Metadata: Archive of the Town of Jablonec nad Nisou
Collection
- Country:
- Czechia
- Holding institution:
- State District Archives Jablonec nad Nisou
- Holding institution (official language):
- Státní okresní archiv Jablonec nad Nisou
- Postal address:
- Turnovská 40A, Jablonec nad Nisou, 466 01
- Phone number:
- 00420 488 577 825
- Email:
- sokajbc@soalitomerice.cz
- Reference number:
- 135
- Title:
- Archive of the Town of Jablonec nad Nisou
- Title (official language):
- Archiv města Jablonec nad Nisou
- Creator/accumulator:
- Town of Jablonec nad Nisou
- Date(s):
- 1716/1945
- Language:
- Czech
- German
- Extent:
- 193.79 linear metres
- Physical condition:
- poor
- Scope and content:
- The fonds contains the records of the municipal authority of Jablonec nad Nisou. The following records relate to Jewish history: from 1911-33, matters relating to religion and individual churches - Jewish religious community (inv. 961); from 1933-37, food supplies (Jews) (inv. 1581); from 1939-45, private teacher-training institutes and Jewish schools (inv. 2364). Other records of interest include chronicles, 1900-12; meeting minutes of the local council and assembly, 1850-1945; local population registers, 1850 and 1890; census records, 1830-50, 1857, 1880, 1890, 1900 (index only), 1910 (index only) and 1943; alphabetical card index of the town's inhabitants until 1939; association register, 1898-1938; register of buildings (mainly 1938); and files relating to citizenship and the right of domicile, school teaching, associations, industry, trade and businesses, construction-related matters, social welfare and poverty. The unprocessed section of the fonds includes lists of inhabitants (Mannschaftsbuch) in the first half of the 19th century, a list of local associations and corporations (including Jewish), c. 1920s-1930s and files on charity foundations and funds.
- Archival history:
- As Jablonec was a serf village, for many years little attention was paid to the production and preservation of official records. The bulk of the municipal authority's records dates from 1849-1945. Some earlier files have been preserved, mainly due to the collecting activities of local historians who incorporated the documents into the collections of the then museum of local history (Vlastivědné muzeum) in Jablonec. The municipal registry was kept in the old town hall, from where it was moved to the new town hall in 1933. On 12-15 June 1960 the records were handed over to the district archives in Jablonec nad Nisou, which also received the earliest records that had been kept at the museum. The material was arranged and inventoried in 1966-69. The town's construction and demolition-related files are kept at the municipal building authority in Jablonec nad Nisou; of particular interest are the files relating to the synagogue in Jablonec, which was destroyed during Kristallnacht on 10 November 1938.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- The earliest written reference to the village of Jablonec (specifically, its church) is from 1356. The village was burnt down by the Lusatian army on 30 August 1469 and remained deserted for more than 80 years. It was resettled by German residents in about 1550. The village became a market town on 20 October 1808 and received full town status on 28 March 1866. The rapid development of Jablonec was mainly due to the local glass industry and trade. Since 1906 the official name of the town has been Jablonec nad Nisou (German: Gablonz an der Neisse). Jablonec was the seat of the Bezirksamt (political and judicial district office) in 1855-68 and the seat of the district court and Bezirkshauptmannschaft (district head office) from 1868. The first Jews to settle permanently began arriving in the 1840s, the main influx occurring after the Austro-Prussian War of 1866 and in the 1890s and the early 20th century.
- Access points: locations:
- Jablonec nad Nisou
- Access, restrictions:
- The collection is only partly accessible
- Finding aids:
- PADRTA F.-WOWKOVÁ V., Archiv města Jablonec nad Nisou. Inventář, 1969, 172 s., ev. č. 89.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Jewish Museum Prague
- Author of the description:
- JMP Survey, 2015.