Metadata: Records of the Council of the Town of Kiskunlacháza, 1848-1871
Collection
- Country:
- Hungary
- Holding institution:
- National Archives of Hungary, Pest County Archives
- Holding institution (official language):
- Magyar Nemzeti Levéltár Pest Megyei Levéltára
- Postal address:
- Pf. 141., H-1450 Budapest, Hungary
- Phone number:
- +36 1 455 9050
- Web address:
- http://mnl.gov.hu/pml/
- Email:
- pml@mnl.gov.hu
- Reference number:
- V.142
- Title:
- Records of the Council of the Town of Kiskunlacháza, 1848-1871
- Title (official language):
- Kiskunlacháza Mezőváros Tanácsának iratai, 1848-1871
- Creator/accumulator:
- Council of the Town of Kiskunlacháza
- Date(s):
- 1848/1871
- Language:
- Hungarian
- Extent:
- 32 boxes, 65 vols., 6 booklets, 1 fasc., 6.04 linear metres
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
-
The records of the town council are of key importance to explore and describe the history of the Kiskunlacháza Jewish community from the establishment of the first Jewish institutions in the 1850s until 1872. From this time onwards, most of the relevant files can be found in the records of the Mayor’s Office, although the town council existed until 1929. The most important Jewish-related files are held in the following provenance groups:
V.142. a. Protocols, 1848-1871. The records of the meetings of the town council include requests for settlement (letelepedési kérelem) and for exemption from paying the residence tax (lakhatási díj) of Jewish heads of families, as well as the correspondence of the town council with the superior authorities pertaining to the Jewish community and the settlement of Jews. Records related to Jews can be located and identified by the alphabetical indexes.
V.142. c. Administrative records, 1848-1871. This part of the collection includes, but is not limited to, contracts with Jewish shop- and inn keepers, requests and petitions by leaseholders and other individuals to pay out (megváltás) military quartering, requests for trade and sales permits, leases of market tents, matters of residence permits and naturalization, matters of violations of economic regulations, warrants of caption, exemption from military service and other duties, extabulatio and intabulatio (be- és kitáblázások) and other financial transactions, and magyarisations of names. Furthermore, the collection holds several records concerning Jewish communities, including the establishment of Jewish schools and organisations, appointments of community officials, settlement of Jewish individuals, lease matters of pubs and butcheries, matters concerning community tax and school taxes, elections of representatives, accounts of social organisations and schools, submissions of registers of births, marriages and deaths, requests for school and social aid, organisation of charitable events and many other matters.
V.142. d-f. This part of the collection includes conscriptions of the property of inhabitants (vagyonösszeírások) and state census records from 1850, 1857 and 1869, which contain plenty of information on the Jewish community as well, including its social stratification, housing, occupation, economic activities, financial status and many other indicators.
V.142. g. Military records, including conscriptions of recruits (állítási lajstromok) and men of military age (hadkötelesek) from the years 1850-1871.
V.142. j. Private contracts, 1850-1851, including records of various kinds of business transactions between Jews and non-Jews.
V.142. k. Records of land registries, 1854-1860, which hold records of sale and mortgage of real estate, including urban and landed property.
- Archival history:
- The records of the town council were taken over by the Mayor’s Office in the 1870s and by its successor, the City Council of Kiskunlacháza, in 1950. The City Council handed over the collection of the Council of the Town of Kiskunlacháza in the early 1970s to the Pest County Archives.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- The first meeting of the Town Council of Kiskunlacháza in the post-feudal era is dated 1850. The Town Council was the main executive body in the social, economic, personal, financial and organisational matters of the town and its vicinity. The head of the Council was the mayor, appointed by the superior authorities before 1861 and elected by the council of representatives after 1861. From 1872 onwards, the council was put under the jurisdiction of the Municipal Committee and many functions were taken by the mayor’s office.
- Access points: locations:
- Kiskunlacháza
- System of arrangement:
- The collection is divided into 11 provenance groups, numbered V.142. a-k., the most relevant of which are the Protocols of the town council meetings (V.142. a.), Administrative records (V. 142. c.), Conscriptions (civil and military, V. 142. d-g.), Private contracts (V. 142. j) and Land registry Records (V. 142. k.) The records are mostly arranged by basic numbers, re-started each year. The protocols of the town council meetings are arranged chronologically.
- Finding aids:
-
Original alphabetical indexes and registries are available for the collection.
Ernő Lakatos, ed: A Magyar Állami Levéltárak fondjegyzéke, Vol. III. A Területi Levéltárak fondjegyzékei Part 13. A Pest Megyei Levéltár fondjainak jegyzéke. Budapest: Magyar Országos Levéltár, 1975.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Hungarian Jewish Museum and Archives
- Author of the description:
- László Csősz; Hungarian National Archives; 05-12-2015 (In cooperation with the European Holocaust Research Infrastructure)
