Metadata: District Court of Hustopeče
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:
- 32
- Title:
- District Court of Hustopeče
- Title (official language):
- Okresní soud Hustopeče
- Creator/accumulator:
- District Court of Hustopeče
- Date(s):
- 1850/1950
- Language:
- German
- Czech
- Extent:
- 125.97 linear metres
- Scope and content:
- The fonds contains written documents from the civil and criminal District Court in Hustopeče. Its significance for Jewish history lies primarily in the probate and inheritance files (call number D, later call number IV, then A and later again D) from 1850-1948, dealing with inheritance proceedings from deceased persons, including those of Jewish origin, or guardianship files (call number E, later call number IVb and call number P), which dealt with the granting of guardianship and administration of property of minors, extramarital children or persons from whom legal status had been withdrawn for reasons of sickness or alcoholism. These files are of great significance for Jewish genealogy and for the study of social or property relations. Relevant information may also be contained in the court registers from 1898-1938 with indices and lists of names from 1885-1938, as well as various disputes and criminal cases dealt with by this court and written records of real estate, primarily land registers and collections of documents for land registers.
- Archival history:
- The written documents were stored by the creator. In the 1950s the older part up to 1923 was transferred to the State Archives in Brno (today the Moravian Provincial Archives), where they were partially arranged. The remainder of the documents from 1924 onwards were transferred by the District Court in Břeclav to the Břeclav District State Archives in 1965. The fonds was arranged here in 1970.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- The District Court in Hustopeče (Auspitz in German) was established in 1850. It operated with minor alterations to its territorial jurisdiction until 1949. The jurisdiction of this court covered the Jewish religious community in Hustopeče.
- Subject terms:
- Children
- Crime
- Genealogy
- Land registries
- Legal matters
- Real estate
- Wills
- System of arrangement:
- The fonds is structured into records and auxiliary books and files. The files are arranged according to call numbers into the following file handlings: 1850-1855 A regulations, B service matters, C disputes, D inheritance, E guardianship, G criminal matters; 1855-1897 I regulations; III disputes; IV inheritance, VII orphanage matters and estimates, A crimes, B, C criminal matters D arrest warrants, E prisoners; 1898-1923 A inheritance, C civil disputes; L withdrawal of legal status, E sequestration, Nc miscellaneous, P guardianship, U misdemeanours; 1924-1948 presidium files, regulations, C disputes, D inheritance, E sequestration, L withdrawal of legal status, P guardianship, M legal assistance, T criminal.
- Access, restrictions:
- The collection is only partly accessible.
- Finding aids:
- Zemek M: Okresní soud Hustopeče 1850-1948 (1950). Inventář, 1971, s. 66, ev.č. 87.; Zemek M: Okresní soud Hustopeče 1850-1948 (1950). Inventář, 1971, s. 64, ev.č. 95.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Jewish Museum Prague
- Author of the description:
- JMP Survey, 2015.