Metadata: Old Main Archive, C Documents – C IV Parchment documents removed from File A and Documents detached from bindings
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 IV
- Title:
- Old Main Archive, C Documents – C IV Parchment documents removed from File A and Documents detached from bindings
- Title (official language):
- Altes Hauptarchiv, C Urkunden – C IV Aus Aktenbestand A ausgeschiedene Pergamenturkunden sowie von Einbänden abgelöste Urkunden
- Creator/accumulator:
- Administration of Zurich
- Date(s):
- 1416/1441
- 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 “Parchment documents removed from file A and documents detached from bindings“ contains numerous documents that are of interest from a Jewish point of view. Most of the documents concern legal transactions.
In the sub-division “Hegi, Horgen“ a document from 1429 details how the mayors, councillors and guild masters of the City of Zurich documented that the Jew Loew of Konstanz sold several estates to the mayor of Zurich, Jacob Glenter. “Private Documents“ contain several documents of interest. One of them dates from 1439 and reports that Heudorf, his brother-in-law Martin von Landenberg and Cuonratt von Tuffen recorded that they owed the Jew Loew, son of the Jew Salmon of Rheinfelden and citizen of Schaffhausen, 150 Rhenish florins he had lent them in cash. A document from 1441 reveals how the Schultheiss and council of Winterthur issued a vidimus to the Jewess Jurissinen, the widow of the Jew Loew of Schaffhausen.
The collection “Other Cantons and Foreign Communities“ also contains a document from 1425, which reports how Cuonrat Uffhofer, a land judge in Kleggow sat in public in court in Schaffhausen instead of Landgrave Ruodolf von Sultz. Among other things, it exhibits a vidimus that also applies to Salman Jud of Konstanz, a citizen of Zurich, who was summoned to appear in court by Peter Vogler of Zell. Upon the court's decision, Vogler must present any claims against the Jew in Zurich. The other document from the year 1416 reports from Johann Tachelshofen, Schultheiss of Mellingen, who sat at court and recorded that Hans Stoerr of Hals had been imprisoned for a long time by the Schultheiss and council of Mellingen because he had wounded and almost killed the Jew Maennli, citizen of Mellingen, in his house with a knife and the latter no longer felt safe. Stoerr swore to renounce the feud and assured Zurich, its confederates, Mellingen and the Jew Maennli as well as his wife Guetli of friendship. [C IV 1.4, Nr. 7; C IV 6.5; C IV 7.1]
- 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:
- Zurich
- Subject terms:
- Crime
- Financial matters
- Financial matters--Moneylending
- Legal matters
- 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