Carolinian cadastre

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Carolinian Cadastre, volume 30, book cover

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:

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.

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