Metadata: District Court of Tanvald
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:
- 65
- Title:
- District Court of Tanvald
- Title (official language):
- Okresní soud Tanvald
- Creator/accumulator:
- District Court of Tanvald
- Date(s):
- 1815/1959
- Language:
- Czech
- German
- Extent:
- 53.82 linear metres
- Physical condition:
- poor
- Scope and content:
- The fonds contains records of the District Court of Tanvald. Jews are referred to directly in inventory records relating to personal estates (inheritance record of Alfred Weisskopf; inheritance record of Alfred Fleischer). Other records of interest include registration aids and civil and criminal files and land registry records (lists of real estate property, property ownership registers and a collection of documents relating to land registers until 1928). Land registers and documents relating to land registers from 1929 onwards are kept at the cadastral office for the Liberec region.
- Archival history:
- After the abolition of the district court in 1949, files that were no longer required for court purposes were given to the regional court registry in Chrastava. In the 1950s, after appraisals had been carried out, some of the documents were transferred from Chrastava to the state archives of Jablonec nad Nisou, where the fonds was arranged in 1958 and an inventory was made in 1959. Other documents were taken from the court by the former Reichsarchiv in Liberec. All of these archival records were later transferred to the state district archives of Jablonec nad Nisou, which received a large amount of new acquisitions in connection with archival appraisals at the district court of Jablonec nad Nisou and the municipal office of Tanvald. The fonds was rearranged in 2007-08 and new finding aids were created, with two additions being made in 2011.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- The district court of Tanvald was established in 1850 as a court of first instance in the newly created judicial system following the demise of the patrimonial administration. In 1855-68 its functions were carried out by the Bezirksamt (political and judicial district office) of Tanvald. The district court later regained its independence. The regional court in Liberec and the Oberlandesgericht (higher regional court) in Prague were courts of higher instance. The Tanvald court operated as Amtsgericht (district court) from October 1938 until May 1945; this material comprises a separate archival fonds. The original district court renewed its activities in May 1945. As a result of state reform, the court was disbanded on 31 January 1949 and replaced by the district (people's) court of Jablonec nad Nisou.
- Access points: locations:
- Tanvald
- Access points: persons/families:
- Fleischer, Alfred
- Weisskopf, Alfred
- Subject terms:
- Crime
- Land registries
- Legal matters
- Real estate
- Wills
- System of arrangement:
- The fonds comprises two groups: civil/criminal case files and land registry records. The judicial documents contain registration aids (filing registers, civil/criminal indexes and registers) and files (civil and criminal), which are divided into four periods: 1850-1855, 1855-1897, 1898-1923, 1924-1949. The land registry records are divided into two periods: before the establishment of the new land registers (1850-1872) and after the establishment of the new land registers (1872-1949).
- Access, restrictions:
- The collection is only partly accessible
- Finding aids:
- KAŠPAR J., Okresní soud Tanvald, 1850-1949 (1956). Inventář, 2008, 68 s., ev. č. 550.
- Links to finding aids:
- http://matriky.soalitomerice.cz/vademecum/
- Yerusha Network member:
- Jewish Museum Prague
- Author of the description:
- JMP Survey, 2015.