Metadata: District Court of Hostouň
Collection
- Country:
- Czechia
- Holding institution:
- State District Archives Domažlice located in Horšovský Týn
- Holding institution (official language):
- Státní okresní archiv Domažlice se sídlem v Horšovském Týně
- Postal address:
- Nám. Republiky 10, Horšovský Týn, 346 01
- Phone number:
- 00420 379 422 607
- Email:
- soka-do@soaplzen.cz
- Reference number:
- 488
- Title:
- District Court of Hostouň
- Title (official language):
- Okresní soud Hostouň
- Creator/accumulator:
- District Court of Hostouň
- Date(s):
- 1850/1938
- Language:
- Czech
- German
- Extent:
- 43.84 linear metres
- Physical condition:
- poor
- Scope and content:
- The fonds includes archival materials resulting from the activities of the court for the territory of the judicial district of Hostouň where several places were inhabited by Jewish population. On the basis of the nature of the agenda of district courts one may assume that in different parts of the files researchers will be able to study matters of the Jewish population, for example inheritance issues, estate transfer, etc. Searching will be facilitated by the preserved indexes.
- Archival history:
- The documents of the District Court in Hostouň were stored in the registry of the district, later Amtsgericht (district court). After 1945, they were probably moved into the building of the Horšovský Týn District Court. In 1948, a part of the files, especially collections of deeds and abstracts from land books, was stored in the Prague archives, and a year later the documents from 1850-1897 were transferred to the regional archival depository in Plasy. In addition, one may find preserved records of the transfer of the archival materials of the Hostouň district court from the State Archives in Pilsen to the Distric Archives in 1965 and also in 1970.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- The creator of the fonds is the first instance court established in July 1850 which had the jurisdiction within the newly created judicial district of Hostouň. In 1855-1868, the first instance courts were incorporated into district offices and thus the political and judicial administrations merged. This, however, did not work, so from 31 August 1868 district courts became independent again. During the First Czechoslovak Republic district courts continued to be the basic units of the judiciary until 1938, when the entire agenda was handed over to the German state and an Amtsgericht (District Court) was established. After World War II, there was a provisional reorganisation of the judiciary which included the territorial organisation whereby the jurisdiction of the District Court in Hostouň was incorporated into the jurisdiction of the District Court in Horšovský Týn.
- Subject terms:
- Legal matters
- Real estate
- Wills
- Access, restrictions:
- The collection is not accessible.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Jewish Museum Prague
- Author of the description:
- JMP Survey, 2015.