Metadata: Archive of the City of Brno-Presidial Registry I
Collection
- Country:
- Czechia
- Holding institution:
- Archives of the City of Brno
- Holding institution (official language):
- Archiv města Brna
- Postal address:
- Přední 2, Brno-Černovice, 618 00
- Phone number:
- 00420 542 173 612
- Web address:
- http://www.archiv.brno.cz/index.php?nav01=1734
- Email:
- amb@brno.cz
- Reference number:
- 1/25
- Title:
- Archive of the City of Brno-Presidial Registry I
- Title (official language):
- Archiv města Brna-Presidiální spisovna I.
- Creator/accumulator:
- Presidium of the City of Brno I
- Date(s):
- 1831/1887
- Language:
- Czech
- German
- Extent:
- 4.59 linear metres
- Scope and content:
- The fonds contains archival records concerning the City of Brno’s history during the period 1831-1887. The fonds also contains important sources of the Jewish history, especially materials documenting the activities of Brno Jews in the field of welfare (donations to the poor, etc.) from the period 1852-1887, and the endeavours of the City of Brno and representative authorities to fight the manifestations of antisemitism in the City during the period 1881-1883. Furthermore found there can be materials concerning the public activities of Julius and Heinrich Gomperz and other sources to particular issues: k.k. (kaiserlich-königlich-Imperial-Royal) Regional Government to the Mayor of Brno in the matter of measures aimed at preventing demonstrations of local Jews against the Emperor’s Patent restricting Jews from acquiring property (1853); The Mayor of Brno to the k.k. Moravian Vicegerent-a report on the outcome of investigating Hungarian Jews for illegal flour trading (1855); The Brno flour traders to the Presidium of Brno city municipal council-request to prevent the illegal flour trade by Jews from Mikulov (1857); The Mayor of the City of Brno to the k.k. Moravian vicegerency-comments to the submitted draft statutes of the Jewish Religious Community in Brno (1859); The Mayor of the City of Prague to the Mayor of the City of Brno-information inter alia about the Jewish Community in Prague (1859); Ant. Redlichová, chairwoman of the Society of Jewish Ladies in Brno to the Mayor of Brno-an annual report about the Society’s activities during the period 1880–1881 (1881); The Deputy Mayor to the firm Ad. Löw son in Brno-a certificate of the good reputation of this firm which was bidding for the contract to supply cloth to the Bulgarian Army (1885); The Mayor of the City of Brno to the Presidium of the Chamber of Commerce and Trade in Brno announces that the firm Leop. Löw Beer in Brno was twice fined for breaching Act №. 22 of 1885 (1887).
- Archival history:
- No detailed information about the fonds’ history exists. It was arranged in the Brno City Archives in the mid-1950s.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- The Presidial Registry was established by keeping separately files which were dealt with by the Presidium of the Brno Municipality Office during the period 1831–1887. When submitted the files were exhibited, and after being dealt with kept in the Registry. From 1885 on, the Mayor handled some less important files directly without having them exhibited. Later such files were every year sent to the Registry as duly exhibited files.
- Access points: persons/families:
- Redlichová, A
- Finding aids:
- Burian V: Presidiální spisovna z let 1831-1887. I. 1831-1845. II. 1846-1859. III. 1860-1887. Inventář, 1957, 897 s., ev. č. 53.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Jewish Museum Prague
- Author of the description:
- JMP Survey, 2015.
