Metadata: Archive of the Town of Kyjov
Collection
- Country:
- Czechia
- Holding institution:
- State District Archives of Hodonín
- Holding institution (official language):
- Státní okresní archiv Hodonín
- Postal address:
- Koupelní 809/10, Hodonín, 695 01
- Phone number:
- 00420 518 343 306
- Email:
- soka_hodonin@mza.cz
- Reference number:
- 403
- Title:
- Archive of the Town of Kyjov
- Title (official language):
- Archiv města Kyjov
- Creator/accumulator:
- Town of Kyjov
- Date(s):
- 1480/1945
- Language:
- Czech
- German
- Extent:
- 19.18 linear metres
- Scope and content:
-
The fonds contains an abundance of information about Jewish history. These include books with records of Jews‘ obligations in the town of Kyjov from 1743 to 1817, documents about the sale or donation of parts of the town moat to Jews in 1845, along with books of Jewish homes in the town of Kyjov from 1764 to 1850 (1883) (2 books), books of men’s and women’s seats in synagogue from 1786 to 1850 (1873) and books with records of Jewish real estate 1816 to 1850 (1851), and in court materials also the item Jews in Kyjov, relations with them and disputes 1651 to 1854. The fonds previously contained minutes from meetings of the Jewish political community in Kyjov from 1883 to 1919, which were sorted into a separate fonds, but the fonds still contains a book of published domicile certificates by the Jewish (political) community from 1884 to 1919. Attention should also be devoted to the agenda of domicile law, population records (including personal cards for persons affiliated to Kyjov), a list of homes and their users from 1901 to 1945.
From the period of the Holocaust, the fonds includes the following: a list of Jewish inhabitants from 1939, a list of Jews expelled after 15 March 1939 and police registration records of the Jewish population from 1941 to 1942; relations with the Jewish population, leasing and sale of confiscated flats and real estate from 1939 to 1945; the Jewish cemetery - sale of gravestones and land 1943 to 1944; liquidation of Jewish shops, leasing from 1940 to 1942. Attention should also be devoted to records of persons relocated to Kyjov after 1 January 1939 and a list of flats from 1939 to 1940.
- Archival history:
- The documents were originally stored with their creator, but in modern times they had various fates and the fonds was comprised by transfers from various institutions. Some of the documents were taken over by the State District Archives in Hodonín in 1961 from the abolished District Archives in Kyjov and older documents, including records, were taken over in 1997 from the Kyjov Town Museum. Most of the files was handed over by the town of Kyjov between 1965 and 1966. The fonds was supplemented by transfers in 1971 from the State Regional Archives in Brno (today the Moravian Provincial Archives) and from the State District Archives in Uherské Hradiště. The fonds was arranged in 2001-2003.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- The oldest written mention of Kyjov dates from 1126. Kyjov (Gaya in German) has always been among the important seats in South Moravia and in the 14th century gained town status. It was held by a monarch, a church council and various members of nobility. In 1548, the inhabitants of Kyjov purchased it from their lord and became serfs of the royal chamber, so from a legal point of view Kyjov is a royal chamber town. Until 1848, Kyjov was the centre and principal of the municipal manor. In 1786 a regulated town hall was established. After 1848, Kyjov became an independent municipality. The Jewish settlement in Kyjov provably dates at least from the 16th century and despite Christians’ attempts to expel Jews a medium-sized Jewish community developed there. From 1848 to 1919, there was an independent Jewish political community, which in 1919 was merged with the Christian part of town. From 1850 to 1949, Kyjov was the seat of the political and judicial district.
- Access points: locations:
- Kyjov
- System of arrangement:
- The fonds is arranged as follows: I. Charters, II. Official books (before 1850; after 1850); III. Files: A. Registry finding books, B. Files until 1850, C. Files after 1850, IV. Accounting dossiers, VI. Additional material.
- Finding aids:
- Rucká G.: Archiv města Kyjov 1480 - 1945 (1952). Inventář, 2003, s. 63, ev.č. 493.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Jewish Museum Prague
- Author of the description:
- JMP Survey, 2015.
