Metadata: District Court of Broumov
Collection
- Country:
- Czechia
- Holding institution:
- State District Archives Náchod
- Holding institution (official language):
- Státní okresní archiv Náchod
- Postal address:
- Dobenínská 96, Náchod, 547 01
- Phone number:
- 00420 491 428 294
- Email:
- archiv@soka-na.cz
- Reference number:
- 697
- Title:
- District Court of Broumov
- Title (official language):
- Okresní soud Broumov
- Creator/accumulator:
- District Court of Broumov
- Date(s):
- 1803/1960
- Language:
- Czech
- German
- Extent:
- 64.84 linear metres
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
- The fonds consists of the archive of the judicial administration of the town of Broumov and its vicinity. The inventory consists of very brief entries, and Jews are not mentioned specifically; the small local Jewish community was attached to the religious community in the Czech town of Náchod, later the German town of Trutnov. Relevant materials might be found in inheritance files (sign. IV, A and D) civil dispute files (sign. III, C) and book files (deeds collections).
- Archival history:
- In 1951 the Broumov district court archive was handed over from the former interior ministry archive to the state archive in Kuks, where its inventory was made. After 1960 it was administratively transferred to the Náchod district archive, but for lack of space it stayed physically stored in Kuks under the administration of the state regional archive in Zámrsk. The oldest part of the fonds was physically moved to the state district archive in Náchod in 1991.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- District courts were established in 1849 as the lowest level of the newly organised judicial administration based on the Act of Organisation. Although they have been reformed, these state offices continue to operate today. In the areas annexed by Nazi Germany in 1938 the courts ceased to exist and were replaced by Amtsgerichten according to German law. Broumov district court was renewed in May 1945 and ceased to exist due to territorial reorganisation as of 1 July 1960.
- Subject terms:
- Legal matters
- Wills
- Access, restrictions:
- The collection is only partly accessible.
- Finding aids:
- Košnar, S.-Letocha, J.: Okresní soud Broumov 1850-1914, Inventář, Státní archiv Zámrsk, 1964, 10 + XII s., ev. č. 30.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Jewish Museum Prague
- Author of the description:
- JMP Survey, 2015.