Metadata: Administrative Archives from 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:
- BB
- Title:
- Administrative Archives from 1831
- Title (official language):
- Verwaltungsarchive ab 1831
- Date(s):
- 1685/1799
- Language:
- German
- Extent:
- Around 6 shelf metres
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
-
This collection contains numerous files with Jewish references from the holdings of the General Secretariat of the Directorate of Justice, the Municipal and Church Directorate (BB 03), the Secretariat of the Police Directorate (4.1.), the University Archive of the Directorate of Education (05) and the School System Division (BB IIIb).
The majority of the files date from the 1990s and deal with a law on the public recognition of Jewish communities, an ordinance on the remuneration of clergymen in the Jewish communities of the Canton of Bern and an amendment to the statutes of the Jewish Community of Bern (2004). The collection also includes several files from the 1940s and 1950s. Among other things, there is a survey from 1947 on the Association of Jewish Students in Switzerland as well as a 1948 permit for them to collect money for the benefit of Jewish students in war-affected countries. There is another file on the Association from the years 1953/1954, and there is also a volume on ‘Israelites’ and schools covering the period from 1890 to 1915.
[BB 03.1.1558; BB 03.1.2241; BB 03.3.7506; BB 03.4.320; BB 03.7.727 K; BB 03.7.728 K; BB 03.7.552 Nr. 138; BB 03.7.755 A; BB 4.1.2515; BB 4.1.2592; BB 05.10.166; BB IIIb 270]
- Archival history:
- The Administration‘s documents were gradually transferred to the State Archive during the 19th and 20th centuries.
- 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.
- Access points: locations:
- Bern
- Switzerland
- 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