Metadata: Administrative Archives until 1831
Collection
- Country:
- Switzerland
- Holding institution:
- State Archive of Bern
- Holding institution (official language):
- Staatsarchiv Bern
- Postal address:
- Falkenplatz 4, CH-3001 Bern
- Phone number:
- +41 31 633 51 01
- Email:
- info.stab@sta.be.ch
- Reference number:
- B III; B V; B XI
- Title:
- Administrative Archives until 1831
- Title (official language):
- Verwaltungsarchive bis 1831
- Date(s):
- 1622/1799
- Language:
- German
- Extent:
- 766 shelf metres
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
- The Administrative Archives contain files from the departments “Former Church Archive“ (B III), “Trade, Industry and Commerce“ (B V) and “Medical Services“ (B XI), which is of interest from a Jewish point of view. The bundle Decreta Et Mandata Ecclesiastica (Decrees and Mandates to the Church Conventions) covers the period between 1622 and 1727. It contains a file on the son of the pastor Andreas Rossele, who was accused of murdering a Jew in Amsterdam in 1685. There is also a list of the Jews who received a permit to trade in tobacco and of the permits granted since 1780. An act from 1777/1778 reports a plague brought to Vellheim in Swabia by Polish Jews. [B III 115; B V 99; B XI 169]
- Archival history:
- This collection has been in the State Archive since the foundation of the Archive.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- The State Archive of Bern is the repository of all state archival holdings worthy of preservation. Since the 15th century, the Bernese archives have been housed in the vaults of the town hall. In 1713 a permanent archive commission was set up. The archives of the perished city and Republic of Bern went to the newly created Canton of Bern in 1803, and partly to the Cantons of Aargau and Vaud. Until 1891, the administration of the National Archive was the responsibility of the respective state scribe.
- Finding aids:
- An online finding aid is available, although the information is often rudimentary.
- Links to finding aids:
- https://www.query.sta.be.ch/suchinfo.aspx
- Yerusha Network member:
- Jewish Museum Hohenems
- Author of the description:
- Severin Holzknecht; Jewish Museum of Hohenems; 2020
