Archive of the City of Brno. Registry-in publicis sine signo

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Country:: Czechia

Holding institution:: Archives of the City of Brno

Holding institution (official language):: Archiv města Brna

Postal address:: Přední 2, Brno-Černovice, 618 00

Phone number:: 00420 542 173 612

Web address:: http://www.archiv.brno.cz/index.php?nav01=1734

Email:: amb@brno.cz

Reference number:: 1/12

Title:: Archive of the City of Brno. Registry-in publicis sine signo

Title (official language):: Archiv města Brna. Spisovna-in publicis sine signo

Creator/accumulator:: Municipal Office (Magistrat) of the City of Brno

Date(s):: 1657/1900

Language:: Czech; Latin; German

Extent:: 74.37 linear metres

Scope and content:: The fonds contains materials concerning the development of political and judicial administration of the City of Brno, especially in the period 1784-1789. Since certain documents were filed in the Registry until 1900, important sources of information about the history of Brno Jews after 1848 can also be found in the fonds, especially materials pertaining to Jewish Affairs: Jews who converted to Christianity (1808–1850); Keeping Jewish births, marriages and deaths registry (1832–1848); Temporary permits for Jews to dwell in Brno, participation of Jewish traders in Brno weekly fairs and the Jewish contribution towards municipal affairs (1825–1849); Measures adopted by Little Thora for the Regional Office and Jewish oath formulae (1838–1848); Various materials about Jewish affairs (1817–1849); Tolerating and expelling Jews (1740–1850); Applications by Jews for residence permits, employment and other materials, sorted alphabetically (1804–1851); Collecting Jewish taxes (1837–1850); Collecting shortfalls of Jewish taxes (1851). Furthermore, partial materials concerning Jewish history can be also found in other themed fonds: among others applications by various Jews for the permission to cook kosher food and serve kosher wine at annual fairs (1785–1850); the case of Leopold Haupt v Šimon Apfel, a Jew from Jevíčko, for illegal trading canvas (1844–1848); Weaver and draper journeymen versus, inter alia, running stores with woollen goods from Jews and foreigners (1848); Forced removal of Jew Mojžíš Schmidl to the place of his domicile (so called “postrk“) (1848–1851); Class, personal, income and Jewish taxes (decrees, regulations, provisions and negotiations about these taxes (1830–1849). The fonds contains also sources pertaining to Jewish history before 1848, especially from the turn of the 18th and 19th century.

Archival history:: The fonds was probably already affected by appraisals in the second half of the 19th century. Brno City Archives arranged the fonds between 1952 and 1978.

Administrative/biographical history:: The In Publicis Sine Signo Registry unit was established in 1784, when the old Brno Municipal Council was transferred to a Municipal Office and filing of documents of the city’s political administration into the Old Register was discontinued. From July 1784, political agenda files were filed in the facility named In Publicis Sine Signo Registry. Apart from political administration documents, documents of the civil courts agenda were also filed in the Registry. This situation continued until December 1789. From January 1790, opening new binders in the In Publicis Sine Signo Registry was discontinued, and only documents of the political administration and civil courts agenda for which a binder had already been opened were filed there until May 1851 and May 1900, respectively.

Access points: locations:: Brno

Subject terms:: Conversion to Christianity; Expulsion; Jewish oath; Jewish political activity; Kashrut; Legal matters; Residency issues of Jews; Statistics; Trade and commerce; Trade and commerce--Clothing and textile trade; Vital records; Vital records--Birth records; Vital records--Death records; Vital records--Marriage records

System of arrangement:: The fonds comprises of auxiliary books and the actual files. Originally files were filed in binders identified by Arabic numerals from 1 to 4658. To find in which binder a document had been filed, ancillary registers and indices were kept. This system was preserved during the arrangement of the fonds.

Finding aids:: Dřímal J, Adámek, J: Město Brno. Stará spisovna-in publicis sine signo (1657) 1784-1769 (1900). Inventář, 1.-2. díl, 1970, 1977, 572 s., ev. č. 19.; Adámek J: Město Brno. Stará spisovna-in publicis sine signo (1657) 1784-1769 (1900). Inventář, 3.-4. díl (Rejstřík věcný, Rejstřík jmenný), 1978, 1980, 267 s., ev. č. 19.

Yerusha Network member:: Jewish Museum Prague

Author of the description:: JMP Survey, 2015.

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