Metadata: Old Main Archive, C Documents – C III Secular Offices and Bailiwicks
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 III
- Title:
- Old Main Archive, C Documents – C III Secular Offices and Bailiwicks
- Title (official language):
- Altes Hauptarchiv, C Urkunden – C III Weltliche Ämter und Vogteien
- Creator/accumulator:
- Administration of Zurich
- Date(s):
- 1432/1439
- 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 “Secular Offices and Bailiwicks“ includes the holdings of the Seckelamt (treasury). They contain two documents of interest from a Jewish perspective. One document from 1432 reports that Bilgeri von Heudorf of Küssaberg and Hans Heggenzi of Schaffhausen owed Salomon, a Jew and citizen of Zurich, 27 Rhenish florins he had lent them in cash. There is also a document from 1439, which details that Heinrich Obrist, a citizen of Zurich owed the Jew Löw of Schaffhausen 370 Rhenish gold florins he had lent him in cash. [C III 22, Nr. 19; C III 22, Nr. 27]
- 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:
- Schaffhausen
- Zurich
- Access points: persons/families:
- Salomon
- Subject terms:
- Financial matters
- Financial matters--Moneylending
- 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
