Metadata: Archive of the Town of Moravská Třebová
Collection
- Country:
- Czechia
- Holding institution:
- State District Archives Svitavy located in Litomyšl
- Holding institution (official language):
- Státní okresní archiv Svitavy se sídlem v Litomyšli
- Postal address:
- Jiráskovo nám. 270, Litomyšl, 570 01
- Phone number:
- 00420 461 614 810
- Email:
- archiv@lit.cz
- Reference number:
- 34
- Title:
- Archive of the Town of Moravská Třebová
- Title (official language):
- Archiv města Moravská Třebová
- Creator/accumulator:
- Town of Moravská Třebová
- Date(s):
- 1372/1946
- Language:
- German
- Czech
- Latin
- Extent:
- 150.0 linear metres
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
- The fonds contains documents of the administration and self-government of the town of Moravská Třebová. The only section that concerns Jewish history is Jews (without further specifications), 1841–49 (inv. 2803, box 202). Other documents concerning the Jewish population may be found in registers of municipality inhabitants, which include entries on Jews, though the entries are ordered by house number or name rather than religion.
- Archival history:
- By the first half of the 19th century the Moravská Třebová town archive was known as one of the richest in Moravia. However, in the following years a number of archival records, some of them relatively rare, came into private ownership and were placed in the former provincial archive in Brno or the national museum in Prague. The displacement of archival records continued until the end of the 19th century. The remains of the former archives were given in 1907 to the town museum of Moravská Třebová, where partial lists were gradually made. The archives remained part of the museum after 1945, and only in 1967 was the material transferred to the district archive in Litomyšl and Polička, where it was finally arranged and inventoried.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- The town was likely founded around the middle of the 13th century when the administration of its surroundings was moved from a small castle in Hradisko u Starého Města. The town was administered by a Landesherrschaftlicher Beamter (land manorial officer) in the 14th century, when it belonged to John Henry, Margrave of Moravia. The bureaucratisation of the town administration was completed during Josephinian Reforms by the establishment of a controlled town council. This was dissolved in 1850 and replaced by an elected town council headed by a mayor. In 1938 the town was annexed to Germany and subordinated under German administrative regulations to a newly established Landrat (district councillor) with its seat in Moravská Třebová. In May 1945 Moravská Třebová was restored to the liberated Czechoslovak Republic. After a short period under an administrative commission a national committee was elected as the new body of state power and self-government.
- Access points: locations:
- Moravská Třebová
- Subject terms:
- Jewish community
- Vital records
- System of arrangement:
- The fonds is arranged as follows: Deeds (deed 1372-1796), Official books and manuscripts (official books 1372-1945), Registry finding aids (filing protocols 1788-1945), Files 1786-1850), Files (boxes 1567-1945/1946/), Others (documents 1597-1669).
- Finding aids:
- Půžová B.-Růžička J.-Štěpánek J.-Tíkal J.:Archiv města Moravská Třebová 1372 - 1945 (1946). Inventář, 1970, ev. č. 168.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Jewish Museum Prague
- Author of the description:
- JMP Survey, 2015.