Metadata: Regional Government of Cheb
Collection
- Country:
- Czechia
- Holding institution:
- State Regional Archives in Plzeň
- Holding institution (official language):
- Státní oblastní archiv v Plzni
- Postal address:
- Sedláčkova 44, Plzeň, 306 12
- Phone number:
- 00420 377 236 263
- Web address:
- http://www.soaplzen.cz/
- Email:
- podatelna@soaplzen.cz
- Reference number:
- 10270
- Title:
- Regional Government of Cheb
- Title (official language):
- Krajská vláda Cheb
- Creator/accumulator:
- Regional Government in Cheb
- Date(s):
- 1661/1855
- Language:
- German
- Hungarian
- Extent:
- 22.64 linear metres
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
- The fonds contains archival records from the Regional Government of Cheb which provide economic, social, political, religious and cultural background for the Cheb region. Almost the whole fonds has been preserved. For the study of Jewish history, files from the following series will be of particular interest: Department 3 (Municipal matters), Department 4 (Citizenship, domicile right and marital matters) and Department 5 (Religion and the clergy). In Department 3 (Municipal matters) this concerns the following documents: inv. № 81, call. № 3/1, box № 38 (Jewish matters, (1848) 1850-1854), inv. № 162, call. № 3/96, box № 47 (Luka, Jewish matters, (1838) 1850-1852). In Department 4 (Citizenship, domicile right), valuable information is contained in inv. № 436, call. № 4/1, box № 58 (Emigration to America and Sweden, Jews - expulsion from the municipality, (1848) 1850-1855), inv. № 437-460, call. № 4/2 to 4/25, box № 58-67 (Matters of emigration of individuals, (1843) 1850-1855). In Department 5 (Religion and the clergy), attention should be paid to inv. № 485, call. № 5/1, box № 72 (Jewish matters, New Jerusalem sect, (1849) 1850-1855), inv. № 486-504, call. № 5/2 to 5/25, box № 72-88 (Religious matters of individual church institutions and priests, (1777) 1850-1855), inv. № 497, call. № 5/18, box № 81 (Salomon Sachs, the regional Rabbi for Loket and Žatec, (1848) 1850-1853), inv. № 505-512, call. № 5/30 to 5/45, box № 88 (Religious matters of individuals, 1850-1855).
- Archival history:
- After dissolution of the Regional Government in Cheb its registry was administered by the successor offices. In 1938 the whole registry was taken over by the Municipal Archives in Cheb, where the fonds was arranged. In 1959, the fonds was transferred to the State Archives in Kadaň, from where it was taken to the State Archives in Plzeň. In 1974, the fonds was taken to the Regional State Archives in Plzeň, where it was gradually arranged and an inventory prepared in 2004.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- The Regional Government in Cheb commenced its activity in 1850. The office was dissolved in 1855.
- Access points: persons/families:
- Sachs, Salomon
- Finding aids:
- Novotná L: Krajská vláda Cheb. Inventáře a katalogy Státního oblastního archivu v Plzni, Plzeň, 2004, 87 s., ev. č. 505.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Jewish Museum Prague
- Author of the description:
- JMP Survey, 2015.