Metadata: Archive of the Town of Břeclav
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:
- 65
- Title:
- Archive of the Town of Břeclav
- Title (official language):
- Archiv města Břeclav
- Creator/accumulator:
- Town of Břeclav
- Date(s):
- 1625/1945
- Language:
- German
- Czech
- Extent:
- 8.63 linear metres
- Scope and content:
- The fonds is only partially preserved; primarily from the period after 1900. For the study of Jewish history, the files about associations (Makabi Association 1925-1936) and foundations with founders of Jewish origin, primarily members of the Kuffner family (Hirsch Kuffner Foundation 1905, 1913, 1933; Jakub Kuffner Stipend Foundation 1897-1938; Hermann Kuffner Foundation 1905-1935) will be of special interest. Relevant information can also be found in the documents on domicile and residential certificates from 1928-1939 and documents on Břeclav schools.
- Archival history:
- The written documents of the fonds were stored by the creator, but suffered considerable losses towards the end of the Second World War, when the town hall burned down after bombing in 1944 and with it a part of the municipal archive. Only a few individual documents from the 17th and 18th centuries were preserved by the Municipal Museum Association. These were transferred to the Regional Museum in Mikulov in 1986, from where they were transferred to the District State Archives in Mikulov later the same year. The remaining part of the fonds was taken over gradually by the District State Archives in Mikulov in 1960, 1981 and 1996. The fonds was arranged here in 2004 and 2005.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- The market town of Břeclav (Lundeburg in German) established itself close to the castle, which was founded close to the old Great Moravian fortified settlement in the first half of the 11th century by prince Břetislav. In the 14th century it became a liege market town and the centre of the estate of the same name, which after 1638 was continuously within the ownership of the noble house of Liechtenstein. In 1872 Břeclav was raised to the status of a town. The settlement of Jews in Břeclav is in evidence from the beginning of the 16th century. During the Thirty Years War the settlement ceased to exist, but it was renewed in the 1670s by exiles from Lower Austria, primarily from Valtice. During the period of 1848-1919 a Jewish political community existed in Břeclav. The Břeclav Jewish community was destroyed during the holocaust. From an administrative perspective Břeclav belonged to the political district of Hustopeče in 1850-1855, to Břeclav in 1855-1868 and to Hodonín in 1868-1949, with the exception of 1938-1945, when it was within the jurisdiction of the Landrat of Mikulov. In the period of 1850-1949 the judicial district resided in Břeclav.
- Access points: locations:
- Breclav
- Lundenburg
- Access points: persons/families:
- Kuffner family
- System of arrangement:
- The fonds is arranged as follows: Charters; official books; files (arranged chronologically up to 1850, later classified according to material groups); accounting dossiers.
- Finding aids:
- Svoboda M: Archiv města Břeclav 1625 - 1945 (1957). Inventář, 2005, s. 38, ev.č. 291.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Jewish Museum Prague
- Author of the description:
- JMP Survey, 2015.