Metadata: District Office of Kadaň
Collection
- Country:
- Czechia
- Holding institution:
- State District Archives Chomutov located in Kadaň
- Holding institution (official language):
- Státní okresní archiv Chomutov se sídlem v Kadani
- Postal address:
- Boženy Němcové 68, Kadaň, 432 01
- Phone number:
- 00420 477 755 889
- Email:
- sokakadan@soalitomerice.cz
- Reference number:
- 127
- Title:
- District Office of Kadaň
- Title (official language):
- Okresní úřad Kadaň
- Creator/accumulator:
- District Office of Kadaň
- Date(s):
- 1744/1945
- Language:
- Czech
- German
- Extent:
- 24.95 linear metres
- Physical condition:
- poor
- Scope and content:
- Documents concerning the Jewish population have been preserved in files concerning registers of births, deaths and marriages, nationality and domiciliation: emigration and applications for cancelling citizenship, passports from 1907-31, registry matters, registry protocols and additional personal documents (notifications, home certificates, birth certificates) from 1840-1937, various issues of the Jewish community and its members (statutes of the Jewish community, disputes, correspondence, memos, directives, personal and other documents, the legal action against Rabbi Joseph Sagher) from 1840-1931; religious materials: files relating to the Jewish community in Kadaň; materials concerning construction: a list of Jewish monuments; materials concerning various associations: the Jewish religious community; and materials concerning education, culture and registers of births, deaths and marriages: a change to the statutes of the Jewish community, registry affairs, 1930-38.
- Archival history:
- After the district office in Kadaň was abolished, its documents remained in the existing building during the the succeeding periods of the Landrat Kadaň and the district national committee in Kadaň. Some of the original files were destroyed in 1938 and further destruction occurred under the German government and after 1945. Some of the documents were taken over in 1954 by the state archives in Kadaň, the regional archives of the former Karlovy Vary region and the rest in 1956 by the district archives in Kadaň (called the district archives from 1960 and the state district archives since 1992), which also took over, in the same year, the first part of the files from the state archives of Kadaň. The collected archive was arranged and inventoried in 1968.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- The Bezirkshauptmannschaft (district head office) in Kadaň was established in 1850. The territorial jurisdiction of the office was determined by the newly established political district of Kadaň, formed by the judicial districts of Kadaň, Doupov and Přísečnice. In 1855 it was replaced by the political and judicial district office (Bezirksamt) of Kadaň, Doupov and Přísečnice. In 1868 a separate Bezirkshauptmannschaft (district head office) in Kadaň was re-established, covering the renewed political district of Kadaň. In 1906 the judicial district of Přísečnice was separated, forming a separate political and judicial district until 1944, when it was again merged with the political district of Kadaň.
- Access points: locations:
- Kadaň
- Access points: persons/families:
- Sagher, Joseph
- Subject terms:
- Architecture
- Citizenship
- Education
- Jewish community
- Jewish community records
- Legal matters
- Marriage and divorce
- Migration
- Migration--Emigration
- Monuments and memorials
- Passports and visas
- Personal records
- Residency issues of Jews
- Vital records
- Vital records--Birth records
- Vital records--Death records
- Vital records--Marriage records
- System of arrangement:
- The arranged part of the archive collection is divided into two main groups: I. Books, from 1887-1938, further divided into office books and accounting books; II. Files, from (1744) 1903-1938 (1942), further divided into registry finding aids and files (which are divided into two groups of documents stored according to two different file plans).
- Finding aids:
- V. Vítek, Okresní úřad Kadaň (1744)1850–1938 (1942). Inventář. Kadaň 1969 (archivní pomůcka č. 127)
- Yerusha Network member:
- Jewish Museum Prague
- Author of the description:
- JMP Survey, 2015.