Metadata: Archive of the City of Ústí nad Labem
Collection
- Country:
- Czechia
- Holding institution:
- Archives of the City of Ústí nad Labem
- Holding institution (official language):
- Archiv města Ústí nad Labem
- Postal address:
- Hrnčířská 65/2, Ústí nad Labem, 400 01
- Phone number:
- 00420475271383
- Reference number:
- 29
- Title:
- Archive of the City of Ústí nad Labem
- Title (official language):
- Archiv města Ústí nad Labem
- Creator/accumulator:
- City of Ústí nad Labem
- Date(s):
- 1325/1945
- Language:
- Czech
- German
- Latin
- Extent:
- 224 linear metres
- Physical condition:
- poor
- Scope and content:
- The fonds contains documents from the municipal administration of the royal town of Ústí nad Labem. Prior to 1848 there are only isolated edicts relating to Jews: edict of Francis II on Jews 1797, payment of salt tax by Jews 1811, payment of taxes by Jews 1816, baptism of children of Christianised Jews 1810 or permission for peddling with domestic goods for Jews 1764. Specific urban problems are reflected by files such as a complaint from paper mills on Jews increasing the prices of rags 1796, or the Propination laws (Iuseducilli, right to draft a beer) for Jews in Sobědruhy 1800-1801. From the period after 1850 are domicile rights books, applications of residence permit 1900-1945, documents concerning confiscations of 1938, and Jewish grain 1938-1944. Included are also construction documents for the houses of Jewish residents, stored in the construction intermediate repository. The matters of associations can also provide information on the Jewish community, as can the files of the municipal cemetery, as it contained a Jewish section from 1893 onward, and the municipal theatre, where Jewish artists from Germany bid for parts, particularly after 1933.
- Archival history:
- The documents of the municipal administration were stored at the town hall. After 1850 they were moved several times until they were transferred to the building set aside for the town archives in 1939. In 1954 they became part of the State District Archives Ústí nad Labem. The fonds had been partially arranged since the 1880s, but was not arranged by professional archivists until 1971. Over the following years, further archival materials from the activities of the municipal authority were added to the fonds. These additional documents are currently not arranged. Since 1986 the fonds has been part of the Ústí nad Labem Town Archives due to reorganisation of the administration for the Ústí nad Labem district.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- The town Ústí nad Labem was first mentioned as royal town in 1249. In 1788 a controlled town council was established and an independent municipality was formed in 1849. Since 1850 it has been a seat of the political and judicial district. In 1938-1945 it became part of Reichsgau Sudetenland (Sudeten Region). There was no Jewish community in town before 1848. The influx of Jews only began with the development of industrial enterprise in the second half of the 19th century, despite the efforts of the municipal council to restrict Jewish trade and entrepreneurial activities. In 1863 a Jewish religious association was founded and in 1869 a religious community was permitted. During the period between 1900 and 1938 the number of Jews here was higher than the national average. In 1938 Jews left the town to flee the Nazis; those who remained became victims of Nazi persecution.
- Access points: locations:
- Sobědruhy
- Ústí nad Labem
- System of arrangement:
- The fonds is divided into: I. Deeds, II. Official books a) up until 1850, b) after 1850, III. Files a) registry finding aids, b) files up to 1860, c) files 1860-1945, IV. Accounting material.
- Access, restrictions:
- The fond is only partly accessible.
- Finding aids:
- Dušek L., Archiv města Ústí nad Labem 1325-1945, Inventář, 1972, 267 s., ev.č. 24; Bouček J., Kartotéka obyvatelstva města a okresu Ústí nad Labem 1900-1949, Inventář 1975, 12 s., ev.č. 3.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Jewish Museum Prague
- Author of the description:
- JMP Survey, 2015.