Metadata: Estate of Veselí nad Moravou
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:
- 359
- Title:
- Estate of Veselí nad Moravou
- Title (official language):
- Velkostatek Veselí nad Moravou
- Creator/accumulator:
- Estate of Veselí nad Moravou
- Date(s):
- 1621/1944
- Language:
- Czech
- German
- Extent:
- 58.04 linear metres
- Scope and content:
- The fonds contains documents of the patrimonial authority of the manor and economic management of the manor estate. The following items concern Jewish matters: Jewish community in Veselí (renewals of community council, lists of Jews, synagogue) 1727-1849; Matters of Jewish registries 1807-1849; Requests for family places and marriage permits 1801-1849; Budgets of Jewish community, estimates of Jewish property, taxes 1841-1848.
- Archival history:
- After the Second World War the estate archive was transferred to the Agricultural-Forestry Archives in Bučovice, from where it was handed over to the branch of the then State Archives in Uherské Hradiště in Kroměříž. Today it is kept in the Moravian Provincial Archives in Brno, where it was arranged in 1968-1969.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- Veselí nad Moravou was the centre of a manor owned by various noble houses, from the 18th century the Chorynský house, who claimed German nationality during the Second World War. In 1945 they were deported and their property confiscated. There was a Jewish community in Veselí nad Moravou on the territory of the manor.
- Access points: locations:
- Veselí nad Moravou
- System of arrangement:
- The fonds contains Official books, Assisting books, Files, Maps and plans, and Technical drawings.
- Access, restrictions:
- The fond is only partly accessible.
- Finding aids:
- Kyasová V, Zaoralová M: Velkostatek Veselí nad Moravou (1621) 1652-1944. Inventář, 1969, s. 122, ev.č. 1421.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Jewish Museum Prague
- Author of the description:
- JMP Survey, 2015.