Metadata: Archive of the Town of Cheb
Collection
- Country:
- Czechia
- Holding institution:
- State District Archives Cheb
- Holding institution (official language):
- Státní okresní archiv Cheb
- Postal address:
- Františkánské nám. 14, Cheb, 350 11
- Phone number:
- 00420 354 422 556
- Email:
- soka-ch@soaplzen.cz
- Reference number:
- 1
- Title:
- Archive of the Town of Cheb
- Title (official language):
- Archiv města Cheb
- Creator/accumulator:
- Municipal Office of Cheb
- Date(s):
- 1242/1945
- Language:
- Czech
- Latin
- German
- Extent:
- 669.54 linear metres
- Physical condition:
- poor
- Scope and content:
- The fonds primarily contains documents of the administrative bodies of the town of Cheb. As they have not yet been arranged, other creators such as guilds and the school administration are also included here. The fonds contains documents about the expulsion of Jews in 1434, Jewry in the town in general, 1434-1773 (binder 400) and Jews individually, 1426-1781 (binder 401). The following documents can be said to relate to the history of the Jews after 1849: a private school for Jewish boys, 1867 (box 1095); the teaching of religion for Jewish pupils at Oberrealschule (senior high school), 1900 (box 1109); the exchange of Jewish community land with Rosina Heitzer, 1869-87 (box 1116); a complaint by the Jewish community about a slaughterhouse, 1932; documents concerning the establishment of a Jewish cemetery, 1872-1927; an Israeli delicatessen in Františkovy Lázně, 1849-52; and the Jewish religious community, 1893. From the period 1938-45 the documents concern guardianship of “Aryanised” Jewish firms (box 1834); expenditure for elimination of debris left after a synagogue was burnt down (opened 1893, burnt down 1938); a Jewish cemetery; the provision of registry documents for evacuated Jews; and mixed marriages (primarily instructions for the Standesamt (registry office), marriage licences and handling of Jewish registers (all box 1854). There are also documents concerning Jewish real estate and the purchase of houses (box 1867) and records of demonstrations against Jews and Czechs (box 1894). Jewish children are recorded separately in the books of birth records (not arranged books 396-415, 1908-28). In the birth records for 1870-78 (not processed books 403) a volume, Israelitische Geburten, is included recording Jewish children 1870-91.
- Archival history:
- The archive was moved in 1892 to the Cheb gymnasium and in 1912 to the building on Františkánské Square where it remains to this day. During the Second World war, for security reasons part of the archive was concealed in the municipality of Altmugl and part in the crypt of the church of St Catherine in Libá. After the war the documents returned to their original location under the supervision of the last German archives director, Dr Heribert Sturm, who performed a rough arrangement of the fonds in 1945. The only aid in navigating the material before 1800 is the register prepared by Karl Siegel. A new arrangement of the fonds is currently being prepared.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- The first record of Cheb as a town is from 1203. In 1322 the area became part of the Czech crown lands as a pledged territory subordinate directly to the king and enjoyed considerable liberty. The thirty years' war weakened Cheb both economically and politically and it dwindled in importance and was definitively incorporated into the Habsburg empire in 1782. The Jewish community in Cheb is recorded as early the 14th century, but was destroyed by pogroms (the first in 1350) and restored several times. The Jewish religious community arose through the transformation of the local religious association in 1871.
- Access points: locations:
- Cheb
- Františkovy Lázně
- Access points: persons/families:
- Heitzer, Rosina
- Subject terms:
- Antisemitism
- Cemeteries
- Children
- Education
- Education--Schools and universities
- Education--Students
- Expulsion
- Interfaith marriage
- Jewish community
- Kashrut
- Land
- Marriage and divorce
- Plunder
- Plunder--Aryanisation
- Real estate
- Ritual slaughter
- Synagogues
- Vital records
- Vital records--Birth records
- Access, restrictions:
- The collection is not accessible.
- Finding aids:
- Žádná platná a moderní archivní pomůcka k dispozici není. Sieglovy a Sturmovy soupisy může zájemce studovat v badatelně. Sieglův katalog pro dokumenty do roku 1800 vyšel též tiskem.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Jewish Museum Prague
- Author of the description:
- JMP Survey, 2015.