Metadata: District Court of Úštěk
Collection
- Country:
- Czechia
- Holding institution:
- State District Archives Litoměřice located in Lovosice
- Holding institution (official language):
- Státní okresní archiv Litoměřice se sídlem v Lovosicích
- Postal address:
- Terezínská 909/59, Lovosice, 410 02
- Phone number:
- 00420 477 755 922
- Reference number:
- 466
- Title:
- District Court of Úštěk
- Title (official language):
- Okresní soud Úštěk
- Creator/accumulator:
- District Court of Úštěk
- Date(s):
- 1801/1947
- Language:
- Czech
- German
- Extent:
- 102.6 linear metres
- Physical condition:
- poor
- Scope and content:
- The fonds consists of records arising from the activity of the court that was active in the judicial district of Štětí. Land registry records and associated documents contain files relating to real estate in the Jewish quarter of Úštěk, marked Úštěk - Židovské město” (Úštěk - Jewish Town) (inv. 94).
- Archival history:
- The records were initially kept in the registry of the district court of Úštěk. Some of the records were moved to the archive of the interior ministry in Prague before 1938. In 1949-53 the material in the fonds was transferred to the regional archives in Litoměřice, and in 1955 and 1960 the land registry records were transferred from the archive of the interior ministry to the same location. In 1961 the fonds was moved to the district archives in Litoměřice. This portion of the records was inventoried in 1997. The last portion of the records was moved to the district archives in Litoměřice in 2004-14.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- The district court of Úštěk began its operations in June 1850 as a court of first instance for civil matters in the newly founded judicial district of Úštěk. In a reform of the state administration, new district office (Bezirksamt) with joint political and judicial powers came into being in 1855; the new office Úštěk was active from 1 June 1855. The period of Bezirksamt came to an end in 1868, when there was a definitive separation of political and judicial powers, and judicial powers were transferred to the independent district court of Úštěk. The district court was abolished on 8 October 1938, when it was taken over by the German state authority.
- Subject terms:
- Land registries
- Legal matters
- Real estate
- System of arrangement:
- The records in the fonds are divided into three main groups: (1) Inventory Department, 1850-1897, comprising material from two handling periods, 1850-1855 and 1855-1897, and land registry records, 1850-1897; (2) Inventory Department, 1898-1923, divided into judicial documents and land registry records from 1898-1923; (3) Inventory Department, 1924-1938, with land registry records from this period kept separately.
- Access, restrictions:
- The collection is only partly accessible.
- Finding aids:
- Moravec J. - Najmanová L.-Tomas J., Okresní soud Úštěk 1850 - 1938, Inventář, 1997, 83., ev. č. 245
- Yerusha Network member:
- Jewish Museum Prague
- Author of the description:
- JMP Survey, 2015.
