Bozner Bürgerbuch

The Bozner Bürgerbuch , Hs. 2713 of the Bolzano City Archives

The first entries from 1551, Hs. 2713, fol. 2a

The Bolzano Citizens Register is a civil register of the city of Bolzano created in 1551 and kept until 1760 , which is kept by the Bolzano city archives as Hs. 2713 .

The paper manuscript comprises 340 sheets with a uniform side mirror of 32: 21 cm and is bound in a contemporary leather binding. It begins with a list of names drawn up by the council clerk Paul Falser for the years 1578–1708. The following text of the citizen and resident oath ( fürhalt der burgerrecht; fürhalt der inwonner ) goes back to the second half of the 15th century and defines the following obligations for new citizens: 1) loyalty to the sovereign ; 2) obedience to city council and mayor ; 3) Clothing or fulfillment of all offices and services that are assigned by the city council in the interests of the common good ( wolfart ); 4) Assistance in all disaster cases.

The main part of the manuscript contains the protocol entries of citizen and resident recordings sorted by year and comprises a total of 5,160 individual entries. In many cases, these are also provided with information about their origin and occupation, so that the increased migration and mobility of the economically particularly active part of the city population emerges, which during the pre-modern era mainly moved from the surrounding area, but also to a large extent from southern German - Swabian areas. The oldest mention from 1551 concerns a certain Jörg Nürnberger , a furrier by profession and a native of Dinkelsbühl in Middle Franconia (Bavaria). The last recording recorded in the civil register from 1760 concerns Sebastian Krißmayr from Imst in the Tyrolean Oberland, also a furrier. The first woman named among the predominantly male names is Lucia Frisch (in) , a widow who appears in 1590 without any further details and to whom a street name in the Bozen industrial area was dedicated.

literature

Franz Huter : Contributions to the population history of Bolzano in the 16th – 18th centuries Century (= Bozen Yearbook for History, Culture and Art 1948). Athesia Publishing House: Bozen 1948.

Rudolf Marsoner ( arrangement ): Bozner Bürgerbuch 1551–1806. Part I: The citizen and resident recordings of the manuscript of the citizen book. Part II: Additions to the citizen and resident recordings from the advice, rait and copy books of the years 1489–1810 (edited by Karl Theodor Hoeniger and Josef Blaas). III. Part: Register (= Bozen Yearbook for History, Culture and Art 1929/1930). University publishing house Wagner: Innsbruck 1956.

Hannes Obermair : Bozen South - Bolzano North. Written form and documentary tradition of the city of Bozen up to 1500. Volume 2: Regest of the municipal holdings 1401–1500 . City of Bozen: Bozen 2008, ISBN 978-88-901870-1-8 .

Web links

Bolzano City Archives: Hs. 2713 - the Bozen Citizens Register , accessed on May 24, 2020.

Individual evidence

^ Hannes Obermair: Bozen Süd - Bolzano Nord. Written form and documentary tradition of the city of Bozen up to 1500 . tape 2 . City of Bozen, Bozen 2008, ISBN 978-88-901870-1-8 , p. 103, no.1032 .
^ Hans Heiss : Swabian immigration to Brixen, Bozen and Trient from the 16th to the 19th century . In: Journal of the Historisches Verein für Schwaben 82 (1988), pp. 39–63.

[1] Hannes Obermair: Bozen Süd - Bolzano Nord. Written form and documentary tradition of the city of Bozen up to 1500 . tape 2 . City of Bozen, Bozen 2008, ISBN 978-88-901870-1-8 , p. 103, no.1032 .

[2] Hans Heiss : Swabian immigration to Brixen, Bozen and Trient from the 16th to the 19th century . In: Journal of the Historisches Verein für Schwaben 82 (1988), pp. 39–63.