Metadata: Censuses Canton/City 1850-1920
Collection
- Country:
- Switzerland
- Holding institution:
- State Archive Solothurn
- Holding institution (official language):
- Staatsarchiv Solothurn
- Postal address:
- Bielstrasse 41; CH-4509 Solothurn
- Phone number:
- +41 32 627 62 80
- Web address:
- https://so.ch/staatskanzlei/staatsarchiv/
- Email:
- staatsarchiv@sk.so.ch
- Title:
- Censuses Canton/City 1850-1920
- Title (official language):
- Volkszählungen Kanton/Stadt 1850-1920
- Creator/accumulator:
- Administration of Solothurn
- Date(s):
- 1850/1920
- Language:
- German
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
-
This collection contains several documents on the censuses of the city and canton of Solothurn, which took place every ten years and which are relevant for the analysis of the settlement development of Jews in the canton of Solothurn. Among other things, it can be seen from the documents that in the 1870 municipal census "Israelite" could be stated as someone’s religion for the first time. These files contain a great deal of information about the development of Solothurn's Jewish population in the second half of the 19th century. The records of the 1880 census contain information on the cattle dealers Daniel Katz, Theodor Geissmann, Salomon Dreyfuß, the Leval family and other Jews. The presence of twelve Jews in Oensingen is documented as early as the 1860s. Among them was the French merchant Nathan Meyer. The municipal census of 1888 shows that Charles Marx, a new rabbi, had come to Solothurn as the successor to the deceased Salomon Nordmann. The municipal census of 1920 shows that Gustav Hess, together with his wife Blanche Hess-Koblenz, had taken over the business of his father Salomon.
[Volkszählung 1850; Bd. 25.6., Balsthal-Gäu; Volkszählung 1860, Bd. 27/36 Stadt Solothurn 1860; Volkszählung 1.12.1888, Stadt Solothurn; Volkszählung 1880; Volkszählung Stadt 1910; Volkszählung der Stadt Solothurn 1920]
- Archival history:
- The collection has been transferred to the archive on a continual basis.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- The State Archives hold the documents of parliament, government and administration of the canton of Solothurn. In addition, there are documents of independent corporations, institutions subject to cantonal public law and of natural or legal persons, as long as they fulfil public tasks of the canton. The holdings of the State Archives comprise around 8,500 linear metres. The oldest fragment of a text dates from the end of the 8th century. The oldest completely preserved document dates from 1147. In terms of quantity, the focus is clearly on more recent administrative documents. The holdings of the Jewish Community were transferred to the State Archive in 2013.
- Access points: locations:
- Solothurn
- Subject terms:
- Census
- Yerusha Network member:
- Jewish Museum Hohenems
- Author of the description:
- Severin Holzknecht; Jewish Museum of Hohenems; 2021
