Carolinian cadastre
The Carolinian tax cadastre (also Silesian tax cadastre ) was created by order of Emperor Charles VI. (1685–1740) laid out between 1722 and 1726. With this the old tax register from the 16th century should be replaced. At the same time, the tax system in Silesia should be modernized. As early as 1721, a complete inventory of the financial situation of the Silesian population was made. Their self-reports were subsequently checked by so-called “rectification commissions” (tax assessment commissions) . The result was several hundred volumes of detailed records on taxable wealth in Silesia. The individual volumes of the Carolinian cadastre contain u. a. for the rustic property of the farmers, information on the farms, the arable and cattle ownership, the local mills, forests and ponds. For the cities, information was recorded on the homeowners, their gardens, agricultural holdings, and their civil trades.
The volumes of the Carolinian tax cadastre survived until after the Second World War, which resulted in the transition of Silesia to Poland. They are mainly in the State Archives in Wroclaw (Archiwum Państwowe w Wrocławiu) under the designation "82/164/0 Kataster Karoliński".
The inventory consists of a total of 194 file units (AE) and is structured as follows:
- Principality of Breslau 1723–1725, 11 file units (AE).
- Principality of Brieg 1723–1725, 26 AU.
- Principality of Glogau 1723–1725, 24 AU.
- Principality of Liegnitz 1723–1725, 10 AU.
- Principality of Leobschütz 1723–1725, 10 AU.
- Free class rule Militsch 1723–1725, 10 AE.
- Principality of Münsterberg 1722–1725, 8 AU.
- Principality of Neisse 1723–1725, 8 AU.
- Principality of Oels 1722–1725, 26 AU.
- Principality of Opole-Ratibor 1722–1726, 43 AU.
- Principality of Schweidnitz-Jauer 1722–1726, 10 AU.
- Free rulership Trachenberg 1723–1724, 2 AE.
- Ujest 1726, 1 AE (formerly owned by the bishop "Ujester Halt")
- Free rulership Carolath (= Beuthen an der Oder ) 1723–1725, 2 AE.
- Free rulership of Pless 1723–1727, 7 AE.
- Principality of Neisse 1724–1725, 1 AU.
- Free rulership of Beuthen (= Beuthen OS ) 1723–1725, 1 AE.
For the southern part of the later circle Leobschütz , and the principalities of Cieszyn and Opava-Jägerndorf and others after the Silesian Wars remaining in Austria gentlemen, however, are the volumes in the State Archives Opava . The volumes in the Wroclaw State Archives to the places belonging to the Leobschütz district are duplicates, while their duplicates are in the Opava State Archives.
So far, only volumes 29 and 30 ( Oberglogau in Oberschlesien) have been published by the Historical Commission for the Neustadt / OS e. V. transcribed and published.
See also
literature
- Historical commission for the district Neustadt / OS eV (Ed.) The old district Oberglogau in the Carolinian tax cadastre from 1722/26, Görlitz 2016.
- Stefan Guzy: The house owners of the city of Groß Strehlitz (Upper Silesia) according to the Carolinian cadastre 1722/25 (= Working Group of East German Family Researchers [Ed.]: Archive of East German Family Researchers (AOFF) . Volume 25 ). 2017, p. 181-209 .