Metadata: Archive of the Town of Valtice
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:
- 133
- Title:
- Archive of the Town of Valtice
- Title (official language):
- Archiv města Valtice
- Creator/accumulator:
- Town of Valtice
- Date(s):
- 1295/1944
- Language:
- German
- Czech
- Extent:
- 15.84 linear metres
- Scope and content:
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For the study of Jewish history, the following files will be of particular interest: patents on prohibition of Hebrew names and regulations on Jewish communities from 1787; prohibition of sale of corn to Moravian Jews from 1806-1819, lease of the collection of tithes of the Jewish community from 1842, complaints from Jews about hostile behaviour from Christians from 1848, list of Jewish shops from 1848, various matters of members of the Jewish community in the town 1846-1848, also construction (building) files on the bridge in the Jewish quarter of the town 1845-1850.
Relevant information can also be expected in the files on the elections from 1850-1938 and in the construction files on individual buildings from the 2nd half of the 19th century and the 1st half of the 20th century, where owners of Jewish origin are also clearly stated. Information about the Jewish population is undoubtedly also contained in other written documents of the town, primarily the lands agenda, death registers from 1881-1882, 1888-1897 and also the town privileges from the 17th century.
- Archival history:
- The documents were transferred from the town of Valtice to the Břeclav District State Archives in Mikulov in 1961 and 1965. They were arranged there in 1963-1965.
- Administrative/biographical history:
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The town of Valtice (in German Feldsberg) historically belonged to the country of Lower Austria and was not granted to Czechoslovakia until the peace treaty of Saint-Germain in 1919, its actual transfer taking place in 1920. The history of the Jewish community here therefore pertain to the history of the Jews in Austria.
The first mentions of the town of Valtice occur at the end of the 12th century. At the end of the 14th century the town of Valtice was gained by the house of Liechtenstein, to which it belonged until 1848. Valtice was the centre of an estate of the same name. After 1848 Valtice belonged to the judicial districts of Valtice in 1850-1920 and of Mikulov in 1920-1949, and to the political districts of Poysdorf (today in Austria) in 1850-1855, to Valtice in 1855-1868, to Mistelbach (today in Austria), and in 1920-1949 to Mikulov.
In the early modern period a Jewish community lived in Valtice, which was expelled in the years 1669/1670 during the expulsion of Jews from the whole of Austria. Jews again began to settle in Valtice in the 19th century.
- Access points: locations:
- Valtice
- System of arrangement:
- The fonds is structured as follows: I. Charters; II. Clerical books; III. Files: A. Auxiliary books, B. Files, C. Accounting dossiers.
- Access, restrictions:
- The collection is only partly accessible.
- Finding aids:
- Zemek M, Zimáková A: Archiv městský úřad Valtice 1295-1944. Inventář, 1965, s. 50, ev.č. 118.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Jewish Museum Prague
- Author of the description:
- JMP Survey, 2015.
