Metadata: Archive of the Town of Židlochovice
Collection
- Country:
- Czechia
- Holding institution:
- State District Archives Brno-venkov located in Rajhrad
- Holding institution (official language):
- Státní okresní archiv Brno-venkov se sídlem v Rajhradě
- Postal address:
- Klášter 81, Rajhrad, 664 61
- Phone number:
- 00420 547 425 711
- Email:
- soka_brnovenkov@mza.cz
- Reference number:
- 183
- Title:
- Archive of the Town of Židlochovice
- Title (official language):
- Archiv města Židlochovice
- Creator/accumulator:
- Town of Židlochovice
- Date(s):
- 1445/1958
- Language:
- Czech
- German
- Extent:
- 18.8 linear metres
- Scope and content:
- The fonds contains documents of the self-government of Židlochovice. The importance of the fonds for the Jewish history is only a secondary one. Jews are mainly referred to documents from the Holocaust period: a file from 1941-1943 marked Jews; documents and drafts for the town chronicle from 1938-1945 including letters of Jews to Walter Strebinger from 1942 and a brief description of the life of Walter Strebinger (a Jewish dental technician from Židlochovice) in 1941-1945. Attention should also be paid to the town chronicles from 1937-1945 (3 books) and to the population records from 1849-1958 (28 books).
- Archival history:
- The documents of the municipal office of Židlochovice had been stored, since the mid-16th century, at the town hall, where a special room was allocated for that purpose in the early 20th century when the fonds was administered by the town archivist. In 1965, it was transferred to the State District Archives Brno-Country, based in Rajhrad, where it was arranged and inventoried in 1967.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- The first mention of Židlochovice (Groß Seelowitz, Großseelowitz in German) dates back to 1237. It became a borough in the second half of the 14th century. Since the early 15th century it was a vassal possession and became the centre of an extensive dominion. Among the owners of this dominion were the leading Moravian noble families: the Pernštejns, the Valdštejns, the Sinzendorfs and the Ditrichštejns. Since 1848, Židlochovice was an independent community, being promoted, in 1873, to town status. Židlochovice fell under the political district of Hustopeče in 1850-1855, 1868-1941, 1943-1949; the political district of Židlochovice in 1855-1868 and 1949-1960, and the political district of Brno-Country in 1942-1945. In 1850-1960, it fell under the judicial district of Židlochovice. There had never been a Jewish community in the town and only after 1848 did individual Jewish families begin to settle there.
- Access points: locations:
- Židlochovice
- Access points: persons/families:
- Strebinger, Walter
- Subject terms:
- Correspondence
- Holocaust
- System of arrangement:
- So far, the fonds has been arranged according to the following schedule: charters, official books, files, accounting books and accounting documentary material. The files were originally kept in chronological order and were artificially arranged into classes by subject. Before 1850, they included the following classes: privileges, patents and ordinances, municipal economy, serf obligations, viniculture issues, education, criminal issues, disputes and uncontested agenda. The files after 1850 were categorised according to the key used for political offices: I. Constitutional issues, II. Economic and financial issues, III. Safety, IV. Military issues, V. Trade, commerce, and industry, VI. Education and enlightenment, VII. Social care and poverty relief, VIII. Health and veterinary issues, IX. Agriculture, forestry, hunting, water and fishing issues, X. Public works and construction, firefighting and engineering issues.
- Access, restrictions:
- The collection is only partly accessible.
- Finding aids:
- Drábková D, Příleská H, Štarha I: Archiv města Židlochovic 1445 - 1945 (1958). Inventář, 1967, s. 35, ev.č. 31.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Jewish Museum Prague
- Author of the description:
- JMP Survey, 2015.