Metadata: Peddling Permits
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:
- Peddling Permits
- Title (official language):
- Hausierpatente
- Creator/accumulator:
- Administration of Solothurn
- Date(s):
- 1823/1864
- Language:
- German
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
- From 1736, Jews were no longer allowed to settle in the canton of Solothurn, but were permitted to trade under certain conditions. In 1823, a general ban on peddling was issued for Jewish merchants. From then on, they were only allowed to trade at the markets. The peddling bans were closely monitored in Solothurn. It was only when the peddling ban was lifted in 1864 that the first Jewish pedlars returned to the canton. These were Salomon Braunschweig of Uffholz in Alsace, […] Guggenheim and Meier Bollag of Endingen and Emanuel Ullmann of Gailingen. [Proklamationen, Beschlüsse und Verordnungen der Regierung des Kantons Solothurn von 1823; 21. Bd. 9; Repertorium 2, BN 1-6]
- 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
- Access points: persons/families:
- Guggenheim
- Subject terms:
- Trade and commerce
- Yerusha Network member:
- Jewish Museum Hohenems
- Author of the description:
- Severin Holzknecht; Jewish Museum of Hohenems; 2021