Metadata: Estate of Slavkov u Brna
Collection
- Country:
- Czechia
- Holding institution:
- Moravian Provincial Archives in Brno
- Holding institution (official language):
- Moravský zemský archiv v Brně
- Postal address:
- Palachovo náměstí 1, Brno, 62500
- Phone number:
- 00420 533 317 224
- Web address:
- http://www.mza.cz/
- Email:
- badatelna@mza.cz
- Reference number:
- 285
- Title:
- Estate of Slavkov u Brna
- Title (official language):
- Velkostatek Slavkov u Brna
- Creator/accumulator:
- Estate of Slavkov u Brna
- Date(s):
- 1483/1947
- Language:
- Czech
- German
- Extent:
- 75.25 linear metres
- Scope and content:
- The fonds contains documents of the patrimonial authority of the manor and economic management of the estate. The following books (today kept in fonds C 17 Land registries) concern the Jewish community in Rousínov: Land registry of Jewish houses 1787–1884; Book of male and female seats in synagogue 1787–1870; Book of male and female seats in new synagogue (1787) 1817–1873; Book of male seats in small new synagogue 1817–1868; Book of charters IV 1839–1850; Book of bonds IV (1790) 1832–1850; Book of contracts for male and female seats in old and new synagogue 1817–1850. These books (also in fonds C 17 Land Registries) concern the Jewish community in Slavkov: Land registry of Jewish houses 1787–1888; Book of male and female seats in synagogue 1787–1870; Book of contracts III 1841–1850; Book of bonds III 1845-1850; Land registry 1808-1880; Book of vineyards in Kozí hory 1787–1880. These items also concern the Jews on the Slavkov manor: Jews 1832–1850; Jewish taxes 1812–1849; Jewish familiants in Slavkov 1787–1848; Jewish familiants in Rousínov 1792–1849; Jewish marriages 1786–1850; Disputes with Jewish community in Slavkov 1850–1861; Plan of several Jewish houses (in Slavkov), undated.
- Archival history:
- The beginnings of the Slavkov archive merge with the chateau archive of the Kaunitz family kept at the Slavkov chateau. In 1910-1912 the archival records were taken from the Slavkov chateau to the Moravian Provincial Archives in Brno. The rest of the documents were taken in 1950 to the Agricultural-Forestry Archives in Bučovice, from where they transferred to the Moravian Provincial Archives in Brno in 1953, where they were arranged in 1956. Other documents were attached to all the Slavkov archival records, and in 1979 they were re-arranged and inventoried.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- Slavkov, originally belonging to territorial lords, belonged to an order of German knights back in the 13th century. In 1525 the Kaunitz family became the owners of the Slavkov manor. After the Moravian branch of the Kaunitz family died out in the mid-19th century, the manor passed to the Bohemian branch of the family. The death of Dr. Eugen Kaunitz in 1919 was followed by a dispute about the manor lasting several years, until it was gained by Josef Pálffy in 1923. After 1945 the Slavkov estate was confiscated, placed under national administration and later taken over by the state. On the territory of the manor there were large Jewish communities in Slavkov u Brna and Rousínov.
- Access points: locations:
- Kozí hory
- Rousínov
- Slavkov u Brna
- System of arrangement:
- The fonds is divided into Official books, Files and Maps and plans.
- Access, restrictions:
- The fond is only partly accessible.
- Finding aids:
- Novák F, Zaoralová M: Velkostatek Slavkov u Brna (1483) 1592-1947. Inventář, 1979, s. 222, ev.č. 1393.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Jewish Museum Prague
- Author of the description:
- JMP Survey, 2015.
