Dzierżoniów Urban Construction Office

Collection description

Holding institution (official language):: Archiwum Państwowe we Wrocławiu, Oddział Kamieniec Ząbkowicki

Scope and content:: The archival collection of the Urban Construction Office of Dzierżoniów is small and contains a few Jewish-related elements. The materials were generated and collected by the officials in charge of the local construction industry and the planning of the city’s development. The records are related to the projects planned/delivered/under construction, such as construction of a housing estate, local tax office building or town hall renovation.

The material of particular interest is the one related to ‘Aryanisation’ of property, as in the unit file no. 29, containing a list of properties taken over from natural persons, partnerships/companies and the Jewish religious community (a synagogue). The unit moreover contains letters exchanged by the authorities and the transacting parties, contracts, detailed sizes of the parcels/building plots, assessed value of the property, and related plans. The following families are mentioned: Cohn, Fleischer, Auerbach, Reich, Israel and Danziger; along with the companies Weÿl & Nassau, Cohn Gebrüder, A. Fleischer, Unger & Wolff.

Archival history:: The files were accumulated by officials/clerks of the Dzierżoniów Urban Construction Office until 1944. Presently, the are kept at the Wroclaw State Archive, branch of Kamieniec-Ząbkowicki.

Administrative/biographical history:: Dzierżoniów’s Urban Construction Office operated until 1945. It was a unit of the City Office, dealing with spatial development, construction project planning and reconstruction/redevelopment of existing buildings/structures/facilities or the urban area.

Access points: persons/families:: Auerbach family; Cohn family; Danziger family; Fleischer family; Israel family; Reich family

System of arrangement:: The collection is arranged thematically. It includes books or registers, unbound documents, correspondence and plans.

Access, restrictions:: The collection is available in the reading room of the State Archive of Wroclaw, Kamieniec-Ząbkowicki branch.

Author of the description:: Anna Grużlewska, Leszek Ziątkowski; University of Wroclaw; 2015