and Samuel Hirschel Guggenheim of Lengnau, on the election of the Jewish leaders in Lengnau and Endingen, a letter of petition from Joseph Guggenheim and Michael Dreifuss of Lengnau and Endingen to investigate the Jewish foundation funds and the tax system. The series also includes the request for marriage of Heinrich Guggenheim of Lengnau, another request for a residence concession in Endingen, a request for a home permit for Raphael Bolag of Oberendingen, and a request by Samuel Bolag for permission to marry Rebeka Beyerli. In addition, the series includes a petition by the Jewish leaders of Endingen and Lengnau concerning the lifting of the ban on selling at public markets in Uri, Schwyz, Lucerne and Zug, as well as documents concerning the disputed election of the municipal clerk in Lengnau. There is also a request for support from Benedict and Seligmann Levi as well as a document concerning the investigation of the mayor's register of Lengnau by the Zurzach district authority and a document concerning the presentation of the Jewish leadership of Oberendingen against the marriage of Marx Bolag to Juditha Braunschweig.
[DIA01/0023/12; DIA.A/0031/11; DIA01/0037/01; DIA01/0037/02; DIA01/0037/02; DIA01/0037/04; DIA01/0037/05; DIA01/0037/06; DIA01/0037/07; DIA01/0037/08; DIA01/0037/09; DIA01/0037/10; DIA01/0037/11; DIA01/0037/12; DIA01/0037/13; DIA01/0037/14; DIA01/0037/15; DIA01/0037/16; DIA01/0037/17; DIA01/0037/18; DIA01/0037/19; DIA01/0037/20; DIA02/0452; DIA02/0454]
- Archival history:
- The Department's documents are gradually being transferred to the State Archive.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- After the foundation of the Canton of Aargau in 1803, the Registrar of the State Chancellery in Aarau was responsible for organising and archiving the files produced by the new legislative and executive authorities. In the early years, these were housed in one of the lower rooms of the old town hall, which had been made available to the cantonal government by the Helvetic authorities. In the 1820s the archive moved to the new government building in the front suburb. In 1959, the State Archive and the Cantonal Library moved into a new building designed especially for them. The organisational separation of the two institutions in 1967 was also spatially completed in 1998 when the State Archive moved to the new Buchenhof administration building. The move to the new building brought about a marked improvement in internal operational processes. The archive users have a modern and purpose-oriented working environment in the Buchenhof.
- Subject terms:
- Jewish community
- Marriage and divorce
- Rabbis
- Finding aids:
- An online finding aid is available, although the information is often rudimentary.
- Links to finding aids:
- https://www.ag.ch/staatsarchiv/suche/suchinfo.aspx
- Yerusha Network member:
- Jewish Museum Hohenems
- Author of the description:
- Severin Holzknecht; Jewish Museum of Hohenems; 2020