Metadata: State District Archives 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, Czech republic
- Phone number:
- 00420 354 422 556
- Email:
- soka-ch@soaplzen.cz
- Reference number:
- 531
- Title:
- State District Archives Cheb
- Title (official language):
- Státní okresní archiv Cheb
- Creator/accumulator:
- State District Archives Cheb
- Date(s):
- 1899/2007
- Language:
- Czech
- German
- Extent:
- 10.87 linear metres
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
- The fonds contains records of the activity of the Cheb municipal archives and the district archives in Cheb: documents concerning the running of the office, its organisation and financial and personnel matters, correspondence concerning research questions, appraisal proceedings and documentation from the promotional activity of the archives including organisation of exhibitions and lectures. Inv. 603 contains documents concerning the history of the Jews, for example Eduard Reichl’s article “Das Egerer Stadtgesetzbuch über die Juden” from 1877 and pages from Cheb newspapers with a lampoon of Cheb and Františkovy Lázně Jews.
- Archival history:
- The documents were filed on an ongoing basis.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- The first report of an archive in Cheb comes from 1636. From 1912 the archive was located in a dissolved nunnery of the Order of the Poor Clares. During the Second World War most of the archive was moved to Bavaria to protect it from air raids and some books were concealed in the crypt of a church in Libá. After the war the documents were moved back to Cheb. In 1953 the municipal archive expanded its field of operation and became the district archive with responsibility for the districts of Cheb and Aš. In 1990 the archive became the responsibility of the District Office in Cheb. Since 2002 it has been an internal organisational unit of the regional state archives in Plzeň.
- Access points: locations:
- Cheb
- Františkovy Lázně
- Subject terms:
- Antisemitism
- Newspaper clippings
- System of arrangement:
- The most modern documents excluded from the register of the registry office of the State District Archives Cheb are sorted by subject (1960-1984). The state registry from 1902-1972 is sorted in alphabetical order according to keywords.
- Access, restrictions:
- The collection is only partly accessible
- Finding aids:
- Mimra J.: Státní okresní archiv Cheb, 1902–1984. Prozatímní inventární seznam, 1992, 37 s., ev. č. 629.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Jewish Museum Prague
- Author of the description:
- JMP Survey, 2015.