Metadata: Deanery of Mašťov
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:
- 55
- Title:
- Deanery of Mašťov
- Title (official language):
- Děkanský úřad Mašťov
- Creator/accumulator:
- Roman Catholic Deanery of Mašťov
- Date(s):
- 1599/1955
- Language:
- Czech
- German
- Latin
- Extent:
- 2.62 linear metres
- Physical condition:
- poor
- Scope and content:
- Documents concerning the Jewish population can be found in group F (registry matters). It includes wedding protocols and certificates from 1840-64 and medical examiners' reports of the deceased from 1854-64.
- Archival history:
- The registry office of the deanery was originally located in the deanery building. After the second world war the documents were stored in the oratory of the Church of the Assumption in Mašťov. They were transferred in 1958 to the district archives of Podbořany in Blšany, where the collection was organised and inventoried. Due to the 1960 local and regional reform, the Podbořany archives were closed and the files taken over by the district archives of Louny. From there the archive collection of the deanery in Mašťov was transferred to the district archives of Chomutov in Kadaň (called the state district archives since 1992).
- Administrative/biographical history:
- The first records of the existence of the church administration in Mašťov date back to the late 12th century, and of the parish in Maštov to the 14th century (the first parish church was dedicated to St Barbara; since 1580 there has been a Church of the Assumption in the village). In 1782 the parish became a deanery. A Jewish community in Mašťov was first recorded in the first half of the 16th century but it is assumed to have existed earlier — the Jewish cemetery supposedly originated in the 15th century. The size of the Jewish community peaked in the 19th century. The 1830 synagogue was demolished in 1948.
- Access points: locations:
- Mašťov
- System of arrangement:
- The archive collection is divided into 12 main groups: A. Charters; B. Books; C. Legal issues of the parish and the church; D. Inventories; E. School issues; F. Registry issues; G. Statistics and records of believers; H. Registry; I. Economy of the parish and the church; K. Accounting materials; L. Historical studies and manuscripts; M. Maps, plans and drawings.
- Finding aids:
- A. Cikánek, Děkanství Mašťov 1599–1955. Inventář. Blšany 1960 (archivní pomůcka č. 55)
- Yerusha Network member:
- Jewish Museum Prague
- Author of the description:
- JMP Survey, 2015.
