Metadata: District Office 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:
- 2
- Title:
- District Office of Prostějov
- Title (official language):
- Okresní úřad Prostějov
- Creator/accumulator:
- District Office of Prostějov
- Date(s):
- 1820/1953
- Language:
- Czech
- German
- Extent:
- 167.95 linear metres
- Physical condition:
- poor
- Scope and content:
- The fonds contains documents of the political administration of the Prostějov district, mainly from after 1900. Trade registers from 1896–1919 and files of commercial entities relate to the Jewish political community. Documents relating to Jews from the period of the protectorate record the domicile of Jews, practicing of professions, dissolution of Jewish associations, a ban on ritual slaughter and ration cards for Jews. Catalogued presidium files contain more general documents (information and edicts of central authorities). The original registry finding aids must be used for more detailed searches.
- Archival history:
- In the 1950s the fonds was taken to the state archive in Janovice near Rýmařov, where a temporary list was created, and transferred in 1962 to the district archive in Prostějov. It was supplemented to include additions from the registry office of the district national committee of Prostějov. Since 2004 the fonds has been gradually made accessible by means of finding aids (three volumes of inventory, an index for trades files and a catalogue of presidium files), which are located at www.archives.cz, but a significant part remains unarranged.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- A political and judicial district office was created in Prostějov in 1855 as a first-level body of political and judicial administration. The political district of Prostějov was established in 1868, administered by the Bezirkshauptmannschaft (district head office) and acted under different names (district political administration, district office) until 1945. The Jewish political and religious community in Prostějov was in the political district of Prostějov.
- Access points: locations:
- Prostějov
- System of arrangement:
- The fonds comprises Official books, Registry finding aids and File material. The files are arranged according to the original registry systems of the creator.
- Access, restrictions:
- The collection is only partly accessible.
- Finding aids:
- Němcová R.: Okresní úřad Prostějov. I. díl. Smíšený okresní úřad Prostějov. Inventář, 2004, 83 s.; Němcová R.-Václavík O.: Okresní úřad Prostějov. II. díl. Knihy. Inventář, 2008, 33 s.; Němcová R.-Václavík O.: Okresní úřad Prostějov. III. díl. Spisy. Inventář, 2009, 504 s.; Němcová R.: Okresní úřad Prostějov. Všeobecná registratura-signatura G. Rejstřík, 2009, 526 s.; Václavík O.: Okresní úřad Prostějov. Prezidiální spisy. Katalog, 2013, 284 s.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Jewish Museum Prague
- Author of the description:
- JMP Survey, 2015.