Moravian Viceregency-patents

Collection

Scope and content:: The fonds contains several official collections of patents and circulars of the former tribunal, land government and vice regency. It also includes many sources concerning the Jewish population from the second half of the 18th century in the following records: Christening of Jewish children 1810; Deportation of foreign Jews 1725; Jewish matters 1725–1836; Reduction of Jews 1726–1752; Jewish contribution 1752–1850; Jewish craftsmen 1755; Jewish judicature 1763–1846; Education of Jews 1782; Jewish gymnasium students 1782; Jewish matrimonial matters 1785–1827; Jewish judicature 1785–1846; Abolition of Jewish head tax 1786; Surnames of Jews 1787; Jewish excise duty 1787–1848; Prohibition on Jewish trade in grain 1802–1819; Prohibition on Jews trading in items used for religious service 1828; Police misdemeanours of Jews 1829; Granting places of Jewish familianten 1833; Oaths of Jews 1846; Prohibition on selling hides to Jews 1752; Religious matters: Christening of Jewish children 1787; Jewish usurers 1753–1757; Jewish schools 1751–1856; Jewish matters 1725–1859; Christenings of Jews 1765–1838; Religious tolerance 1780–1855.

Archival history:: The documents of the fonds were kept by the creator (Moravian vice regency) and its predecessor (Moravia–Silesia land government, tribunal). The fonds was received at the current Moravian Provincial Archives in 1944 from the former Land Office and was arranged in 1954. Patents and circulars of the tribunal and land government are also kept in other collections of patents and are also kept in certain other fonds of the Moravian Provincial Archives.

Administrative/biographical history:: The Moravian Viceregency was the supreme political office in Moravia in the years 1849 to 1918. It was created in 1849 through the reorganisation of the Moravian-Silesian Land Government. In 1849 Austrian Silesia was removed from the competence of the vice regency, apart from the brief period of 1860-1861, when both lands were temporarily merged. The field of competence of the vice regency as the supreme state office in Moravia, i.e., in the land as an administrative province of the Austrian monarchy, was regulated by a law of 1868. This state lasted until the end of the monarchy in 1918.

Subject terms:: Antisemitism; Antisemitism--Antisemitic legislation; Conversion to Christianity; Education; Education--Schools and universities; Education--Students; Expulsion; Financial matters; Financial matters--Moneylending; Law enforcement; Law enforcement--Police; Legal matters; Marriage and divorce; Professions; Professions--Crafts; Residency issues of Jews; Trade and commerce

System of arrangement:: Part of the fonds is ordered chronologically and part according to subject keywords. The fonds is divided into: 1) Patents; 2) Original rescripts and regulations; 3) Lithographs, printed circulars of the vice regency.

Finding aids:: Radimský J: Moravské místodržitelství-patenty 1628-1880. Prozatímní inventární seznam, 1954, s. 53, ev. č. 181.