Metadata: Magistrate of Bauska (Courland Governorate)
Collection
- Country:
- Latvia
- Holding institution:
- Latvian State Historical Archives
- Holding institution (official language):
- Latvijas Valsts vēstures arhīvs
- Postal address:
- Slokas iela 16, Rīga, LV-1048
- Phone number:
- +371 20 017 505
- Reference number:
- 645
- Title:
- Magistrate of Bauska (Courland Governorate)
- Title (official language):
- Bauskas pilsētas maģistrāts (Kurzemes guberņa)
- Creator/accumulator:
- Magistrate of Bauska
- Date(s):
- 1617/1889
- Language:
- Russian
- Polish
- Extent:
- 4,790 files
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
- The collection consists of the records of the Bauska Magistrate, which reflect different aspects of the city's life including the city budget and financial issues, taxation, materials on economic activity of the city residents, property disputes and more. The collection also contains several Jewish-related records which relate mainly to the economic activities of Bauska Jews. Jewish names can be found in the lists from 1878-1880 of persons engaged in trade in the city (inventory 1, file 4775, 4776). The collection includes complaints of Jewish residents of Bauska to the magistrate against officials and against other residents. The file from 1869 contains a complaint by Mr. Kleinberg, a Jewish merchant from Riga, in connection with obstacles for timber floating (inventory 1, file 4780). The decisions of the magistrate include also records of the judicial proceedings concerning debt recovery by merchant Danneman from U. Michelson (inventory 1, file 4786). In addition, a file from 1860 contains the magistrate’ decisions regarding the complaint of Lina Levenshtein against a judge who insulted her family (inventory 1, file 4778).
- Archival history:
- In the 1920s pre-revolutionary materials were consolidated into the newly organised Latvian State Archive which existed throughout the interwar period.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- During the Tsarist period magistrates (municipal authorities) were a judicial and administrative elected institution in the cities. They were responsible for the whole range of judicial, administrative, economic and social municipal issues, but their jurisdiction extended only to merchants and burghers (mieszczanie). In 1889, magistrates were abolished in the cities of the Baltic provinces including the magistrate of Bauska. In their place general imperial judicial institutions such as Justice courts (mirovoi sud) were introduced in the region
- Access points: locations:
- Bauska
- Yerusha Network member:
- Central Archives for the History of the Jewish People
- Author of the description:
- Ilya Vovshin, Central Archives for the History of the Jewish People, 2019
