Metadata: Archive of the Town of Frýdek
Collection
- Country:
- Czechia
- Holding institution:
- State District Archives Frýdek-Místek
- Holding institution (official language):
- Státní okresní archiv Frýdek-Místek
- Postal address:
- Bezručova 2145, Frýdek-Místek, 738 01
- Phone number:
- 00420 558 43 20 76
- Email:
- podatelna@fm.archives.cz
- Reference number:
- 697
- Title:
- Archive of the Town of Frýdek
- Title (official language):
- Archiv města Frýdek
- Creator/accumulator:
- Town of Frýdek
- Date(s):
- 1519/1951
- Language:
- Czech
- German
- Extent:
- 75.45 linear metres
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
- The fonds contains documents of the self-administration of the town of Frýdek. It includes documents related to the Jewish religious community, a list of members of the Jewish Association, the Statutes of the Jewish Association (inv. No. 547/box 111, 113); founding of the Jewish Association (inv. No. 548/box 122); Statutes of the Jewish religious community (inv. No. 783/box 253); arson of the Jewish synagogue, implementation of guidelines for the regulation of the legal status of the Jews from the year 1940, list of public employees - Jews (inv. No. 867/box 290); matters of the Jewish students association (inv. No. 783/box187). The fonds also contains documents relating to the economy and Jewish businessmen and entrepreneurs - crafts and Jewish traders (inv. No. 536/box 33); trades, industry, business and concessions (inv. No. 551/box 124-128). The documents also relate to Jewish property - inventory and sale of Jewish property (inv. No. 917/box 301); also documents on factories of Jewish owners, such as Landsberger's textile factory, Neumann brothers' textile factory, their business and building activities. An important source for the history of Jews is also provided by the Land books (originated before 1848), testaments, judicial agenda, population registry of the town of Frýdek (inv. No. 156), and files relating to registry issues. An interesting source is the set of applications for granting domicile right (inv. No. 765) and admission into the community. Very valuable resources are also the census records of the town of Frýdek from the years 1869, 1880, 1890, 1900, 1910, 1921.
- Archival history:
- The documents were originally deposited in the building of the Municipal Office Frýdek. Selected documents and writings were handed over in the 1920s or 1930s to the municipal museum in Frýdek, and after the district archives were established archival documents were handed over to the District State Archives in Frýdek-Místek in 1956. The latter part of the fonds was transferred from the Municipal National Committee to the District State Archives in Frýdek-Místek where it is deposited to this day.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- The town of Frýdek was founded in the years 1327-1333 by the Těšín princes. In 1798, the Frýdek estate was bought by Maria Christina, Duchess of Teschen and Albert Casimir, Duke of Teschen and the estate was owned by the Habsburgs until 1918. It was managed by the Těšín chamber. During 1850-1868 the town of Frýdek fell under the District Office Frýdek. In 1868, Frýdek was appointed a statutory town and the Political District of Frydek was abolished. In 1901, the Bezirkshauptmannschaft (district head office) Frýdek was established, to which the town of Frýdek was subordinated. Frýdek was the seat of the District Office as well as the District Court. In 1864, the Jewish Association was approved in Frýdek with the official name “Israelitischer Kultus-Verein für Friedek, Místek und Colloredow“. In 1890, the Jewish Religious Community was formed with its base in Frýdek, including also the statutory town of Frýdek and villages of the neighbouring district of Frýdek and Místek.
- Access points: locations:
- Frýdek
- Subject terms:
- Antisemitism
- Census records
- Education
- Education--Students
- Jewish community
- Jewish community records
- Land registries
- Legal matters
- Legal status of Jews
- Manufacturing
- Plunder
- Professions
- Professions--Crafts
- Real estate
- Residency issues of Jews
- Synagogues
- Trade and commerce
- Trade and commerce--Clothing and textile trade
- Vital records
- System of arrangement:
- The fonds is arranged as follows: I. Charters, II. Official books: 1. Administrative books, 2. Registry books. III. Files: 1. Registry finding aids 2. Files: A) Presidium files, B) General registry files - the individual chapters are divided chronologically as follows: a) until 1784, b) 1785-1850, c) 1850-1910, d) 1911-1913, e) 1914-1942, f) 1943-1945. III. Accounting material. Additional material was arranged in 2000, according to the same organisational scheme.
- Access, restrictions:
- The collection is only partly accessible.
- Finding aids:
- Matějová, Alena: Archiv města Frýdek 1519-1845 (1951). Inventář 1976, 142 s., ev. č. pomůcky 490.; Michna, Radomír: Archiv města Frýdek 1747-1945 (1949), DODATKY. Inventář 2000, 17 s, ev. č. pomůcky 862.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Jewish Museum Prague
- Author of the description:
- JMP Survey, 2015.
