Metadata: Non-Governmental Provenances, Associations, Clubs and Societies, Antiquarian Society Zurich AGZ – Collection of Documents
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:
- W I and W II
- Title:
- Non-Governmental Provenances, Associations, Clubs and Societies, Antiquarian Society Zurich AGZ – Collection of Documents
- Title (official language):
- Nichtstaatliche Provenienzen, Verbände, Vereine und Gesellschaften, Antiquarische Gesellschaft Zürich AGZ – Urkundensammlung
- Creator/accumulator:
- Antiquarian Society Zurich
- Date(s):
- 1391/1972
- Language:
- German
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
-
The Non-Governmental Provenances in the State Archive of Zurich contain documents from the 5th to the 21st century. There are holdings from associations, societies and the like. The document collection of the Antiquarian Society of Zurich (AGZ) contains numerous files that are relevant from a Jewish perspective.
From 1391 there exists a document in which the mayor, council and guild mayor of the city of Zurich recorded that the rights of Ital Maness to vines in Beggenhofen were seized because of monetary debts and were then auctioned off. On the Gant, the Zurich citizen Abraham the Jew of Visu, as the highest bidder, acquired the vines for 30 gold florins, whereby he set this sum off against Maness's monetary debt.
Also from 1391, another document reports, as Cuonrat von Sal, Schultheiss of Winterthur, recorded, that Margeretha von Gachnang, widow of Hans von Gachnang (with her uncle Hartman von Rumlang as legal adviser), and her children Walther, Gretta and Anna von Gachnang (with Walther von Gachnang, her cousin, as legal counsel) ceded a farm at Sultzberg, which was managed by the Randegger, to David the Jew, citizen of Winterthur. This was after David the Jew had legally proven his claim to the farm to settle a sum of money owed to him by the children of Gachnang before the Regional Court in Thurgau.
A document from the year 1405 reports how Rudolf Kilchmatter, citizen of Zurich, documented that he owed Haennlin Jud, citizen of Zurich and wife of the deceased Smar Jud, 18 old Rhenish gold florins. From 1423 there is a document which reports how the mayor, council and guild master of the city of Zurich recorded that the Jew Selig – for himself and Jsrahel Jud - and the Jew Johenan, all three citizens of Zurich, owed 140 gold florin to the town clerk, Johann Kneller Haus, Hofstatt and Höfli called the Judenschuol in the larger city jn the Brunngasse, a free property, which bordered the house of the Zurich citizen Johann Vink, the alley between the Haus zur Schuol and the Haus der von Kloten, the street and the brook.
The collection also contains numerous files with copies of texts, documents and books from the 19th and 20th centuries on the history of the Jews in Switzerland, the Swiss cantons, Swiss communities and neighbouring areas such as Alsace. There are also various files on the history of the Yiddish language and a copy of the US-American television film “Holocaust“ from 1979.
[W I 1, Nr. 135; W I 1, Nr. 207; W I 1, Nr. 630; W I 1, Nr. 674; W I 1, Nr. 1958; W I 1, Nr. 2575; W I 58.10.7; W I 58.10.8; W I 58.11; W I 58.12; W I 58.14; W I 58.18; W I 58.20; W I 58.21; W I 58.22; W I 58.23; W I 58.50; W I 58.53 (S. 69-77); W I 58.53 (S. 78-87) ; W I 58.57 175; W I 58.69; W I 58.70; W I 58.71; W I 58.72; W I 58.73; W I 58.74; W I 58.75; W I 58.77; W I 58.78; W I 58.79; W I 58.80; W I 58.82; W I 58.84; W I 58.86; W I 58.90; W I 58.91; W I 58.92; W I 58.94; W I 58.97; W I 58.98; W I 58.99; W I 58.102; W I 58.103; W I 58.105; W I 58.108; W I 58.110; W I 58.111; W I 58.113; W I 58.114; W I 58.115; W I 58.116; W I 58.120; W I 58.122; W I 58.124; W I 58.125; W I 58.126; W I 58.128; W I 58.133; W I 58.134; W I 58.143; W I 58.145; W I 58.146; W I 58.151; W I 58.154; W I 58.155; W I 58.156; W I 58.164; [W I 58.166]; W I 58.172; W I 58.172; W I 58.173; W I 58.174; W I 58.176; W I 90.58911; W I 90.58913; W I 90.58915; W II 12.310; W II 12.320; W II 12.350]
- Archival history:
- The collection was transferred to the State Archive in 2009.
- 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:
- Winterthur
- Zurich
- Access points: persons/families:
- Guggenheim
- Selig
- Weil
- Subject terms:
- Financial matters
- Historical research
- 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
