Metadata: Administration of the Town of Mitrovica, Sremska Mitrovica
Collection
- Country:
- Serbia
- Holding institution:
- Historical Archives “Srem”, Sremska Mitrovica
- Holding institution (official language):
- Историјски архив "Срем" Сремска Митровица (Istorijski arhiv "Srem" Sremska Mitrovica)
- Postal address:
- Vuka Karadzića 4, Sremska Mitrovica
- Phone number:
- (+381) 22 621-861
- Web address:
- http://www.arhivsrem.org.rs/
- Email:
- info@arhivsrem.org.rs
- Reference number:
- F. 13
- Title:
- Administration of the Town of Mitrovica, Sremska Mitrovica
- Title (official language):
- Градско поглаварство Митровица, Сремска Митровица
- Creator/accumulator:
- Administration of the Town of Mitrovica
- Date(s):
- 1787/1918
- Language:
- German
- Serbian
- Croatian
- Extent:
- 13 linear metres (550 administrative books; 7 boxes)
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- Good
- Scope and content:
- The records of the Administration of the Town of Mitrovica (1878-1918) contain valuable data on the everyday life of the inhabitants of Mitrovica during the Habsburg and Austro-Hungarian reign over that area, including the Jewish population. The Protocols on foreigners, controlled by the Precinct in Mitrovica for the period 1861-1872 (Arch. Unit No. 421), contains some Jewish surnames. The protocols provided data on where the foreigners came from, their address in Mitrovica, occupation, duration of stay and the person with whom they stayed. The constituent part of the Protocol was the register of foreigners. The military evidence books of horses and carriages for the year 1912 contained the names of Jewish owners (Arch. Unit No. 82). The book of apprentices (factory workers) contained detailed personal data, including data on the Jewish inhabitants of Mitrovica (Arch. Unit No. 88). In the Household Tax Register for 1879-1889 the names of Jews were also registered. (Arch. Unit No. 217). The Register of House Owners in Mitrovica (Arch. Unit No. 135, 1900-1901) also contains data on Jews. In the General Trade and Trade Taxes Ledger compiled in 1894, the names of Jewish taxpayers (Arch. Unit No. 365) were also registered. In the Book of Food Provisions, dating from 1917, i.e. during World War I, Jewish names and surnames appear among the population of Mitrovica (Arch. Unit No. 142). The collection includes many various registers and censuses compiled on different issues and grounds by the city police services, revenue and tax bodies and health authorities. Further research may reveal even more documents related to the Jewish community in the Mitrovica area than cited here.
- Archival history:
- The collection was transferred to the Archives in 1956 from the National Committee of the Municipality of Sremska Mitrovica. The majority of the documents were destroyed in 1946.
- Administrative/biographical history:
-
In 1745, Mitrovica became the Military Border area, and in 1747, the Petrovaradin Regiment was established with its headquarters in Mitrovica. When Mitrovica was proclaimed the Free Border Community in 1765, the town was divided into the military and civic settlements. The civic settlement was administrated by the Magistrate, which consisted of a prince and three councillors. The imperial patent issued on 11 May 1787 abolished the military communities, thus Mitrovica again joined the Petrovaradin regiment, which seriously limited its further development and progress. The decision of Emperor Francis Joseph, dated 8 June 1871, demilitarised the Military Border, and the Petrovaradin Regiment, which came under the jurisdiction of the General Command in Zagreb, was organised into the counties of Mitrovica, Zemun, Stara Pazova and Šid.
The civic administration of the political municipality was formed in Mitrovica in 1872. The population of Mitrovica repeatedly requested the status of the town with the full autonomy and received it on 2 June 1881. The Administration of the Town was organised into the following departments: Administrative Department (general administration, army, police, population, development of crafts and trade), Economic-Financial Department (taxes, income taxes, various fees, school support, army support, etc.), Town Physician (treatment of the population, suppression of infectious diseases) and the Precinct Administration (maintenance of public order and peace, arrest warrants, suppression of smuggling, etc.). The Administration ceased to exist in 1918, with the dissolution of the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy.
- Access points: locations:
- Sremska Mitrovica
- Access points: persons/families:
- Flajšman
- System of arrangement:
- The documents are arranged according to the principle of provenance and the original order of the creator into the following units: Tax Department; Town Court; Precinct Administration and the Town Physician. They are also grouped into the following chronological periods: up to 1918, 1918-1941 and 1941-1944. The administrative books were arranged into the thematic groups: General; Military; Commercial; Live Stock; Miscellaneous.
- Finding aids:
- The following finding aids are available: administrative history; calendars (37); Guide to the Archival Fonds of the Historical Archives “Srem”, I, Sremska Mitrovica, 2005.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Historical Archives of Belgrade
- Author of the description:
- Dejan Mostarlić; Historical Archives "Srem" Sremska Mitrovica; 2020
