Metadata: State Collections, Government and Administration, HK Chamber of Commerce
Collection
- Country:
- Switzerland
- Holding institution:
- State Archives of Luzern
- Holding institution (official language):
- Staatsarchiv Luzern
- Postal address:
- Schützenstrasse 9, CH-6000 Luzern
- Phone number:
- +41 41 228 53 65
- Web address:
- https://staatsarchiv.lu.ch/
- Email:
- staatsarchiv@lu.ch
- Reference number:
- HK
- Title:
- State Collections, Government and Administration, HK Chamber of Commerce
- Title (official language):
- Staatliche Bestände, Regierung und Verwaltung, HK Handelskammer
- Creator/accumulator:
- Canton of Lucerne
- Date(s):
- 1817/1870
- Language:
- German
- Extent:
- 4 shelf metres
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
- The State Collections include a sub-division Government and Administration, in which the further sub-division Chamber of Commerce contains a file with various documents concerning peddling, between 1800 and 1872. Regarding Jews, there are several documents regulating the peddling of Jews at the markets in Richensee and Sursee in 1817 and in Lucerne in 1870. [HK 62]
- Archival history:
- Most of the documents of this collection were probably transferred to the State Archive gradually.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- The oldest documents of the State Archive date back to the 9th century, in transcripts from around 1150. The holdings of the archive can be divided into four groups: the administrative records of the city of Lucerne from the 13th to the 18th century, the documents of the cantonal administration and courts since 1798, the archives of the monasteries dissolved in the 19th century and the archives of private persons and institutions such as associations, political parties and industrial or commercial enterprises.
- Subject terms:
- Trade and commerce
- Finding aids:
- An online finding aid is available, although the information is often rudimentary.
- Links to finding aids:
- https://query-staatsarchiv.lu.ch/volltextsuche.aspx
- Yerusha Network member:
- Jewish Museum Hohenems
- Author of the description:
- Severin Holzknecht; Jewish Museum of Hohenems; 2020