Metadata: Estate of Brtnice
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:
- 287
- Title:
- Estate of Brtnice
- Title (official language):
- Velkostatek Brtnice
- Creator/accumulator:
- Estate of Brtnice
- Date(s):
- 1537/1963
- Language:
- Czech
- German
- Extent:
- 88.18 linear metres
- Scope and content:
- The fonds contains documents of patrimonial authority of the manor and economic administration of the vestigial estate. The following items concern Jewish matters: Deaths of Jews 1790-1849; Book of records of births of Jews 1847-1849; Applications for Jewish places 1834-1849; Occupancy of Jewish family places 1809-1849; Jewish taxes 1836-1851; Proceedings about taxes and recovery of taxes 1833-1849; Appeals and prosecutions for taxes 1819-1848; Purchase and renting of Christian apartments 1797-1848; School 1798-1849; Poorhouse 1794-1848; Religion 1790-1849; Foundations 1808-1848; Files about various political and police matters 1784-1849; Jews miscellanea: discussions about construction of Jewish community house in Brtnice 1798-1849; various files 1846-1849; Miscellanea 1843-1850.
- Archival history:
- Until 1947 the archive of the estate was kept at Brtnice chateau. It was then transferred to the Třebíč Archives. The economic forestry plans and part of the accounts were taken over in 1956. Today it is kept in the Moravian Provincial Archives in Brno. The documents were arranged in 1956-1957 and were inventoried in 1963.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- Brtnice was the centre of a manor owned by various noble houses. From 1623 this was the Collalt house, who held it until the end of the Second World War, when the entire property was confiscated. The Jewish community in Brtnice was on the territory of the manor.
- Access points: locations:
- Brtnice
- Subject terms:
- Aid and relief
- Aid and relief--Philanthropy and charity
- Education
- Education--Schools and universities
- Jewish community
- Jewish political activity
- Jewish-Christian relations
- Law enforcement
- Law enforcement--Police
- Nobility
- Poverty
- Residency issues of Jews
- Vital records
- Vital records--Birth records
- Vital records--Death records
- System of arrangement:
- The fonds contains Official and Assisting books, Files, Maps and Plans. Some of the fonds was arranged according to an old registry system, documents without call numbers according to subject.
- Access, restrictions:
- The fond is only partly accessible.
- Finding aids:
- Ježková M: Velkostatek Brtnice (1537) 1562-1947 (1963). Inventář, 1963, s. 61, ev.č. 1263.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Jewish Museum Prague
- Author of the description:
- JMP Survey, 2015.
