District Office of Rýmařov

Collection

Holding institution (official language):: Státní okresní archiv Bruntál se sídlem v Krnově

Scope and content:: The fonds contains documents of the political administration of the Rýmařov District and also census records where Jews are also included. The fonds also includes the agenda concerning the modification of the statutes of the Jewish Religious Community in Úsov and Šumperk from 1929-1930, and the agenda concerning enterprises of Jewish industrialists.

Archival history:: After 1938, the older part of the files was transferred to the former German Reich Archives in Opava from where it was handed over to the District National Committee in Rýmařov after 1945. In 1952, the documents were taken over by the former Archives of the Olomouc Region in Janovice u Rýmařova where additions to the fonds were also transferred in 1956 and 1959. In 1956, census records from the then State Archives in Brno were transferred. In 1961, the fonds was transferred to the District Archives in Bruntál.

Administrative/biographical history:: The political district of Rýmařov (Römerstadt in German) was created in 1855 as a Bezirksamt (political and judicial district office). In 1868, the Bezirkshauptmannschaft (district head office) in Rýmařov designed only for political administration was created and since 1922 the name of District Political Administration began to be used. Since 1928 it was the District Office in Rýmařov. The District Office in Rýmařov existed until October 1938, when the whole territory of the district was annexed to Germany and incorporated into the Reichsgau Sudetenland (Sudeten Region). The political administration was taken over by the Landrat (district councillor) office in Rýmařov.

Subject terms:: Census records; Jewish community; Jewish community records; Trade and commerce

System of arrangement:: The fonds is arranged as follows: I. Official books II. Files, III. Accounting materials, IV. Other materials, Addenda. The Files are subdivided into individual registry periods and a special part includes census records.

Finding aids:: Fronk, V., Okresní úřad Rýmařov-presidiální spisy 1855-1936. Inventář, Bruntál 1972, 298 s., ev. č. 9; Bráchová, O.-Entrová Grochalová, L.-Fiedlerová, L.-Kisková, A., Okresní úřad Rýmařov (1776) 1855-1938 (1950). Inventář, Bruntál 2001, 104 s., ev. č. 439.