Historical local dictionary (Austria)
The historical local lexicon of Austria is a statistical documentation of the Austrian population and settlement history and contains information about population and house numbers. It is used to provide quantitative support for work on demographic, settlement history and regional studies and offers an extensive range of data for regional and local history. The main task of this documentation is the inclusion of the "early statistical" (late 18th to mid-19th century) and "pre-statistical" phase in the quantitative description of population and settlement history.
history
The historical local lexicon was created around 1970 as a map-like data collection for studies and publications by Kurt Klein , before his retirement he was an employee (most recently vice-president) of the Austrian Central Statistical Office (today: Statistics Austria ) and lecturer at the Institute for Economic and Social History at the University of Vienna . The local lexicon has been transferred to the PC since 2001 and has been continuously supplemented with archive material, numerous mostly local sources (homeland books, local chronicles), information from the 2001 large censuses and the 2011 register census as well as the latest population data from Statistics Austria.
The version of August 31, 2016 is the last version of the historical local dictionary, which remains accessible on the Internet but is no longer supplemented.
For individual further work, two approaches are particularly recommended:
- Statistics Austria's website provides the best possible access to the latest data, including population statistics back to 1869. It also offers explanatory texts, fully accessible publications and transitions to international data.
- Digitized sources are a constantly growing access to older sources (e.g. also those that are listed in the source index of the federal states). Catalogs of digitized sources can facilitate access.
content
Information about the population comes from censuses (from 1869), in the "early statistical" period 1754–1857 from older population censuses (church censuses, military conscriptions, census 1857), in the "pre-statistical" period mostly from tax, manorial, church or military sources .
Church visitations or synodal reports from the 16th to 18th centuries Century often indicate the number of communicants (participants in the Easter sacraments, mostly people from about 8 to 12 years). Such information is often only roughly estimated, especially in the 16th century; In the time of the Counter Reformation, more precise information was often determined by counting the confession notes issued.
Information from military sources usually relate to those who are fit for military service (mostly men aged 18 to 60, around a quarter of the total population). Many such information from the 15th – 17th centuries. Century are related to mobilizations for the Turkish wars.
At the end of each federal state file, in normal type and in chronological order, there are sources of general importance for the entire state and its territorial units.
literature
- Kurt Klein : Historical local dictionary. Introduction. Data as of August 31, 2016. Vienna 2016, PDF on oeaw.ac.at.