Metadata: Archive of the Town of Mohelnice
Collection
- Country:
- Czechia
- Holding institution:
- State District Archives Šumperk
- Holding institution (official language):
- Státní okresní archiv Šumperk
- Postal address:
- Bří Čapků 2684/35, 787 01 Šumperk
- Phone number:
- 00420 583 212 248
- Email:
- podatelna@su.archives.cz
- Reference number:
- 1447
- Title:
- Archive of the Town of Mohelnice
- Title (official language):
- Archiv města Mohelnice
- Creator/accumulator:
- Town of Mohelnice
- Date(s):
- 1544/1947
- Language:
- Czech
- German
- Extent:
- 79.12 linear metres
- Physical condition:
- poor
- Scope and content:
- The fonds contains the documents of the local self-government of Mohlenice. Only documents from the period of the Holocaust concern Jews: Jews and the seizing of Jewish property, 1939–40; real estate-inventory and confiscated Jewish property, 1941–45.
- Archival history:
- The fonds was originally stored at the town hall. In 1958–60 it was taken over by the Šumperk state district archive. It was arranged and inventoried at the beginning of the 1970s.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- Mohelnice (German: Müglitz) is first mentioned in 1131; at some point before 1273, it was given town status. It was part of the Mírov manor until 1848, then became an independent municipality. Political district: Zábřeh (1850–55), Mohelnice (1855–68), Zábřeh (since 1868). Judicial district: Mohelnice (1850–1949). From 1870–1938 there was a Jewish prayer association here.
- Access points: locations:
- Mohlenice
- Subject terms:
- Holocaust
- Plunder
- Real estate
- System of arrangement:
- The fonds is arranged as follows: I. Charters; II. Municipal books and registers up to 1850: A. Books on assurance of municipal rights, B. Books on assurance of rights and property of burghers and vassals of the town, C. Other books; II. Municipal books and registers after 1850: A. Administrative books, B. Property and economic books, C. Other books; III. Ledgers; IV. Files: A. Registry aids, B. Files; V. Maps and plans.
- Finding aids:
- Spurný, F.; Mičková, E.; Pánek, F.: Archiv města Mohelnice 1544–1945 (1947). Inventář, 1973, 214 s., ev. č. 403.
- Links to finding aids:
- http://vademecum.archives.cz/vademecum
- Yerusha Network member:
- Jewish Museum Prague
- Author of the description:
- JMP Survey, 2015.