The
Town Accounts are the general ledgers of Soufflenheim. They list all sources of
income and expenses for each year beginning in 1665. Translated by Marie Odile
Peres.
Town
Account
Names
In The Town Account
Accounts
held by me Hans Kieffer and by Hans Ertz both of us mayors of this place,
concerning all receipts and expenses in the year 1665 in Soufflenheim. Closed
in the year 1666 the 27th of September.
RECEIPTS
Left
from account of Hans Ertz and Claus Trager, former mayors in the year 1664 : 0
Remains
due to them on this account: 1 R 2 s 3 d
Receipts On Wood
Accounts
First,
received from Martzolff Reiff and Lux Bless in Grussenheim for some pieces
of
beech tree they have taken away for : 14 R
Same
from Hans Graffen, the carpenter here for some building wood: gave this amount
: 3 R
Same
from Hans Rischen in Scheuerrein for 6 small beech trees and 2 oak tree pieces:
2 R
Same
from Martzolff Reiff for some wood : 1 R 3 s 4 d
Same
from the smith in Druesenheim for an amount of soft wood paid : 4 R
Total :
24 R 3 s 4 d
Same
from the charcoal burner for foul wood paid : 3 R
Same
from Thomann Tauren in Drusenheim for a sale of wood paid : 7 R
Same
from the carter of Bischwiller for 70 beech trees spoilt by fire paid :12
R
Same
from Martzolff Reiff for a small sale of soft wood and some
beech
trees damaged by the fire paid : 7 R
Total :
29 G
Subtotal :
53 R 3 s 4 d
Receipt For Grass
First,
from Christian Hitzinger and Lorentz Schaeffer : 8 R 8 s
Same
from Paul Moser received : 1 R 8 s
Same
from Paul Moser again : 2 R 5 s
Total
: 13 R 1 s
Receipt On Interests
From
the butcher in Strasbourg on the Riedmatt (meadow) received : 63 R
Received
from Villig in Stattmatten : 3 R 5 s
Received
from Georg Nass in Sessenheim : 5 R
Received
from Lorentz Leyman : 8 s
Received
from Georg Ilg in Sessenheim : 7 s 6 d
Received
from Jacob Mey : 2 s 8 d
Received
from Diebolt Irr : 7 s
Total :
74 R 2 d
General Interests
Account
Received
from Lorentz Schaeffer for 174 measures (ohmen) (One ohm of wine is 1 s 4 d):
23 R 2 s
Received
from Paul Mosser for 69 measures of wine, 1 ohm is 1 s 4 d so makes : 9 R 2 s
Received
from the carter in this place for yearly interest : 4 R
Same
from Hans Leffler his interest : 8 R
Total :
44 R 4 s
Total
Receipts Are : 184 R 8 s 6 d
FOLLOW NOW THE EXPENSE:
First At Mr. Utz, Near
Lorentz Schaeffer
First
on the 15th of January consumed by Hans Rath : 3 s 8 d
Then
the 16th the same : 2 s 10 d
Then
the 22nd Claus and Bartel together : 3 s 2 d
Then
the 23rd Claus : 1 s 10 d
Then
the 25th Claus and Hans Rath as they worked on the Uhrhaupaltz : 4 s 10 d
Same
the 26th March the three foresters consumed : 3 s 6 d
Same
the 10th April by the bailiff's servant : 2 s 10 d
Same
for oats for horses and places in the stable : 3 s 4 d
On
the 14th of the same by Claus, and Hans Rath : 5 s 2 d
Total :
3 R 1 s 2 d
On
the 28th of April by Hans Rath : 2 s 7 d
Same
the 30th the chief Postmaster and Mosier Bing : 1 R 6 d
Same
Claus and Hans Rath as they had killed a pig : 9 s 8 d
Same
Claus and Hans Rath : 5 s 2 d
Same
Master Doctor and a farmer of Higelsheim : 3 s 4 d
Same
29th June Falck Munier and the old horse rider : 5 s 4 d
Same
6th July the bailiff and his servants with Mosier Bing : 2 R 7 s 6 d
Same
9th Claus and Baertel : 4 s 8 d
Total :
6 R 8 s 9 d
Same
8th September Hans Rath : 2 s 8 d
Same
24th Claus and Hans Rath : 5 s 6 d
Same
6th October Mosier Bing and Baertel : 8 s 8 d
Same
as the Cross rider’s servant came to receive the month’s monies : 2 s
Same
Claus and Baertel : 2 s 8 d
Same
the 27th Petter : 4 s 8 d
Same
the 28th the same one : 3 s
Total :
2 R 9 s 2 d
What Has Been Consumed
In The Inn Of Utz Near Paul Mosser
Same
as the mayor of Ohlungen brought here the oxen consumed : 1 s 8 d
Same
27th August Claus, Lips, and Baertel at night : 6 s
Same
the 28th their morning soup : 3 s
Same
the evening the same : 1 s 4 d
Same
the 7th of September Hans Rath as he went to the Hiertz Bruntz : 2 s 6 d
Same
as he was in the same place at work, evening meal : 2 s 2 d
Same
the morning soup : 1 s 4 d
Same
the 22nd Hans Rath as he worked in the Hiertz Bruntz : 2 s 8 d
Same
Lips as he worked in the same area : 1 s 10 d
Total :
2 R 2 s 6 d
