Metadata: Administration of the County of Kovačica (1891-1918)
Collection
- Country:
- Serbia
- Holding institution:
- Historical Archives of Pančevo
- Holding institution (official language):
- Историјски архив у Панчеву (Istorijski arhiv u Pančevu)
- Postal address:
- Nemanjina 7, 26 000 Pančevo, Republic of Serbia
- Phone number:
- (+381) 13 317 344
- Web address:
- https://www.arhivpancevo.org.rs/
- Email:
- arhivsek@panet.rs
- Reference number:
- F. 54
- Title:
- Administration of the County of Kovačica (1891-1918)
- Title (official language):
- Среско начелство Среза ковачичког (Antalfalvai Járás Szolgabirosága) - Kовачица (Antalfalva) (1891-1918)
- Creator/accumulator:
- Administration of the County of Kovačica
- Date(s):
- 1874/1918
- Language:
- German
- Hungarian
- Extent:
- 36 linear metres (10 administrative books and 519 boxes)
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- Good
- Scope and content:
- The collection comprises records related to the activities and events that occurred in Kovačica County between 1874 and 1918. The County of Kovačica covered the territory of the following places: Kovačica (Antalfalva), Jarkovac (Arkod), Baranda (Báranda), Čenta (Csenta), Crepaja (Cserépalja), Farkaždin (Farkasd), Padina (Nagylajosfalva), Opovo (Opáva), Tomaševac Tamáslaka), Sakule (Torontalsziget), Idvor (Torontaludvar), Debeljača (Torontálvásérhely) and Uzdin (Ujozora). Jews, among the other nations, inhabited the area of the county and the records include details of their daily life and activities within the scope of the Administration of the County of Kovačica, such as: reports on the work of the municipality, censuses, statistical evidence, household cooperatives, poverty reports, activities of offices, voting and voters registry, elections, public safety, health condition, military service and exemptions from it; inhabitants killed in WWI, birth certificates, labourers' records, travel permits, property distribution, applications of the craftsmen and merchants, association reports, etc.
- Archival history:
- After WWII the documentation of the fonds was stored in the State Archives Novi Sad and from 1956 in the Archives of Vojvodina, which transferred it to the Archives of Pančevo. No take-over minutes have been kept. Textual material was mostly preserved, the administrative books fragmentarily. The documents were catalogued chronologically in 1968.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- The Law on Administrative Organisation of Cities and Municipalities, dated 1871, introduced the civil administration in the Banat Military Border, which included Kovačica as the seat of the administrative county of the 7th company within the 12th German-Banat border regiment. The temporary commissions for law enforcement were formed, and the administrative districts of the companies came under the competency of districts, headed by the district administrator. Kovačica County became the part of Torontal County, according to the law on the organisation of municipalities from 1870, comprising the following places: Kovačica (Antalfalva), Jarkovac (Arkod), Baranda (Báranda), Centa (Csenta), Crepaja (Cserépalja), Farkaždin ), Padina (Nagylajosfalva), Opovo (Opáva), Tomaševac (Tamáslaka), Sakule (Torontalsziget), Idvor (Torontaludvar), Debeljača (Torontálvásérhely) and Uzdin (Ujozora). Kovačica County entered into the newly formed Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes in 1918.
- Subject terms:
- Census
- Jewish political activity
- Military
- Poverty
- Trade and commerce
- World War I
- System of arrangement:
- The collection is arranged chronologically.
- Finding aids:
- The previously compiled summary catalogue was not preserved.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Historical Archives of Belgrade
- Author of the description:
- Smiljka Vučur; Historical Archives of Pančevo; 2020