Metadata: Archive of the Town of Stod
Collection
- Country:
- Czechia
- Holding institution:
- State District Archives Plzeň-Jih located in Blovice
- Holding institution (official language):
- Státní okresní archiv Plzeň-jih se sídlem v Blovicích
- Postal address:
- Branka 669, Blovice, 336 01
- Phone number:
- 00420 371 522 050
- Email:
- soka-pj@soaplzen.cz
- Reference number:
- 388
- Title:
- Archive of the Town of Stod
- Title (official language):
- Archiv města Stod
- Creator/accumulator:
- Town of Stod
- Date(s):
- 1550/1948
- Language:
- Czech
- German
- Latin
- Extent:
- 21.54 linear metres
- Physical condition:
- poor
- Scope and content:
- The fonds contains documents of the local self-government of the town of Stod, where Jewish families resided from the mid-19th century. The Jewish religious community was established in Stod in 1893. Information regarding the affairs of Jewish citizens are recorded in documents registered under inv. 314, including seizure of property of Jewish companies and families and their subsequent forced administration, 1938-42, damage to the synagogue and a change of proprietor, 1938-42, and Jewish registries, 1938-40. Attention should also be paid to the registration documents of inhabitants, land registers, archival documents related to civil law and right of domicile, commerce, industry and trade and land books.
- Archival history:
- Documents of the municipal office of Stod and its predecessor were deposited at the Stod town hall. Some were later transferred to the Stod district archive in Staňkov. After territorial reorganisation in 1960, these documents were given to the district archive of Pilsen-South in Blovice. Other records, mainly files, were kept in the town hall cellar and given to the district archive of Pilsen-South, having been damaged by damp and mould, in 1977. Land registers were transferred to the district archive of Pilsen-South from the state archive in Pilsen in 1972. The inhabitants register from 1938-45 (1948) was handed over to the district archive of Pilsen-South by the municipal authority of Stod in 1992.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- The first record of Stod dates from 1235, when King Wenceslaus I donated the village of Stod to the female Premonstratensian monastery in Chotěšov. After the Hussite wars, Stod was owned by several noble families, the last noble the Thurn-Taxis family. In 1850, Stod was given the status of a town. From 1949-60 it was a district town.
- Access points: locations:
- Stod
- Access, restrictions:
- The collection is only partly accessible.
- Finding aids:
- Skala V. - Bočanová J. - Kavková M, Archiv města Stod 1550-1945 (1948). Inventář I., 1985, 17 s., ev. č. 262.; Skala V. - Bočanová J. - Kavková M, Archiv města Stod 1660-1945. Inventář II., 1985, 13 s., ev. č. 263.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Jewish Museum Prague
- Author of the description:
- JMP Survey, 2015.
