Metadata: District Office of Turnov
Collection
- Country:
- Czechia
- Holding institution:
- State District Archives Semily
- Holding institution (official language):
- Státní okresní archiv Semily
- Postal address:
- Archivní 570, Semily-Podmoklice, 513 01
- Phone number:
- 00420 488 577 832
- Email:
- sokasemily@soalitomerice.cz
- Reference number:
- 5
- Title:
- District Office of Turnov
- Title (official language):
- Okresní úřad Turnov
- Creator/accumulator:
- District Office of Turnov
- Date(s):
- 1825/1952
- Language:
- Czech
- German
- Extent:
- 167.43 linear metres
- Physical condition:
- poor
- Scope and content:
- The political district Trutnov was home to two Jewish communities, in Český Dub and Turnov, merged in 1890 into the Jewish religious community of Trutnov. The largest number of people of Jewish origin lived in Turnov and some families lived in villages near Turnov and in the territory of the judicial district of Český Dub. This corresponds to the low percentage of data concerning Jews in the Sudetenland in the fonds of the district office of Turnov. For the period until 1938, the most important source is the census records of municipalities of the district of Český Dub from 1869, 1880, 1890, 1900 and 1910, especially boxes 933, 950, 980, 1004 and 1005. The 1921 census records are stored in an artificial collection in the state district archive in Liberec. Census records from 1930 are also stored outside the region, in the national archive in Prague. Due to the German annexation of the Czech borderland in 1938, many Jews from Jablonec nad Nisou and Liberec quickly moved and settled behind the new frontier. This was especially the case of Železný Brod and Turnov and several adjacent villages. From 1938-43 more than 600 people of Jewish origin subject to registration appeared in the decreased district of Turnov. The following archival units provide data on them: Registers of change of religion, 1936-48 (inv. 44-45) and files in boxes 733, 740, 758, 759 and 764 relating to 1938-45. In the presidium files, the sources stored in boxes 60, 61, 65 and 68 concern the same period.
- Archival history:
- Other than census records, until 1938 the files in the fonds were not transferred to the state archive, as the fonds was not subject to revision by the archive of the interior ministry. The fonds was then stored until 1955 in the newly acquired premises of the Turnov district archive at the Hrubý Rohozec chateau, where it was transported from the district national committee in Turnov. In 1979 it was transferred to the regional archives in Bystrá nad Jizerou, and permanently in 1995 to a new building in Semily.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- The manorial administration in the territory was replaced by a state administration with separate political, judicial and taxation powers. Turnov fell under the regional government in Jičín and the sub-regional offices were formed by the judicial districts of Turnov and Český Dub. Despite institutional changes, the district office of Turnov existed until May 3 1945, when it was replaced by the revolutionary district national committee. The territorial scope of the office underwent many changes in 1938-42. First, in the fall of 1938, some municipalities were separated and put under the administration of the newly established Landrat (district councillor’s office) in Liberec of the Reichsgau Sudetenland. Following the closure of the district office in Jilemnice and the affiliation of its territory to the district office in Semily, several other villages were transferred from the political district of Semily to the district of Turnov on 1 June 1942.
- Subject terms:
- Census
- Conversion to Christianity
- Migration
- Occupation (military)
- System of arrangement:
- The fonds is divided into official books, file material, accounting material, register of births, deaths and marriages, water book and section of forest and technical materials. The files as the most important and the most commonly used archival group are divided into presidium files, general registry with eight file schemes and census records (1857-1921). There is a catalogue for the presidium files.
- Access, restrictions:
- The collection is only partly accessible.
- Finding aids:
- Beran, Rudolf a kol., Okresní úřad Turnov (1687) [1825] 1850–1945 [1952]. Bystrá nad Jizerou 1984.; Beran, Rudolf - Činovcová, Ilona: Katalog. Okresní úřad Turnov. Presidiální spisy 1850–1945. Bystrá nad Jizerou 1984 (2 sv.).
- Yerusha Network member:
- Jewish Museum Prague
- Author of the description:
- JMP Survey, 2015.