Metadata: Josephinian Cadastral Register (First Land Cadastre of Galicia)
Collection
- Country:
- Ukraine
- Holding institution:
- Central State Historical Archives of Ukraine in Lviv
- Holding institution (official language):
- Центральний державний історичний архів України, м. Львів
- Postal address:
- 3a Soborna sq., 79008 Lviv
- Phone number:
- +380 (32) 235-40-63; +380 (32) 235-56-57
- Web address:
- https://archives.gov.ua/Eng/Archives/ca04.php
- Email:
- tsdial@arch.gov.ua
- Reference number:
- F. 19
- Title:
- Josephinian Cadastral Register (First Land Cadastre of Galicia)
- Title (official language):
- Йосифінська метрика (Перший поземельний кадастр Галичини)
- Creator/accumulator:
- Josephinian Cadastral Register (First Land Cadastre of Galicia)
- Date(s):
- 1774/1892
- Language:
- German
- Polish
- Ukrainian
- Extent:
- 5,514 storage units
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Scope and content:
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The main structural and thematic components of the Josephinian cadastral register are as follows: the soil register – a log of agricultural earnings; a description of the land boundaries of the community; and rules for compiling descriptions of fields. Materials of the Josephinian cadastral register also include documents that were housed in the fond by accident, including data from the home census of 1788 and documents pertaining to the urbarial reform of 1789.
Materials housed in the fond that pertain to the economic history and social status of Jews in Galicia may be divided into the following thematic groups:
1) Entries in land-survey logs on Jews’ ownership of various types of real estate (houses, huts, taverns, wineries, austerias [public houses], and land plots) in cities and towns (seats of administrative districts): Lwów/Lemberg, Brody, Złoczów, Tarnopol, Zaleszczyki, Stanisławów (now Ivano-Frankivsk), Brzeżany, Żólkiew, Stryj, Sambor, Sanok, Przemyśl, Myślienice, Tarnów, Rzeszów, Nowy Sącz, Zamość, Dukla, Bochnia – the last nine of these cities are currently located in Poland; Drohobycz, Stary Sambor / Stare Miasto, Chyrów, Skole, Dolina, Żydaczów, Halicz, Bełz, Kamionka Strumiłowa (now Kamianka-Buzka), Zbaraż, Husiatyn, Tłumacz, Buczacz, Chodorów, Czernelica, Przemyślany, Podkamień, Kołomyja, Tyśmienica, Trembowla, Busk, Zborów, etc., as well as information on the area of this property, income from it, and the amount of tax paid on it.
In particular, the documents indicate that in Brody, Rabbi Lanz owned a house, a winery, and a brewery (op. 18, 1788). Occasionally there is also an inventory of homes (indicating the construction material of the given structure, the number of rooms, the nature of use, and the amount of the projected tax), in particular in the cities of Lwów/Lemberg (for the environs thereof) (op. 12, 1789), Olesko, Lisec (op. 6, 1788), and Jagielnica (op. 10, 1787); and towns of the Dukla area (op. 1, 1789). For example, in the city of Olesko, there were 123 homeowners in possession of 159 properties, among whom were recorded from fifty-nine to sixty-seven Jews (op. 18, 1788).
2) An inventory of the territory of Jewish quarters (sections) where Jews lived, their numbers and social status. For example, in large cities and towns, there were shopping arcades on the market square where Jews owned houses, kramy and jatki (types of market stands, for wholesale and retail trade respectively). There are also local toponyms from locations of predominantly Jewish inhabitance, e.g. Żydowskadolina (“Jewish Valley”) in the city of Mikulince (op. 17, 1788); Żydowskałąka (“Jewish Meadow”) in Grzymałów (op. 17, 1788); and “Jewish Hayfield” in Chorostków (op. 17, circa 1789). These materials also contain information on the origin of Jewish surnames from patronyms, professions, parental birthplaces, etc., including Leiba and Mendel Abramovich (Husiatyn) (op. 17, 1787), Moshko Kravets (“tailor”) (Bogorodchany (op. 6, 1788), Elo Brodsky, Hershko Kotlyar (“boilermaker”), Borukh Pekar’ (“baker”), and Chaim Sklyar (“glassmaker”) (Stanisławów) (op. 6, 1787).
3) Information on synagogues, houses of worship, and burial places of Jews in almost every city (with a few exceptions: Zarudzie, Dunajów), in particular, on the number of synagogues and cemeteries, including a separate cemetery for Jews who died from epidemics in the city of Olesko (op. 18, 1788); information on these structures’ territorial location and area, as well as on other special buildings (for example, structures that belonged to the Jewish community), including mikvahs in the cities of Husiatyn (op. 17, 1787), Suchostaw (op. 17, 1788), Kopyczyńce (op. 17, 1788); hospitals in Stanisławów (op. 6, 1787), Gliniany (op. 18, 1788), Śniatyn (op. 10, 1787), and Drohobycz.
- Administrative/biographical history:
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The Josephinian and Franciscan cadastral registers (cadastres) were sets of official registers that included censuses and economic assessments of land in the Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria and regulated land relations in these territories, which were annexed to the Austrian Empire after the partitions of Poland in 1772-95. The Josephinian cadastral register was compiled in 1785-88 within the framework of reforms carried out pursuant to a decree of Austrian Emperor Joseph II. The Franciscan Cadastral Register was compiled in 1817-23, during the reign of Emperor Francis II, pursuant to his 1817 directive that a new census be conducted so as to verify and update the data of the Josephinian cadastral register. The cadastral registers were motivated by the need to tax agricultural land in this newly acquired province of the Habsburg Empire.
A government directive of 1785 stipulated that arable and fallow lands, ponds, vegetable gardens, pastures and grassland meadows, scrublands, graperies, and forests were to be surveyed, assessed, and included in the Josephinian cadastral register. Separately, in 1788, a decree was issued mandating the listing and classification of buildings for the purpose of a census of structures in cities and villages, of which not all were subject to taxation. The following were exempted from taxation: homes owned by persons earning their livelihood in agriculture; government, military, and religious buildings; buildings used for industrial purposes; and buildings under renovation. Also housed in F. 19 are documents that were included in the fond by accident, including data from the home census of 1788 and documents pertaining to the urbarial reform of 1789.
- Access points: locations:
- Bełz
- Bochnia
- Bogorodchany
- Brody
- Brzeżany
- Buczacz
- Busk
- Chodorów
- Chorostków
- Chyrów
- Czernelica
- Dolyna
- Drohobych
- Dukla
- Gliniany
- Grzymałów
- Halicz
- Husiatyn
- Jagielnica
- Kamionka Strumiłowa
- Kołomyja
- Lisec
- Lwów
- Mikulince
- Myślenice
- Nowy Sącz
- Olesko
- Podkamień
- Przemysl
- Przemyślany
- Rzeszow
- Sambor
- Sanok
- Skole
- Sniatyn
- Stary Sambor
- Stryi
- Suchostaw
- Tarnopol
- Tarnów
- Tłumacz
- Trembowla
- Tyśmienica
- Zaleszczyki
- Zamość
- Zbaraż
- Zborow
- Złoczów
- Żólkiew
- Żydaczów
- System of arrangement:
- The fond includes nineteen inventories systematized according to administrative division, that is, according to tax districts and dominia (or manors, the smallest administrative units introduced in Galicia by the Austrian authorities); files are organized chronologically and by document significance (in some case there are duplicates, which make up a second volume of storage units).
- Finding aids:
- Inventories are available.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Jewish Theological Seminary