Metadata: District Office of Mikulov
Collection
- Country:
- Czechia
- Holding institution:
- State District Archives of Břeclav located in Mikulov
- Holding institution (official language):
- Státní okresní archiv Břeclav se sídlem v Mikulově
- Postal address:
- Pavlovská 2, Mikulov, 692 24
- Phone number:
- 00420 519 500 061
- Email:
- soka_breclav@mza.cz
- Reference number:
- 1
- Title:
- District Office of Mikulov
- Title (official language):
- Okresní úřad Mikulov
- Creator/accumulator:
- District Office of Mikulov
- Date(s):
- 1836/1945
- Language:
- German
- Czech
- Extent:
- 42.46 linear metres
- Scope and content:
- The fonds contains written documents from the political administration of the district of Mikulov. Jews are explicitly mentioned in the following documents: In the association agenda the following associations in Mikulov are specified: Frauen-Wohltätigkeitsverein für die israelitische Kultusgemeinde 1933–1938, Nikolsburger israelitisches Versorgungshaus 1935–1938, Wohltätigkeitsverein “Chewra Kadischa und Gemilus Chessedin” 1933–1936, Nikolsburger israelitischen Frauenverein “Nächstenliebe” 1933–1938, Jüdischer Turnverein “Makkabi” 1926–1938, Local Zionist Group 1933–1938, Wizo organisation of Jewish women 1933–1937, Association of Jewish Central Museum for Moravia-Silesia 1935–1938; in Pohořelice: Chewra Kadischa Verein 1933–1935, Verein für Turnen und Sport “Makkabi” 1920–1938. The unarranged part of the fonds contains census records from 1921 for locations with Jewish communities or Jewish settlement: Lednice, Mikulov, Pohořelice, Valtice. Attention should also be devoted to written documents on domicile right and state citizenship, trades register, ecclesiastical and educational matters, foundations.
- Archival history:
- The fonds suffered considerable losses during the battles at the end of the Second World War in 1945 and only some documents have survived. They were transferred to the Břeclav District State Archives in Mikulov, where the fonds was arranged in 1960 and 1963.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- The District Office in Mikulov (Nikolsburg in German) was established on 1 February 1850 as the Bezirkshauptmannschaft (District Head Office). In the period of 1855-1868 it operated as a political and judicial district office, i.e. it simultaneously exercised political and judicial administration. In 1868 its jurisdiction was reduced to political administration with the name of the District Head Office. After the foundation of the Republic of Czechoslovakia the office was renamed District Political Administration in 1919 and in the period of 1928-1938 it became District Office. After the occupation of the Czechoslovak border region by Nazi Germany, the jurisdiction of the Mikulov District Office was taken over by the Mikulov Landrat. The Political District of Mikulov covered two judicial districts: Mikulov - with the Jewish community in Mikulov, and from 1867 in Lednice; and judicial district of Pohořelice with the Jewish community in Pohořelice. After 1920 the administration of the Mikulov District Office also covered the town of Valtice, which had previously belonged to the country of Lower Austria (Niederösterreich).
- Access points: locations:
- Lednice
- Mikulov
- Nikolsburg
- Pohorelice
- Valtice
- Subject terms:
- Aid and relief
- Aid and relief--Philanthropy and charity
- Census records
- Citizenship
- Education
- Hevrah kadisha
- Jewish community
- Museums
- Residency issues of Jews
- Sports
- Sports--Sports clubs
- Trade and commerce
- Zionism
- Zionism--WIZO (Women's International Zionist Organization)
- Zionism--Zionist organisations and parties
- System of arrangement:
- The fonds is structured into the following groups: official books; auxiliary books; files (fragments of registry arranged according to material call numbers or material groups and chronologically); accounting dossiers.
- Access, restrictions:
- The collection is only partly accessible.
- Finding aids:
- Zemek M, Zimáková A: Okresní úřad Mikulov 1851 - 1938 (1939 - 1945). Inventář, 1963, s. 43, ev.č. 181.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Jewish Museum Prague
- Author of the description:
- JMP Survey, 2015.