Metadata: District Office of Místek
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:
- 825
- Title:
- District Office of Místek
- Title (official language):
- Okresní úřad Místek
- Creator/accumulator:
- District Office of Místek
- Date(s):
- 1742/1950
- Language:
- Czech
- German
- Extent:
- 228.5 linear metres
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
- The fonds contains state administration documents from the District Office of Místek. The official registration books include information about the Jewish population. Of interest is the book of records of applicants for citizenship or their dismissal from 1887-1927 (inv. No. 18); Records of certificates of citizenship 1927-1938 (inv. No. 19, 20); Record books about issuing of passports from the years 1856-1920 (inv. No. 28-40). The fonds contains files on the Jewish religious community in Frýdek-Místek during 1893-1942 (inv. No. 891/box 1095, 1096). The fonds also includes registry records of Jews from years 1921-1928 (inv. No. 796/box602), Regulations and guidelines for the Jewish religious communities, issuing of certificates of Aryan origin from the years 1860-1944 (inv. No. 892/box 1101); measures against Jews and determination of office hours in the years 1939-1941 (inv. No. 874/box 991) etc. It also includes documents on matters of the unemployed, poor and old, such as the Jewish refuge hospital in Ostravice from the years 1937-1939 and measure for the location of the Jews in closed settlements from the years 1932-1940 (inv. No. 897/ 1129, 1130, 1133). There is also data on agricultural affairs, land and forest issues, purchase contracts, inventories of Jewish property, registration of Jewish property and land, inventory of Jewish tenants and owners of agricultural and forest land from the years 1939-1940 (inv. No. 910/box 1232, 1251); management of Jewish property from the years 1939-1945, the emigration of the Jews, measures for contact of the Jewish citizens with the rest of the population, Jewish housing management, disinfection of Jewish apartments and houses, Jewish businesses, the sale of land and gravestones of Jewish cemeteries in Moravská Ostrava and Frýdek (inv. No. 936/box1384, 1385-1390). Data on the Jewish population can be found in the files of citizenship certificates from the years 1929-1942, the expatriate agenda in the years 1857-1928, the granting of citizenship and release from the state services from the years 1855-1928. Valuable resources are also the census records from municipalities in the years 1869-1921 (sorted by judicial districts).
- Archival history:
- The fonds of the District Office in Místek was handed over from the District National Committee to the State Archives in Opava in the years 1953-1957, from where it was transferred to the District Archives in Opava and then in the same year to the District Archives in Frýdek-Místek. In 1959 an inventory was created. The fonds was arranged in 1985.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- The Bezirkshauptmannschaft (district head office) in Místek was established during the reorganisation of the state administration in 1849. It included three judicial districts - the District Court in Místek, Moravská Ostrava and Frenštát. In 1853, within the scope of a reform of the judicial and political administration, the Bezirkshauptmannschaft’s authority was divided into three district offices - Místek, Moravská Ostrava and Frenštát. In 1855, in the merger of political and judicial administration, the Bezirksamt (political and judicial district office) of Místek was appointed and functioned until 1868. In 1868, the Bezirkshauptmannschaft’s office in Místek was reinstated, which included three judicial districts - Místek, Moravská Ostrava and Frenštát. The Bezirkshauptmannschaft’s office was subordinate to the Moravian governorship in Brno. In 1900, the Judicial District of Moravská Ostrava was excluded from the Bezirkshauptmannschaft in Místek and the Bezirkshauptmannschaft’s Moravská Ostrava was newly established. In 1941, the Statutory town of Moravská Ostrava was constituted and the Bezirkshauptmannschaft Moravská Ostrava was abolished and some of its villages were newly included in the District Místek. In 1942 the Frýdek District was abolished and it was attached to the Místek District. In 1942 this merged Místek District was renamed Frýdek. In 1945 the administration was taken over by the District National Committee of Frýdek-Místek.
- Access points: locations:
- Místek
- Moravská Ostrava
- Ostravice
- Subject terms:
- Agriculture
- Aid and relief
- Aid and relief--Philanthropy and charity
- Antisemitism
- Antisemitism--Antisemitic measures
- Cemeteries
- Cemeteries--Gravestones
- Census records
- Citizenship
- Elderly
- Health and medical matters
- Health and medical matters--Hospitals
- Jewish community
- Jewish community records
- Land
- Migration
- Migration--Emigration
- Passports and visas
- Poverty
- Real estate
- Refugees
- Residency issues of Jews
- Trade and commerce
- Vital records
- System of arrangement:
- The fonds is arranged as follows: The books were divided into administrative and registers. Files are divided into two periods: 1) from the years 1855-1928, 2) from the years 1929-1936. In 1937, a new uniform disposition schedule was introduced with subject classes I-XI, further sub-divided thematically by Arabic numerals; with signatures of interest likely being I/23 State affairs, II/1 Economic and financial affairs of municipalities, III/1-29 Security and police matters, registration of refugees, VII/1-37 religious, educational and edification affairs, VIII/1-22 issues relating to social welfare, social insurance, unemployment benefits. This is followed by census records and independent parts, for example, Management and mandate of the Reich. The inventory is contains indexes.
- Access, restrictions:
- The collection is only partly accessible.
- Finding aids:
- Dannhoferová, Marie-Matějová, Alena: Okresní úřad Místek (1742)1850-1945(1950). Inventář, 1985, 244s, ev.č. 489.; Drobiš, D.-Fronk, V.-Veličková, K.: Okresní úřad Místek-Presidiální spisy díl 1. 1868-1918. Katalog, 1977, 979s, ev.č. 476.; Matějová, Alena: Okresní úřad Místek-Presidiální spisy 2. díl 1918-1938. Katalog, 1972, 724s, ev. č. 479.; Veličková, Karla: Okresní úřad Místek-Presidiální spisy 3. díl 1938-1944. Katalog, 1969, 213s, ev.č. 481.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Jewish Museum Prague
- Author of the description:
- JMP Survey, 2015.