The
13th of October by Claus and Lips as evening meal : 5 s
Same
the 14th in the morning their soup : 2 s 2 d
Same
the 15th by Hans Rath : 2 s 6 d
Same
the 16th by Claus and Hans Rath and Lips eaten : 7 s 2 d
Same
the 17th the same their meal : 3 s 4 d
Same
the 17th November the four foresters their evening meal : 9 s 6 d
Same
the 18th November by the same for their morning soup : 4 s 8 d
Same
the 21st by Hans Rath, Claus and Lips evening meal : 9 s 6 d
Same
the next day by three foresters and Bartel as they went to the woods and had
their soup : 6 s
Total :
4 R 9 s 10 d
Subtotal Is
: 20 R 1 s 5 d
Same
on the opened day was consumed : 4 R 2 s
On
the same day the cow shepherd, the horse shepherd and the pigs shepherd
ate : 7 s 6 d
Same
as the wood was given to the Drusenheim man after the sale had taken
place : 8 s 2 d
Same
two clergymen from Fremersberg on two different days : 1 s 8 d
Same
as the community of Speyer came to buy wine here : 5 s 6 d
Same
as the wood has been trusted to the man from Drusenheim to have it sold :
2 R 7 s 3 d
Same
as on the 1st of May the community went on the bann with the priests : 2 R 7 s
6 d
Total :
11 R 9 s 7 d
Same
the 28th of May as the man from Drusenheim came to fall wood : 4 R 3 s 8 d
Same
three Capuciner brothers : 2 s
Same
as the wood for sale was given to Thomann Taur : 8 s
Same
to the young persons who sang here : 4 s 6 d
Same (remainder
not translated) : 6 s
Same
to the color-bearer and those who participated : 1 R 2 s
Same
on the day when the common bann district was divided on the Heilpelsmatt :
8 s 2 d
Same
when the grass has been sold on auction : 1 R 4 s
Same
as the tithe was on auction : 4 s 8 d
Total :
10 R 3 s
Same
when the cattle were brought together : 2 R 1 s 10 d
Same
on occasion of departure of Pastor Wilhelm, invited with the mayors and
schoolteacher : 6 s
Same
by the burghers who took care of the church consecration : 1 s 6 d
Same
when the fences were visited : 2 R 5 s 9 d
Same
on St. Wendelin’s Day, the priest and the mayor here : 7 s 10 d
Same
when the wood was given to the carter of Bischwiller for sale : 1 R 1 s 4
d
Same
as the wood was given to Martzolff Reiff for sale : 8 s 4 d
Same
the butchers from Strasbourg on the day they came to pay their interest on
meadows : 1 R 5 s 6 d
Total :
9 R 8 s 1 d
Same
on Carnival’s day to the burgher’s wives : 2 R 6 s 2 d
Same
on the day of payment of the last quarter of the year : 6 s
On
Christmas day, when the Christmas play was given, to the young people : 4
s 8 d
On
St. John the Baptist’s Day, when the 4th tax was accounted for : 1 R 8 s 4
d
Total :
5 R 5 s 2 d
Subtotal
Is : 37 R 5 s 10 d
General Expense
To
a man who collected money for a church destroyed by fire, and to protect
against fire of the schoolhouse : 4 s
To
the pigs shepherd to buy powder : 1 s 2 d
To
the same for a pair boots : 4 R 5 s
To
buy a community bull : 12 R
To
write down a common request to the Landlord : 5 s
To
the mayor and assistant of the time in Haguenau for dinner : 9 s 8 d
To
the cow shepherd to buy a pair of boots : 4 R 5 s
Spent
on dinner on the day when the mayor in presence of the landlord has sold the
meadow rights in the forest : 6 s
Total :
23 R 5 s 10 d
On
the day when all mayors came together on order of the Landlord, his dinner was:
3 s
On
the day when the mayor was asked to visit the Landlord on occasion of
collecting the Pflueggelt: 2 s 8 d
Same
to Diebolt Ertz for the maintenance of the common flat boat paid : 1 R 5 s
Same
to him for a sack of clay paid : 5 s
To
the same to add a new rope to the large bell : 7 s 6 d
Same
to give money to Manath : 8 d
Same
to Bartel for the clearing in the woods due : 5 s
Same
to allow the pig shepherd to buy powder : 1 s 2 d
Same
two nuns who gathered the convent tax : 1 s 4 d
Total :
4 R 1 s 4 d
Same
to one man from Bischwiller who brought here a wolf he had shot : 1 s
Same
to one burgher here who went twice to Higelsheim for questions of medicine
with the doctor there, given as boat fee : 1 s 4 d
Same
given to the messenger, Georg Volck who went to deliver two letters to the
landlord in Schwartzach, paid as boat cost : 1 s
Same
given to a soldier who came from Hungary : 2 s
Same
