Magistrate of the Trading Town of Ruma

Collection

Holding institution (official language):: Историјски архив "Срем" Сремска Митровица (Istorijski arhiv "Srem" Sremska Mitrovica)

Scope and content:: The documents in this collection illustrate the daily life of the population in Ruma, including Jews. The collection contains censuses, which included all residents of Ruma, regardless of nationality and religion. Various marriage permits, data on the agricultural works, lists of horses and carts and craftsmen were also preserved.

The administrative books include various minutes from the sessions of the representative body of the Town of Ruma, lists of taxes and other provisional fees, lists of apprentices, etc. For example, in archival unit no. 42 in the application book of the permanent permits, dated 1897-1902, Sigmund Hoffman and David Gross were registered. Members of the Klein family and Con were mentioned in the evidence book of Commune Taxes Settlement.

Most of the documents were written in German, Latin and Hungarian and rather difficult to read. The documents are kept in the original order of the correspondence, meaning that each document had to be read and interpreted individually.

Archival history:: The collection, which was only partially preserved, was transferred to the Archives from the National Committee of the Commune of Ruma in 1956 in very poor condition.

Administrative/biographical history:: Due to the demarcation of the military and the civilian territory in Srem and the creation of the Military Border and the Srem County, the count Marko Pejačević lost the Trading Town of Mitrovica in 1745. Consequently, he founded a new settlement on his property near the village of Ruma and moved his headquarters to it. After he received a "Settlement Patent" from the Court Chamber in Vienna in 1746, Germans, Hungarians, Croats and Serbs began to come to Nova Ruma and settle there. By 1750, 173 German families with a total of 628 members had moved to Nova Ruma. Ruma was given its town seal, the seal of a privileged town in 1749. In 1822, the County Assembly adopted the Statute of the Trading Town of Ruma. According to the Law on the Organisation of Municipalities of 28 January 1881, the town administration consisted of the Trading Representative Body and the Head of the Trading Administration. The Magistrate was organised in departments: the Department of General Affairs, the Administrative Department and the Economic and Financial Department. The Magistrate ceased to exist with the dissolution of the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy in 1918.

Subject terms:: Agriculture; Census; Professions; Professions--Crafts; Vital records; Vital records--Marriage records

System of arrangement:: The documents are arranged according to the principle of provenance, in chronological order and reference numbers.

Finding aids:: The following finding aids are available: administrative history; analytical inventory; Guide to the Archival fonds of the Historical Archives “Srem”, I, Sremska Mitrovica, 2005.

Author of the description:: Dejan Mostarlić; Historical Archives "Srem" Sremska Mitrovica; 2020