Metadata: Archive of the Town of Jirkov
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:
- 334
- Title:
- Archive of the Town of Jirkov
- Title (official language):
- Archiv města Jirkov
- Creator/accumulator:
- Municipal Office of Jirkov
- Date(s):
- 1443/1947
- Language:
- Czech
- German
- Latin
- Extent:
- 108. 65 linear metres
- Physical condition:
- poor
- Scope and content:
- The fonds contains documents related to municipal self-government. The only item related to Jewish history is the 1877 statutes of the Jewish religious community of Jirkov.
- Archival history:
- The documents of the municipal office were originally stored at the town hall in Jirkov. In 1934 the pre-1850 documents were transferred to the municipal archives in Chomutov. After 1945, a separate municipal archive was established in Jirkov, including the post-1850 documents of the former municipal office and later part of the earlier documents from the municipal archives in Chomutov. After the establishment of the district archives of Chomutov in Kadaň (since 1992 called the state district archives), some of the Jirkov documents stored in Chomutov as well as those from the liquidated municipal archives in Jirkov were transferred there. The documents were concentrated into a single collection which was arranged and inventoried. Other documents from the state regional archives in Litomerice and other archives were added in later years.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- Jirkov was first mentioned in 1352 and as a town in 1362. The town belonged to the estate of Červený Hrádek, except in the second half of the 14th and the early 15th centuries when part of the town belonged to the estate of Nový Žeberk. In 1796 a controlled municipality office was established in the town, and after 1849 Jirkov was an autonomous municipality. From 1850 it was part of the judicial district of Jirkov. A Jewish community was first mentioned in Jirkov in the 17th century. The synagogue was constructed in 1846-47.
- Access points: locations:
- Jirkov
- Subject terms:
- Jewish community
- Jewish community records
- System of arrangement:
- The fonds is divided into three main groups: A. Charters, 1443-1836; B. Books, 1443-1945 (1947); C. Files - subdivided into files before 1769, files from 1770-1849, files from the 1840s-50s, files from 1851-1882, unarranged files from 1880-1938 and unarranged files from after 1938.
- Finding aids:
- P. Rak, Archiv města Jirkova 1443–1945(1947). Inventář. Kadaň 1987 (archivní pomůcka č. 180)
- Yerusha Network member:
- Jewish Museum Prague
- Author of the description:
- JMP Survey, 2015.
