Metadata: Archive of the Town of Prostějov
Collection
- Country:
- Czechia
- Holding institution:
- State District Archives Prostějov
- Holding institution (official language):
- Státní okresní archiv Prostějov
- Postal address:
- Třebízského 1-3, Prostějov, 796 01
- Phone number:
- 00420 582 30 15 11
- Email:
- podatelna@pv.archives.cz
- Reference number:
- 13
- Title:
- Archive of the Town of Prostějov
- Title (official language):
- Archiv města Prostějov
- Creator/accumulator:
- Municipal Office of Prostějov
- Date(s):
- 1392/1968
- Language:
- Czech
- German
- Latin
- Hungarian
- Extent:
- 240.88 linear metres
- Type of material:
- Photographic images
- Physical condition:
- poor
- Scope and content:
- The fonds contains documents of the municipal self-government of Prostějov from 1342 onward. Documents from the period of the protectorate relate to ancestry and exclusion of Jews from municipal bodies; Jews in town houses, Jewish property, purchase of Jewish real estate by the town and expropriation of property; the Jewish cemetery, synagogues and Makkabi stadium; domicile right and a ban on Jews entering the town centre; and legal standing and eviction of Jews.
- Archival history:
- Documents until 1870 were taken over by the archives in 1955 from the municipal museum. The fonds was supplemented to include additions taken gradually from the registry office of the municipal national committee of Prostějov. Substantial arrangement took place in the 1970s, and in 1979 four inventory volumes were created. A smaller part of the fonds remains unarranged.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- The location is first mentioned in 1141 as the village of Prostějovice. By 1390 it was classified as a town. It prospered under the house of Pernstein in the 16th century. The Mandl brothers were instrumental in the development of Prostějovice’s clothing industry in the second half of the 19th century, and agricultural engineering was also an important industry for the town. From 1855, the town was the seat of the district office and the district court. Jews are documented in Prostějov from 1445, and in the 18th century and the first half of the 19th it became the second-largest Jewish community in Moravia. A self-governing Jewish political community was established here in 1850 and merged with the town in 1919.
- Access points: locations:
- Prostějov
- System of arrangement:
- The fonds contains Charters, Official books, Registry finding aids, File material, a Card index, Maps and a Photo album. The arranged files retain the registry systems of the creator.
- Access, restrictions:
- The collection is only partly accessible.
- Finding aids:
- Grůzová L. - Karný L.: Archiv města Prostějov, díl I., svazek 1. Inventář, 1979, 280 s., ev. č. 288; Grůzová L. - Karný L.: Archiv města Prostějov, díl I., svazek 2. Inventář, 1979, 127 s., ev. č. 289; Grůzová L. - Karný L.: Archiv města Prostějov, díl II., svazek 1. Dílčí inventář, 1979, 191 s., ev. č. 290; Grůzová L. - Karný L.: Archiv města Prostějov, díl II., svazek 2. Dílčí inventář, 1979, 97 s., ev. č. 291.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Jewish Museum Prague
- Author of the description:
- JMP Survey, 2015.