Metadata: District and Landgravate (1460-1798), County Chancellery – General Files
Collection
- Country:
- Switzerland
- Holding institution:
- State Archive of Thurgau
- Holding institution (official language):
- Staatsarchiv Thurgau
- Postal address:
- Zürcherstraße 221, CH-8510 Frauenfeld
- Phone number:
- +41 58 345 16 00
- Web address:
- https://staatsarchiv.tg.ch/
- Email:
- staatsarchiv@tg.ch
- Reference number:
- 0'0
- Title:
- District and Landgravate (1460-1798), County Chancellery – General Files
- Title (official language):
- Landvogtei und Landgrafschaft (1460-1798), Landkanzlei – Allgemeine Akten
- Creator/accumulator:
- County Chancellery of Thurgau
- Date(s):
- 1772/1795
- Language:
- German
- Extent:
- 37 shelf metres
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
-
The collection District and Landgraviate contains numerous documents from the period between 1460 and 1798, while the sub-division County Chancellery contains several files in the section General Files from the period between 1713 and 1797 which are of interest from a Jewish perspective. These include a file from 1772 which reports that the Oberamt in Stockach denied the extradition of the Jew Bernhard Wolf of Wangen, who was to be prosecuted for selling meat in Thurgau. A file from 1780 reports how the Imperial and Royal Administration in Bregenz taxed the Hohenems Jews connected to Thurgau. In 1784, a file includes a witness statement about a Jewish market thief in Konstanz. In 1786, a file deals with a Jewish street thief in Feldkirch, Austria. From 1791/1792, there is a file in this collection which deals with the unlawful appropriation of the property of Veit Guggenheim from Worblingen by the town clerk of Güttingen. A file from 1795 contains a legal dispute between the Jew Manes Wolf of Wangen and Maria Huber of Horben.
[0’02'7, XXIX/7; 0'02'12, XL/6; 0'02'16, XLVIII/14; 0'02'17, LI/11; 0'02'21, LX/7; 0'02'24, LXVI/21]
- Archival history:
- The collection was probably part of the State Archive since its foundation.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- The State Archive is the archive of the Canton of Thurgau. It has existed since the foundation of the canton of Thurgau (2 March 1798).
- Access points: locations:
- Bregenz
- Feldkirch
- Frauenfeld
- Hohenems
- Thurgau
- Subject terms:
- Crime
- Legal matters
- Taxation
- Finding aids:
- An online finding aid is available, although the information is often rudimentary.
- Links to finding aids:
- https://query-staatsarchiv.tg.ch/volltextsuche.aspx
- Yerusha Network member:
- Jewish Museum Hohenems
- Author of the description:
- Severin Holzknecht; Jewish Museum of Hohenems; 2020