Metadata: Archive of the Town of Letovice
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:
- 4
- Title:
- Archive of the Town of Letovice
- Title (official language):
- Archiv města Letovice
- Creator/accumulator:
- Town of Letovice
- Date(s):
- 1490/1945
- Language:
- Czech
- German
- Extent:
- 14.2 linear metres
- Scope and content:
- The fonds comprises documents from the town of Letovice, including a number of items from the period of the holocaust: list of honorary citizenships allocated to local Jews from 1940, indication of Jews, closure of synagogues and measures against Czechs friendly to Jewish community from 1941.
- Archival history:
- The documents were originally stored in the town hall. In 1943 they were transferred to the Moravian Provincial Archives in Brno and in 1964 to the District State Archives in Blansko. The fonds was supplemented here and arranged in 1966.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- The oldest written mention of Letovice occurs in the year 1145. The market town was the centre of an estate, which until 1848 was owned by various aristocratic families. After 1848 it was an independent municipality and in 1936 was raised to the status of a town. There was never any continuous Jewish settlement in Letovice. During the period of 1850-1949, Letovice belonged to the Political and Judicial District of Boskovice.
- Access points: locations:
- Letovice
- System of arrangement:
- The fonds is structured as follows: I. Charters, II. Official books, III. Files, IV. Accounting dossiers.
- Access, restrictions:
- The collection is only partly accessible.
- Finding aids:
- Henzlová M, Hubáček A, Skutil J, Wetterová M: Archiv města Letovice 1490 - 1945 (1952). Inventář, 1966, s. 50, ev.č. 17.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Jewish Museum Prague
- Author of the description:
- JMP Survey, 2015.