Montgelas count
The Montgelas census (also Montgelas survey ) is a statistical survey carried out between 1809 and 1811 and is considered the first comprehensive statistics in the Kingdom of Bavaria .
prehistory
Earlier surveys were flawed, such as that of Johann Nepomuk Freiherr von Dachsberg in the years 1771–1781, which has only been partially preserved and the survey period extended over ten years, or that of Joseph von Hazzi , which only proved to be of limited use.
Therefore, in the "Highest regional sovereign regulation the establishment of the parish register concerning January 31st, 1803" (Government Gazette 1803, 73-80) regulations and norms were issued, the standardized forms of the baptism, marriage and death registers for the determination of the Population and introduced corresponding reports to the higher authorities. On October 1, 1808, the Statistical-Topographical Bureau was set up at the Bavarian State Ministry of the Royal House and Foreign Affairs and entrusted with the production of statistics for the country. At the same time, administrative structures were set up at the Ministry of the Interior for the purpose of carrying out a comprehensive census, for which the headings of the tables with the exact survey characteristics were sent to the subordinate General District Commissariats. These included: places, buildings, population (differentiated according to gender, religion, number of families, number of children), births, weddings, deaths (differentiated according to age, sex and cause of death), mineral products, harvest, livestock, manufactories and factories, number of artists , Craftsmen, merchants, trade, immigration and emigration, arrests, prisons, hospitals, poor houses (each with inmates), and community finances.
Counts
The census named after Maximilian von Montgelas took place in the years 1809 to 1811 and is the first comprehensive statistic in the Kingdom of Bavaria and the adjacent areas. As with the previous censuses, there was no reference date or reporting period, but in future the data should be recorded annually, also in order to provide the new line ministries with the most accurate data possible about their areas. A total of 438 handwritten folio volumes were created, which can be viewed today in the manuscript department of the Bavarian State Library . It contains extensive data for the years 1809/10 and 1811/12 as well as supplements for the newly acquired territories of Aschaffenburg (1814/15) and Würzburg (1815/16).
evaluation
The evaluation was carried out in the Statistical Bureau founded in 1808 under Joseph Ernst von Koch-Sternfeld . The office was dissolved again in 1817, at the same time as Montgelas was dismissed as minister responsible.
Individual evidence
- ↑ 200 years of official statistics in Bavaria 1808 to 2008 , Bavarian State Office for Statistics and Data Processing, Munich 2008. PDF ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Maximilian I. Joseph (Bavaria) : Höchst-Landesherrlicheordnung . January 31, 1803, urn : nbn: de: bvb: 12-bsb10319899-9 ( mdz-nbn-resolving.de ).
- ↑ Official statistics
- ↑ www.statistik.bayern.de History of the State Office , accessed on May 19, 2018.
