Metadata: Archive of the Town of Zlaté Hory
Collection
- Country:
- Czechia
- Holding institution:
- State District Archives Jeseník
- Holding institution (official language):
- Státní okresní archiv Jeseník
- Postal address:
- Tovární 18, Jeseník, 790 01
- Phone number:
- 00420 584 411 710
- Email:
- podatelna@je.archives.cz
- Reference number:
- 503
- Title:
- Archive of the Town of Zlaté Hory
- Title (official language):
- Archiv města Zlaté Hory
- Creator/accumulator:
- Municipal Office of Zlaté Hory
- Date(s):
- 1426/1965
- Language:
- German
- Czech
- Latin
- Extent:
- 63.09 linear metres
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
- The fonds of the Zlaté Hory municipal archive is relatively well preserved. For the period after 1850, the most valuable files are meeting minutes of the municipal board, council and commissions from 1850-1938, lists of residents, census records and files on the town's construction agenda. The agenda from 1864-1940 is nearly complete. There is also plentiful material on the history of the various municipal enterprises and facilities. Files relevant to Jewish history include a record of an oral request from several Zlaté Hory burghers that Jews not be allowed to lease brewing rights or a house with such rights, 1848 (inv. 1073); various unclassified documents, including anti-Jewish measures, lists of Jewish tradespeople, merchants and homeowners, confiscation of Jewish assets and naming of forced administrators and introducing of unified Jewish first names, 1939 (inv. 1229/39); instructions of the Landrat (district councillor) in Jeseník for the administration of Jewish assets, treatment of Jews and marking them with a Star of David, 1941-42 (inv. 1247); and conversion of expropriated Jewish houses and land in Zlaté Hory into municipal property, 1944 (inv. 326). Relevant material may also be found in requests for allocation of domicile rights and domicile certificates, 1846-1940 (inv. 180-239, 270-275, 1003, 1062, 1141, 1214); alphabetical lists of persons admitted to the municipal union, awarding of burgher right, 1759-1940 (inv. 165-166, 1049, 1118, 1159); registers and lists of municipal and foreign residents, 1830-1938 (inv. 167-179); census by houses and population records, 1786-1940 (inv. 359-403, 1228); immigration, foreigners and residence permits, 1830-1944) (inv. 166, 175, 178, 179, 1246); granting of trade licences and lists of trades, crafts and business, 1827-1940 (inv. 57, 1110, 1146, 1212); parcel records, 1836-87 (inv. 67, 68); application of residence permits and deregistrations of residence, 1857-1945 (inv. 276-352); Dr Schweinburg's sanatorium, 1882-1911 (inv. 314-319); spa guests’ statements, 1846-1914 (inv. 996, 1151); and land books, 1732-1858 (inv. 16-64).
- Archival history:
- In the past the written material of the municipal office was stored at the town hall. Due to frequent fires, only a fragment of the oldest written documents has been preserved. The land books and court files were transferred to the archives of the provincial court in Opava in 1858. After 1850, a special room was set aside for the remaining files at the town hall; some of the material, in particular charters and seals, was stored in the municipal museum in the first half of the 20th century. The municipal archive remained at the town hall after 1945, and in 1957 was partly transferred to the district archives in Jeseník, from where it was transferred to the Bruntál district archives in Krnov in 1961. In 1964 the court files from the Šumperk district archives in Javorník were also moved here. The remaining files that had stayed in the registry office of the municipal national committee in Zlaté Hory were transferred to the archives in Krnov in 1973. In 1996, the fonds was transferred to the newly established Jeseník state district archives.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- The town of Zlaté Hory (German: Zuckmantel, also Edelstadt, Czech: Cukmantl from 1919-49 is first mentioned as a village in 1263. In 1306 it was given the status a town, led by a reeve and sworn judges. From the 15th century, the town was led by a town council with a port reeve and councillors. The town belonged to the princes of Opava until 1477 and later to the bishops of Wroclaw. Zlaté Hory was a free mining town. In 1849 the town, led by an elected local self-government, belonged under the Bezirkshauptmannschaft (district head office) in Jeseník; in 1855-68 a Bezirksamt (political and judicial district office) was established in the town. From 1868-1938 the town belonged under the district Office in Jeseník, then until 1945 under the Landrat (district councillor) in Jeseník. A small Jewish community lived in Zlaté Hory before 1938 (in 1930 there were 34 Jewish inhabitants), but did not have its own religious community. Local Jews were buried in the town cemetery in section VII.
- Access points: locations:
- Zlaté Hory
- Subject terms:
- Antisemitism
- Antisemitism--Antisemitic measures
- Census records
- Health and medical matters
- Holocaust
- Holocaust--Yellow star
- Land
- Migration
- Migration--Immigration
- Plunder
- Professions
- Professions--Crafts
- Real estate
- Residency issues of Jews
- Trade and commerce
- Trade and commerce--Alcohol trade
- System of arrangement:
- The fonds is arranged as follows: I. Charters; II. Official book - 1. Administrative books, 2. Register books, 3. Books of privileges and chronicles; III. Files - 1. Registry aids, 2. Files; IV. Accounting material; V. Maps and plans; VI. Other material.
- Access, restrictions:
- The collection is only partly accessible
- Finding aids:
- Juchelková, Libuše: Archiv města Zlaté Hory 1426-1945 (1965). Inventář, 1976, 300 s., ev.č. 19.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Jewish Museum Prague
- Author of the description:
- JMP Survey, 2015.
