Metadata: Archive of the Town of Přerov
Collection
- Country:
- Czechia
- Holding institution:
- State District Archives Přerov
- Holding institution (official language):
- Státní okresní archiv Přerov
- Postal address:
- ul. Sokolů č. 1, Přerov VIII - Henčlov, 750 02
- Phone number:
- 00420 581 20 50 24
- Email:
- podatelna@pr.archives.cz
- Reference number:
- 52
- Title:
- Archive of the Town of Přerov
- Title (official language):
- Archiv města Přerov
- Creator/accumulator:
- Municipal Office of Přerov
- Date(s):
- 1436/1950
- Language:
- Czech
- German
- Latin
- Extent:
- 118.95 linear metres
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
- The fonds contains documents of the municipal self-government of Přerov from 1436 onward. The registry up to the mid-19th century has many gaps. The following documents from after 1850 particularly concern the Jewish community in Přerov: merging of town and Jewish political community, 1919–20, abolition of single-class primary school in the Jewish political community, 1919, and records of Jewish inhabitants, including list of persons intended for forced labour assignment, 1939–41.
- Archival history:
- The oldest documents (charters and town books) have survived by being deposited in the municipal museum. The fonds was recorded in the district archives in 1959. In 1977 the municipal land registries were received from the district archive in Opava. The arrangement and inventory of the fonds is ongoing.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- The first written reference to Přerov is from 1131. In 1256 it became a town. After the Hussite period the town prospered in the possession of the influential Pernstein and Zierotin families. In the second half of the 19th century it became an important railway junction. There is documentary evidence of Jews in Přerov as far back as 1447, and it was one of the few municipalities where Jewish inhabitants were not separated in the 1720s. The town was the seat of the district court (1850–1949) and the district office (1877–1945). 1850 saw the establishment of a separate Jewish political community, which was merged with the town in 1919. Přerov was the birthplace of chief rabbi Abraham Placzek. Many Jews worked for the railway. A synagogue from the 1860s, converted into an Eastern Orthodox temple in 1945, has survived. The old Jewish cemetery was discontinued and the new one from the 1880s is maintained.
- Access points: locations:
- Přerov
- System of arrangement:
- The fonds is divided into Charters, Official books and Files.
- Access, restrictions:
- The collection is not accessible.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Jewish Museum Prague
- Author of the description:
- JMP Survey, 2015.