Metadata: District Court of Prachatice
Collection
- Country:
- Czechia
- Holding institution:
- State District Archives Prachatice
- Holding institution (official language):
- Státní okresní archiv Prachatice
- Postal address:
- Vodňanská 329, Prachatice, 383 01
- Phone number:
- 00420 388 608 250
- Email:
- posta-pt@ceskearchivy.cz
- Reference number:
- 13
- Title:
- District Court of Prachatice
- Title (official language):
- Okresní soud Prachatice
- Creator/accumulator:
- District Court of Prachatice
- Date(s):
- 1850/2005
- Language:
- Czech
- German
- Extent:
- 324.04 linear metres
- Physical condition:
- poor
- Scope and content:
- The fonds contains documents of the first-instance court for the judicial district of Prachatice. There are criminal and civil agendas (disputes, inheritance estates, guardianships) from 1850-1938, land books and a collection of testaments. For the time being, the files can only be searched by name indexes.
- Archival history:
- The documents were taken over by the state archive in Třeboň in 1950, directly from the registry of the people's court in Prachatice. The fonds was first arranged in 1958, and in 1960 it was rearranged (archival documents from 1850-97). In 1962 the fonds was transferred to the district archive in Prachatice and in 1966, the records from 1898-1938 were arranged. The post-1945 documents were arranged after 1971.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- The district court of Prachatice began to operate in 1850 within the area of the regional court in Písek, also having the function of the district criminal court. In 1855-73 it was also the court of enquiry. In 1855 the political and judicial administrations were merged and Bezirksamt (political and judicial district offices) operated until 1868. In 1938 the court stopped its activities due to the Munich Agreement and was replaced by the German Amtsgericht. In May 1945 it was reinstated, and operated until 1949 when it was replaced by the people's court in Prachatice.
- Access points: locations:
- Prachatice
- Subject terms:
- Crime
- Land registries
- Legal matters
- Wills
- System of arrangement:
- The arranged documents of the fonds are divided into four storage periods. The archival documents from 1850-1897 are divided into: 1. Judicial agenda, 2. Agenda of land books, 3. Collection of testaments. Provisional lists are made for the archival records from 1898-1923, 1924-1938, and 1945-1991.
- Access, restrictions:
- The collection is only partly accessible.
- Finding aids:
- Haubert J. - Hezl J. - Lesák V.: Okresní soud Prachatice 1850-1897. Inventář, Prachatice 1994, 32 s., ev. č. 4; Starý, V.: Okresní soud Prachatice 1898-1923. Manipulační seznam prvního typu, Prachatice 1994, 18 s., ev. č. 1279; Starý, V.: Okresní soud Prachatice 1924-1938. Manipulační seznam prvního typu, Prachatice 1995, 16 s., ev. č. 1280; Mikšovská, M.: Okresní soud Prachatice 1945-1991. Manipulační seznam prvního typu, Prachatice 2013, 34 s., ev. č. 1281.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Jewish Museum Prague
- Author of the description:
- JMP Survey, 2015.