Historical Collection (Family Archive) of the Clam-Gallas House, Frýdlant

Collection

Holding institution (official language):: Státní oblastní archiv v Litoměřicích

Title:: Historical Collection (Family Archive) of the Clam-Gallas House, Frýdlant

Title (official language):: Historická sbírka (rodinný archiv) Clam-Gallasů, Frýdlant

Creator/accumulator:: Historical Collection (Family Archive) of the Clam-Gallas House, Frýdlant

Scope and content:: Among other things, the collection contains the estate of the archive keeper Josef Bergl (1874-1952) who also addressed the history of the Jews, in particular their expulsion from Prague in 1744-1748. The estate contains literature (monographs, brochures) about Jewish history predominantly of an antisemitic nature from 1869-1932, scientific studies are also included (inv. № 2429).

Archival history:: The collection was artificially compiled in the 19th century from documents which came from the activity of administration of the property of the North-Bohemian manors (Frýdlant, Liberec, Grabštejn, Lemberk), from documents of the family and ancestral archives of the Bieberstein, Redern, Gallas, Clam and Clam-Gallas families and documents of affiliated families and individual persons (Josef Bergl, Kurt Oberdorffer and others). The collection was inventoried in 1993-1996 and an index of places, people and items was added.

Administrative/biographical history:: The creator of the collection is the family of Clam Gallas from Frýdlant. Josef Bergl worked in their family archives. Josef Bergl was born on 6 September 1874 in Doksy. He was taken on by the Vice Regency Archives in Prague in 1900. In 1914, he transferred to the rectorate of the German University in Prague and after six years to the Archives of the Ministry of the Interior (formerly the Vice Regency Archives). In 1933, he published a list of Judaica in the Archives of the Ministry of the Interior in Prague. He was pensioned off in 1935. He went to Frýdlant, where he worked at the chateau as archivist of the Clam-Gallas family archive. He was also active in the field of heritage care for the district of Frýdlant and in several historical and archival societies. He went to Germany after the war. He died in 1952 in the Bavarian town of Oettingen.

Subject terms:: Antisemitism; Expulsion; Historical research; Literature; Literature--Novels, poetry, and plays; Professions; Professions--Scholars (secular), scientists, and academics

System of arrangement:: The collection is structured into two parts. The first is ordered according to the original subject organisation created in the 19th century into 22 groups. The second part without original call numbers is organised according to the principles for organisation of family archives. Here the estate of Josef Bergl is also stored in 18 boxes.

Finding aids:: Smíšková H: Rodinný archiv (Historická Sbírka) Clam-Gallas (1238)1529-1947. Inventář, 1996, s. 306, ev. č. 1038.