Metadata: Archive of the Town of Strážnice
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:
- 708
- Title:
- Archive of the Town of Strážnice
- Title (official language):
- Archiv města Strážnice
- Creator/accumulator:
- Town of Strážnice
- Date(s):
- 1595/1945
- Language:
- Czech
- German
- Extent:
- 58.3 linear metres
- Scope and content:
- The fonds contains important documents related to Jewish history. From earlier periods, these include a debt bond for 3,500 florins by the owner of the town to the benefit of Strážnice Jews from 1626, land registers including Židovská (Jewish) Street from the 16th to 19th century, a list of members of the Jewish council from 1755 to 1757, sale of 9 Jewish homes to Christians in 1800 a ban on settlement of Jews in Christian homes from 1825, 1828, a request from the Jewish community for establishment of a gate 1825, damage to a feast (Shabbat) symbol in 1825, conversion of two Jews to the Christian faith - investigation 1826, 1834, a report from the municipality office about the Hebrew magazine “Thamaskis“ 1829 and other individual items from the 17th to 19th century, mainly of an administrative, criminal or commercial character. There is also a file about the merger of the town with the Jewish political community in 1919 and documents from the Holocaust about Jewish citizens, relations with them, confiscation of property 1939-1945. Relevant information may also include an album of photographs for the Chronicle 1914-1953, electoral rolls from 1920 to 1938, the census (domicile certificates) 1857, 1890 and the census in 1900 and 1910.
- Archival history:
- The documents were originally stored at the town hall in Strážnice. In 1966 they were transferred to the State District Archives in Hodonín. The fonds was supplemented with several tranches of older material and individual documents, mainly parchment charters in the fonds of the New Collection of the State Regional Archives in Brno (today the Moravian Provincial Archives). During a registry room fire in 1952 the fonds suffered small losses, so it is not complete. The fonds was arranged during 1973-1974.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- The earliest mention of Strážnice (Straßnitz, Strassnitz in German) dates from 1302 and the municipality is mentioned as a town since the 14th century. Strážnice was the centre of a manor, which until 1848 was owned by various noble houses. In 1795, a controlled municipality office was set up in Strážnice. Since 1848, it has been an independent municipality. Confirmed Jewish settlement in Strážnice dates from the 16th century and a large Jewish community developed there. In 1848-1919, there was an independent Jewish political community, which was then merged with the town. In 1850-1855, Strážnice fell under the political district of Uherské Hradiště, from 1855-1868 under the political district of Strážnice and from 1868 to 1949 under the political district of Hodonín. The judicial district was seated in Strážnice from 1850 to 1949.
- Access points: locations:
- Strážnice
- System of arrangement:
- The fonds’s documents are divided into an older part dating until 1850 and a newer part dating from 1850 to 1945. The older part is structured as follows: I. Charters; II. Official books; III. Files: A. Registry finding books, B. Files (sorted by subject into nine file groups), IV. Accounting dossiers, V. Other material. The newer part of the fonds is structured as follows: I. Official books, II. Files: A. Registry finding books, B. Files (sorted by subject into groups A–N), C. Census records; III. Accounting dossiers; IV. Seals.
- Finding aids:
- Špičková M.: Archiv města Strážnice (magistrát), 1562 - 1850 (1881). Inventář, 1973, s. 116, ev.č. 300.; Špičková M.: Archiv města Strážnice 1850 - 1945 (1953). Inventář, 1974, s. 56, ev.č. 301.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Jewish Museum Prague
- Author of the description:
- JMP Survey, 2015.