to the receiver of the knight, Anecker, given money : 9 s
Same
to the cooper who fixed a pail on the fountain in the Hecklum place paid :
2 s
Same
to fix the other material of the well : 1 R 7 s
Same
to fix a pail on the fountain named Grutgart : 2 s 6 d
Total :
3 R 5 s 10 d
Same
for the locking of the fort let : 4 s 2 d
For
material for the locking of the shepherd's house : 3 s 4 d
Same
to the mayor and the church bedell on occasion of their trip to Hagenau to meet
the Father rector concerning the vicars, for their meal and what the horses
ate : 8 s 4 d
Same
to the mayor on occasion of his visit to the same landlords concerning the wood
of the Mittelfeld, his meal : 4 s
Same
to lead the parting fork twice paid : 8 s 8 d
Same
to maintain the windows of the shepherd's house : 1 R 8 s 6 d
Same
as the mayor went to Hagenau concerning the Pflueg tax his meal there : 3
s 4 d
Total :
5 R 4 d
Same
to vicar Späth yearly money : 2 R 5 s
Same
to the vicar for candles (3 1/2 pounds) paid : 5 s 10 d
Same
for oil needed by the clock and bells : 3 s
Same
for nails needed for the bells and clocks : 1 s 2 d
Same
as money for the poor : 6 s 10 d
Same
to Lorentz Schaeffer for hay, on occasion of the three important
quarters : 3 R 9 s 4 d
Same
to the barber in Bischwiller for the bath here : 4 R 5 s
Same
as the carriages that the soldiers had driven were sent to the now deceased
Jacob Wagner and Jacob Linder, their meal : 4 s
Total :
13 R 2d
Same
to Hans Ertz, salesman, who went to buy wine in Hagenau has been spent : 2
s
Same
as quarterly money given to the clerk : 5 s 6 d
Same
from Michael’s day to Christmas has been given to maintain the common flat
boat : 2 R 5 s
Same
to buy paper and ink : 4 s 10 d
Total :
3 R 7 s 4 d
Subtotal
Is : 53 R 10 s
Same
to the mayor concerning forest problems to solve : 12 R
Same
to the schoolmaster for his year’s pay : 3 R
Same
to him his right to crops : 5 1/2 measures : 9 R 4 s
Same
to the midwife for her yearly pay : 2 R
Same
to both of us, mayors, as payment : 4 R
Same
on payment of this account to both of us : 1 R 2 s
Plus
attendance to this account presentation : 1 R 5 s
Total :
38 R 1 s
And
General Total For All Expense Is : 148 Gulden 9 s 1 d
The
Comparison Of Income And Expense Makes An Income Of : 35 Gulden 9 s 5 d
The
present account has been presented today in presence of Hans Heinrich Schaeffer
the mayor and of the two magistrates, Hans Ertz and Claus Träger, and of both
justice counselors and ratified by our Landlord, in Soufflenheim on the 27th
September in the year 1666.
The
following 24 people probably lived in Soufflenheim in 1665. Their names are
mentioned in various parts of the 1665 Town Account. Individuals not described
as residing elsewhere are listed below. Nineteen
of the 24 people named in the Town Account are mentioned by both their first
and last name. All of these are found in other Soufflenheim records, with the
exception of Falk Munier.
|
Year |
Surname |
Name
|
Description |
Source |
|
1665 |
Bing |
Mosier |
|
Town Account |
|
1665 |
Ertz |
Diebolt |
|
Town Account |
|
1665 |
Ertz |
Hans |
Salesman and Heimburger |
Town Account |
|
1665 |
Greffen |
Hans |
Carpenter Here |
Town Account |
|
1665 |
Irr |
Diebolt |
|
Town Account |
|
1665 |
Kieffer |
Hans |
Heimburger |
Town Account |
|
1665 |
Leffler |
Hans |
|
Town Account |
|
1665 |
Leyman |
Lorentz |
|
Town Account |
|
1665 |
Mey |
Jacob |
|
Town Account |
|
1665 |
Mosser |
Paul |
Innkeeper |
Town Account |
|
1665 |
Munier |
Falk |
|
Town Account |
|
1665 |
Rath |
Hans |
Town Account |
|
|
1665 |
Schaeffer |
Hans Heinrich |
Schultheiss |
Town Account |
|
1665 |
Schaeffer |
Lorentz |
Innkeeper |
Town Account |
|
1665 |
Trager |
Claus |
Heimburger in 1666 |
Town Account |
|
1665 |
Volk |
George |
Messenger |
Town Account |
|
1665 |
Hitzinger |
Christian |
|
Town Account |
|
1665 |
Linder |
Jacob |
Deceased |
Town Account |
|
1665 |
Wagner |
Jacob |
Deceased |
Town Account |
|
1665 |
Wilhelm |
Pastor |
Pastor |
Town Account |
|
1665 |
Späth |
Vicar |
Vicar of Church. |
Town Account |
|
1665 |
|
Bartel |
|
Town Account |
|
1665 |
|
Claus |
Town Account |
|
|
1665 |
|
Lips |
|
Town Account |
|
1665 |
|
Petter |
|
Town Account |