Dzierżoniów Municipal Court

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Country:: Poland

Holding institution:: State Archive of Wroclaw, Kamieniec-Ząbkowicki branch

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

Postal address:: Plac Kościelny 4, 57-230, Kamieniec Ząbkowicki

Phone number:: (+48 74) 8173540

Web address:: http://www.ap.wroc.pl/

Email:: kamieniec@ap.wroc.pl

Reference number:: PL 84/1121

Title:: Dzierżoniów Municipal Court

Title (official language):: Sąd Grodzki w Dzierżoniowie

Creator/accumulator:: Dzierżoniów Municipal Court

Date(s):: 1946/1950

Language:: Polish

Extent:: 15.8 linear metres (3,736 folders)

Type of material:: Textual material

Physical condition:: good

Scope and content:: The collection is comprised of the dossiers of the Civil Department of the Sąd Grodzki (Municipal Court) in Dzierżoniów, with each unit corresponding with a specific case heard and considered by the Court, the relevant material being contained in separate envelopes. There is a Repertory dated 1949 (file no. 1) and civil cases’ records from 1946–50 (file no. 2/2015). The files concern issues such as reconstruction of birth/marriage certificates, acknowledgment of paternity, alimonies, award of parental authority, exemption from production of a certificate, determination of death certificate, permission for marriage, name giving, payment of dues, disputes, establishment of paternity, eviction. The folders contain court summons, motions, authorisations, curricula vitae, session minutes, decisions and verdicts of the Court.

For example:

File no. 2/12: Municipal Real Estate Board in Dzierżoniów vs. Izak Kramarz for eviction and payment; 1948.

File no. 2/13: Municipality (Gmina) of Dzierżoniów vs. Szmul Szampan for payment of 1,335 zloty; 1948.

File no. 2/90: Municipality of Bielawa vs. Kazimierz Nowakowski, Salek Steinfeldand Abram Gutberg for payment of 25,000 zloty; 1948–9.

File no. 2/133: ‘Cooperative Bank for the Productivisation of the Jewry’ vs. ‘unstated estate of Maksymilian Mandelbaum and his associates’, for payment of 75,000 zloty; 1949.

File no. 2/149: Chaim Handlarski vs. Chaim Brawerman and Mieczysław Zalewski, for revocation of a decision of the Arbitration Court; 1950.

File no. 2/348: Chaim Goldblum and Maria Wolrauch, for exemption from production of a certificate; 1948.

File no. 2/497: Lazar Merensztejn, for exemption from production of documents; 1948.

File no. 2/1114: Pesa Sztajnberg, for exemption from production of a birth certificate; 1950.

The Jewish items are numerous due to a fairly large Jewish population living in Dzierżoniów in the latter half of the 1940s.

Archival history:: The records were collected by the chancellery of the Court; once the latter was dissolved in 1950, the records were added to the resource of the District Court (Sąd Rejonowy) of Dzierżoniów. In 2006, they became part of the State Archive of Wroclaw, Kamieniec-Ząbkowicki branch.

Administrative/biographical history:: The Municipal Court of Dzierżoniów was set up in 1945 as a first-instance court, pursuant to an ordnance of the President of the Republic of Poland from 1928. It was dissolved by means of a decree of the Minister of Justice in 1950. On a single judge basis, the Court adjudicated minor civil and criminal cases.

Access points: locations:: Dzierżoniów

Subject terms:: Legal matters; Vital records

System of arrangement:: The collection is comprised of folders, each of which contain files of individual cases considered by the Court. The files are arranged according to the dates of the cases.

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

Finding aids:: A register is available at the archives.

Yerusha Network member:: Emanuel Ringelblum Jewish Historical Institute

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

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