Metadata: Bailiwicks Dorneck, Thierstein, Bechburg 1500-1798
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:
- Bailiwicks Dorneck, Thierstein, Bechburg 1500-1798
- Title (official language):
- Vogtschreiben Dorneck, Thierstein, Bechburg 1500-1798
- Creator/accumulator:
- Administration of Dornech, Thierstein and Bechburg
- Date(s):
- 1575/1657
- Language:
- German
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
-
There is evidence of Jewish cattle traders in the Solothurn area from 1575. From the same period, there are several letters from Habsburg administrators in Alsace concerning Alsatian cattle traders of the Jewish faith who were also extremely active in Solothurn. In 1657, for example, Alsatian traders were expressly given permission to participate in the Balsthal market.
[Missiven, Bd. 42; 90; Vogtschreiben Thierstein, 1:301; Vogtschreiben 56:234]
- 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:
- Trade and commerce
- Yerusha Network member:
- Jewish Museum Hohenems
- Author of the description:
- Severin Holzknecht; Jewish Museum of Hohenems; 2021
