Metadata: Archive of the Town of Boskovice
Collection
- Country:
- Czechia
- Holding institution:
- State District Archives Blansko
- Holding institution (official language):
- Státní okresní archiv Blansko
- Postal address:
- Komenského 9, Blansko, 678 01
- Phone number:
- 00420 516 419 837
- Email:
- soka_blansko@mza.cz
- Reference number:
- 2
- Title:
- Archive of the Town of Boskovice
- Title (official language):
- Archiv města Boskovice
- Creator/accumulator:
- Town of Boskovice
- Date(s):
- 1463/1953
- Language:
- Czech
- German
- Latin
- Extent:
- 53.18 linear metres
- Scope and content:
-
The fonds contains written documents on the history of the Jewish community in Boskovice. They include the following: application of the Jewish community regarding a rabbi from 1734, a report on the murder of two Jews on the estate of Rájec from 1743 and the interrogation of two Jews at the High Justice Court in Doubravice due to theft in 1744, a description of the boundaries of the Jewish town from 1826, the sale of land for the extension of the Jewish cemetery from 1832-1833, repair of the well in the Jewish town from 1834, legal status of 11 Boskovice Jews, construction of a staircase to the synagogue with ground plan from 1833-1841, dispute with the Jewish community concerning the pasture by the Jewish cemetery from 1863, plan of Jewish town from 1871, allocation of finances to the Jewish community from the Foundation of Count von Dietrichstein from 1884, distribution of finances from the Löw-Beer Foundation from 1891, undertaking of property of the dissolved Jewish Gesangverein Association from 1897, copy of foundation charter of Julie Gomperzová for daughters of the Boskovice teachers from 1898, relations of local Jews to Czechs from 1922.
The following documents relate to the period of the holocaust: applications of Austrian Jews for residence permit from 1938, itemisation of “non-Aryan” property from 1939, lists of members of Jewish religious community in Boskovice, Jevíčko and elsewhere in the district from 1939, exclusion of Jews from civil rights from 1940, persons appropriate for forced administration (Treuhänder) from 1941, Jewish tenants from 1941, family statements of persons from Jewish town from 1941, contributions from Jewish houses from 1942 and list of Boskovice Jews from 1941-1942.
The fonds also includes a list of citizens of the town by street from 1919.
- Archival history:
- The documents were looked after very carefully by the creator, who transferred them at an unspecified time to the Blansko District State Archives.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- The oldest mention of Boskovice occurs in the year 1222, and since the early modern period it has been termed a town. Boskovice was the seat of the nobility and belonged to various aristocratic families (among others Boskovice, Zástřizly and Dietrichstein). After Emperor Joseph’s reforms a regulated municipality office was established in the town. From the 16th century at the latest, a Jewish settlement is documented in the town. During the period of 1848-1920 the town was home to a Jewish political community, which in 1920 was merged with the Christian community. During the period of 1850-1960 Boskovice was the seat of a Political and Judicial District.
- Access points: persons/families:
- Gomperzová, Julie
- Subject terms:
- Antisemitism
- Antisemitism--Antisemitic measures
- Architecture
- Cemeteries
- Civil rights
- Crime
- Financial matters
- Holocaust
- Jewish community
- Jewish community records
- Jewish-Christian relations
- Legal matters
- Legal status of Jews
- Maps
- Plunder
- Plunder--Aryanisation
- Rabbis
- Real estate
- Residency issues of Jews
- Synagogues
- System of arrangement:
- The fonds is structured as follows: charters, official books (before 1850, after 1850), files (the file periods before 1850 and after 1850 are internally structured according to material call numbers), accounting dossiers.
- Access, restrictions:
- The collection is only partly accessible.
- Finding aids:
- Chalupa L, Skutil J: Archiv města Boskovice 1463 - 1945 (1956). Inventář, 1973, s. 60, ev.č. 11.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Jewish Museum Prague
- Author of the description:
- JMP Survey, 2015.
