Metadata: Old Main Archive, C Documents – C II Monastic Offices
Collection
- Country:
- Switzerland
- Holding institution:
- State Archive of Zurich
- Holding institution (official language):
- Staatsarchiv Zürich
- Postal address:
- Winterthurerstrasse 170, CH-8057 Zürich
- Phone number:
- +41 43 258 50 00
- Email:
- staatsarchivzh@ji.zh.ch
- Reference number:
- C II
- Title:
- Old Main Archive, C Documents – C II Monastic Offices
- Title (official language):
- Altes Hauptarchiv, C Urkunden – C II Klosterämter
- Date(s):
- 1345/1441
- Language:
- German
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
-
In the Old Main Archive of the State Archive of Zurich the section Documents contains numerous documents from the 9th to the 20th century. The section Monastic Offices includes some documents of interest from a Jewish point of view, most of which concern legal transactions.
A document from 1346 reports on a legal transaction in which the monk and priest Rudolf the Jew was a witness. In the sub-division Konstanz a document from 1394 reports on a legal transaction and whose connection is reported by the bank of a Jew in Baden, which lent money to the buyer. The same or a different bank in Baden is also mentioned in a document from 1409.
In the holdings of the canon monastery of Embrach there is a document from 1385 in which the sexton Johann Anhuser and the chapter of the priory declare that they owe the Jew Eberhart von Gewile of Zurich five gold florins and five pounds 14 shillings of Zürcher Pfennig.
In the sub-division Winterthur there is a similar document from 1441 reports that a loan was taken out with a Jew not mentioned by name.
In the sub-division Spital there is a document from 1345 detailing that the abbess of the hospital made a house available to two caretakers. The house of the Jewish woman Sara was adjacent to the house. A document from 1350 reports on the sale of a house which was situated between the houses of the Jews Gumprecht and Moyses of Bern. A document from 1359 outlines the sale of a house which was adjacent to the house of the Jewish woman Minna.
In this section there are also some documents which mention auctions at which Jews occasionally appeared as buyers, for example in 1393, when Vifli (Vivelin) the Jew bought a property. The history of this property and of the Jew Vifli was also dealt with in other documents.
[C II 2, Nr. 187; C II 5, Nr. 36; C II 6, Nr. 1091; C II 6, Nr. 1102; C II 7, Nr. 53; C II 12, Nr. 230; C II 18, Nr. 282; C II 18, Nr. 329; C II 18, Nr. 378; C II 18, Nr. 510; C II 18, Nr. 540; C II 18, Nr. 573; C II 18, Nr. 574; C II 18, Nr. 607]
- Archival history:
- The collection was probably part of the State Archive since its foundation.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- The State Archive of Zurich is the archive of the Swiss Canton of Zurich and its legal predecessors, in particular the City State of Zurich. The historical holdings of the State Archive date back to the year 853 - the founding charter of the Fraumünster is the oldest surviving document - and have a significance that extends far beyond the canton. The continuity of tradition is considered remarkable, thanks to the absence of major catastrophes and wars. For example, the series of governmental minutes (Small Council and Grand Council), with few gaps, dates back to the early 14th century. The more recent holdings of the Canton of Zurich (since 1831) form the bulk of the archive holdings in terms of quantity, comprising some 30 kilometres of files and documents, to which a few terabytes of electronic data material are added.
- Access points: locations:
- Baden
- Winterthur
- Zurich
- Access points: persons/families:
- Abraham
- Subject terms:
- Financial matters
- Financial matters--Moneylending
- Legal matters
- Real estate
- Finding aids:
- An online finding aid is available, although the information is often rudimentary.
- Links to finding aids:
- https://suche.staatsarchiv.djiktzh.ch/volltextsuche.aspx
- Yerusha Network member:
- Jewish Museum Hohenems
- Author of the description:
- Severin Holzknecht; Jewish Museum of Hohenems; 2020
