Metadata: Old Archive
Collection
- Country:
- Switzerland
- Holding institution (official language):
- Staatsarchiv Basel Landschaft
- Postal address:
- Wiedenhubstrasse 35, CH-4410 Liestal
- Phone number:
- +41 61 267 86 01
- Email:
- staatsarchiv@bl.ch
- Reference number:
- AA
- Title:
- Old Archive
- Title (official language):
- Altes Archiv
- Creator/accumulator:
- Canton of Basel-Landschaft
- Date(s):
- 1239/1832
- Language:
- German
- Extent:
- 265.1 shelf metres
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
-
The collection contains documents on Basel-Landschaft from 1239 to 1832, with some documents of particular interest from a Jewish perspective.
Among other things, the collection contains a document from 1463 that relates to a manslaughter in the village of Arlesheim by bailiff Conrad Egerchinger zu Arlesheim. He issued a document with the approval of the Bishop of Basel and Heinrich Reich von Reichenstein. The latter two brought the following case to court: Hans Jerling of Arlesheim killed a Jew called Meygerly. The question now was who was to judge the manslaughter and who had the right to the corpse and the estate of the Jew.
The collection also contains documents concerning trade conducted by Jews, such as an episcopal decree on the trade conducted by Jews from the second half of the 18th century. There are also sources on the baptism of the Jew Moses of Arlesheim (1610) and the departure of a Jew from Allschwil without paying the the levy (1612).
In addition, there are some other documents concerning legal disputes. For example, the civil proceedings of Jakob Ettlin, a miller in Allschwil, against the Jew Jäcklin Schwab of Dornachbrugg, for defamation in 1664. Another example is the civil case of Georg Gutzwiller from Therwil against the Jew Leman of Nieder-Hagenthal for kidnapping two horses at the market in Altkirch in 1743, or the civil case of Elias Levi of Hegenheim against Joseph Ettlin and his father-in-law Hans Ulrich Werdenberg of Allschwil for debts in connection with the purchase of a horse in 1756.
Several other documents are also found in the collection, such as witness statements and pronouncements of judgement in cases of transfer of property, inheritance, bodily injury and defamation, debts etc. Among others there is a case of N Leu, a Jew from Arlesheim, against Peter Trostberger of Ettingen for buying a horse, and Urs Schmidlin of Arlesheim against the widow of Leu in the same matter. There are also documents concerning disputes in the horse trade. For example, there are documents concerning the dispute over horse trading between Franz Peter Lehenmüller of Arlesheim with Isac Levi of Hegenheim and Schwartz of Blotzheim from 1757.
[AA 1001 0498; AA 1010 0048; AA 1010 0611; AA 1010 0616; AA 1010 0630; AA 1010 0632; AA 1010 0633; AA 1010 0641; AA 1010 0651; AA 1010 0671; AA 1020 01.01.01]
- Archival history:
- The collection has been in the State Archive since the foundation of the Archive.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- With the separation of the cantons in 1833, the holdings of the Basel State Archive was also divided between the two half-cantons as part of the common state property. Negotiations on the division of the archives lasted until the summer of 1834. Between 1911 and 1927 the files from 1832 onwards were reorganised, thus creating the so-called "Newer Archives". A new set of archive regulations consolidated this new order in 1926.
- Access points: locations:
- Basel
- Subject terms:
- Conversion to Christianity
- Crime
- Legal matters
- Trade and commerce
- Finding aids:
- An online finding aid is available, although the information is often rudimentary.
- Links to finding aids:
- https://archivkatalog.bl.ch/main/index.html#
- Yerusha Network member:
- Jewish Museum Hohenems
- Author of the description:
- Severin Holzknecht; Jewish Museum of Hohenems; 2020