Metadata: District Office of Klatovy I
Collection
- Country:
- Czechia
- Holding institution:
- State District Archives Klatovy
- Holding institution (official language):
- Státní okresní archiv Klatovy
- Postal address:
- Mayerova 128, Klatovy, 339 01
- Phone number:
- 00420 376 360 716
- Email:
- soka-kt@soaplzen.cz
- Reference number:
- 1159
- Title:
- District Office of Klatovy I
- Title (official language):
- Okresní úřad Klatovy I.
- Creator/accumulator:
- District Office of Klatovy
- Date(s):
- 1837/1946
- Language:
- Czech
- German
- Extent:
- 163.45 linear metres
- Physical condition:
- poor
- Scope and content:
- The fonds contains documents of the political administration of the Klatovy district (judicial districts of Klatovy, Nýrsko and Plánice) from 1850-1945. Relevant for Jewish history are the following archival documents in the presidium files for 1850-1918: inv. 70, box 1 (Jews - Nýrsko, 1853, without further specification); inv. 187, box 2 (situation report on the persecution of Jews in the district, 1861); inv. 688, box 5 (display of anti-Jewish posters and dissemination of Rohling’s brochure “Meine Antworten an die Rabiner” in Nýrsko, 1883); inv. 1932, box 14 (antisemitic tensions among the workers in Nýrsko, 1911); boxes 19 and 20 (Jewish refugees from Galicia in Nýrsko, 1915-16); and inv. 2704, box 23 (Galician rabbi Chaim Schapir arrested in Nýrsko). Inventory numbers 1158, 1633, 1659, 1944 and 2158 relate to factories in Nýrsko owned by Jewish businessmen. The presidial documents from 1918-38 contain the following relevant documents: inv. 1296 and 1302, box 14 (immigrants from Germany in Nýrsko, 1933); inv. 1871, box 21 (Sudetendeutsche Partei (SdP) pamphlets against Jews in Nýrsko, 1936). Optical factories in Nýrsko and their Jewish owners are recorded in inventory numbers 695, 743, 748, 976, 1365, 1572, 1576, 2013, 2182, 2217 and 2322. In the general agenda of the district office of Klatovy there are alphabetical files relating to churches, parish offices and Jewish communities in the district from 1855-67 (inv. 818) and 1868-78 (inv. 853) and independently to Jewish religious communities from 1921-31 (inv. 1011), 1932-37 (inv. 1087) and 1939-41 (inv. 1260).
- Archival history:
- The documents of the district office in Klatovy were originally housed at the authority’s office. During the second world war, older documents from the years 1855-88 were transferred to the archives of the ministry of the interior in Prague; in 1949 they were moved to the regional archives in Plasy and in 1956 to the regional state archive in Pilsen. This archive also took over newer documents from the district national committee in Klatovy. The fonds was arranged in 1958-59, and in 1960 it was transferred to the district state archive in Klatovy where they were arranged and an inventory was created.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- The Bezirkshauptmannschaft (district head office) in Klatovy managed 202 cadastral municipalities in the judicial districts of Klatovy, Nýrsko and Plánice. From 1855-68 the Bezirksamt (political and judicial district office) of Klatovy operated, with separate district offices for Nyrsko and Plánice. In 1868 the administration of justice was again separated and the Bezirkshauptmannschaft (district head office) in Klatovy was responsible for managing only the political administration for all three judicial districts. The biggest change in territorial authority came in October 1938 with the detachment of the Nýrsko judicial district. In 1942, the villages of the defunct district office of Přeštice came under the control of the Klatovy district office. The office ceased to exist with the creation of the district national committee of Klatovy in 1945.
- Access points: persons/families:
- Schapir, Chaim
- System of arrangement:
- The presidium files of the Klatovy District Authority are arranged in the form of a catalogue, provided with registers, according to which it is possible to look for people, places and topics. Other arranged archival documents have their inventory. Documents are divided in the inventory into a total of 9 units, ordered chronologically; within each unit, files are classified by subject matters. The individual units, including documents related to churches, contain part of the documents on Jewish religious communities.
- Access, restrictions:
- The collection is only partly accessible.
- Finding aids:
- Antonín Macák: Okresní úřad Klatovy 1850–1945, inventář, 1959; Jarmila Hofmannová: Okresní úřad Klatovy, presidiální spisy 1850–1918, katalog, 1978; Jarmila Hofmannová: Okresní úřad Klatovy, presidiální spisy 1918–1938, katalog, 1975; Jarmila Hofmannová: Okresní úřad Klatovy, presidiální spisy 1939–1945, katalog, 1980.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Jewish Museum Prague
- Author of the description:
- JMP Survey, 2015.
