Metadata: Archive of the Town of Touškov
Collection
- Country:
- Czechia
- Holding institution:
- State District Archives Plzeň-Sever located in Plasy
- Holding institution (official language):
- Státní okresní archiv Plzeň-sever se sídlem v Plasích
- Postal address:
- Stará cesta 558, Plasy, 331 01
- Phone number:
- 00420 373 340 611
- Email:
- soka-ps@soaplzen.cz
- Reference number:
- 243
- Title:
- Archive of the Town of Touškov
- Title (official language):
- Archiv Města Touškov
- Creator/accumulator:
- Town of Touškov
- Date(s):
- 1561/1947
- Language:
- Czech
- German
- Extent:
- 10.19 linear metres
- Physical condition:
- poor
- Scope and content:
- The unarranged fonds contains documents of local self-government activities. There were 25 Jews in the town of Touškov according to the fiscal rule of 1655, and 11 Jewish families according to the Theresian cadastre of 1748. An almost complete series of land registries is preserved for 1591-1879, based on which the property relations of the town’s inhabitants can be reconstructed. Demographics from the first half of the 20th century are reflected in files of issued domicile certificates from 1907-47 and labour books from 1885-1920 (No. 45-48). The only direct reference to the Jewish population of the town is a correspondence record referring to a merger of the Jewish registry offices of Kozolupy, Bdeněves, Malesic and Touškov from 1835-62 (No. 91).
- Archival history:
- The documents of the municipal office were taken over by the archive of the town of Pilsen, which transferred them in 1972 to the district state archive of Pilsen-North in Plasy. Here they were added to the archival documents from the district state archive of Pislen and roughly organised. A catalogue was created in 1996.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- The first record of Touškov dates from 1115. At the beginning of the Hussite wars Touškov, which until then had been the property of the monastery in Kladruby, was remitted against mortgage and burned down in 1424. In 1785 the monastery closed and the town and surrounding estate became the possession of the Erben family of free yeomen, and eventually of the Starck family. In 1850 Touškov became the seat of the district court and from 1855-68 also of the district office. At that time, the market town was promoted to the status of a town.
- System of arrangement:
- The fonds is divided into charters, official books, files, accounting materials, maps and plans.
- Access, restrictions:
- The collection is not accessible.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Jewish Museum Prague
- Author of the description:
- JMP Survey, 2015.
