Metadata: Archive of the Town of Teplice
Collection
- Country:
- Czechia
- Holding institution:
- State District Archives Teplice
- Holding institution (official language):
- Státní okresní archiv Teplice
- Postal address:
- Školní 8, Teplice, 415 01
- Phone number:
- 00420 477 755 912
- Email:
- sokateplice@soalitomerice.cz
- Reference number:
- 121
- Title:
- Archive of the Town of Teplice
- Title (official language):
- Archiv města Teplice
- Creator/accumulator:
- Municipal Office of Teplice
- Date(s):
- 1449/1945
- Language:
- Czech
- German
- Hebrew
- Latin
- Extent:
- 237.43 linear metres
- Physical condition:
- poor
- Scope and content:
- The fonds contains documents of the administration of the town of Teplice. Jewish-related documents may be found in the following files: list of Jews living in Teplice manor in 1815 (inv. 724); Jewish religious community, 1806–49 (inv. 725); reconstruction of the Jewish savings bank, 1902–08 (inv. 1003); former Jewish religious community (inv. 1588); Jewish religious community, 1850–96 (inv. 1634); resettlement of Jews-alphabetically, 1939 (inv. 2240); demolition of Teplice Jewish town, 1938–39 (inv. 2413); Jewish temple, 1932, 1939 (inv. 2683); rent relationship of Jews, 1939–42 (inv. 2684); cancelling the honorary citizenship of the Jew Ignaz Hirsch, 1939 (inv. 2800); Jewish Foundation, 1937 (inv. 2884); detecting deposits made by Jews, 1939 (inv. 2889); Jewish house property, 1938–39 (inv. 2972); Jewish apartments, 1939 (inv. 2973); libel damages for the Finze Company, 1939 (inv. 2982); Jewish confiscations-alphabetically, 1940–45 (inv. 3231–3233); Jewish cemetery, 1943–44 (inv. 3517); sale iron from the Jewish cemetery, 1940 (inv. 3564); purchase of house 589-Jewish property, 1941–44 (inv. 3643); transfer of Jewish property to the ownership of the town, 1942 (inv. 3649); Jewish real estate, 1942–44 (inv. 3657); “Aryanisation” of house 289, 1940–41 (inv. 3663); Jewish private school, 1914 (inv. 4169); tuition books of the Jewish special school, 1887–98 (inv. 4547–4553); Jewish synagogue-demolition, disposal of material, 1938–39 (inv. 5549); property left by the Jewish community, 1940–45 (inv. 5569); seizure of Jewish and Czech houses, 1939–40 (inv. 5570); seizure of Czech and Jewish property, 1939–41 (inv. 5577); old Jewish cemetery, 1934–44 (inv. 5636); Jewish cemetery, undated (inv. 5849); Jews, 1839–97 (inv. 17006); books of seats in the synagogue, 1823–66 (inv. 17919–17920). Records of the Jewish population can also likely be found in a card file concerning the right of domicile, 1900–38 (inv. 17610–17612), a card file of town residents, 1938–45 and the town chronicle (inv. 422–427). The fonds also contains undated plans of the Teplice synagogue (inv. 5848) and a plan of the Jewish cemetery (inv. 5849).
- Archival history:
- The first part of the fonds was taken by the archive in 1949 from the town museum, other transfers taking place in 1950 and 1955 from the town national committee in Teplice. In the early 1970s the fonds began to be arranged, and the inventory was completed in 1975.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- The first records of this peasant town date from the second half of the 12th century. In 1813, Teplice hosted the meeting of three monarchs, the Prussian and Austrian emperors and the Russian tsar, who negotiated a coalition against Napoleon. At that time Teplice was already a well-known European spa. After the 1848 revolution, Prince Aldringen released the town from servitude, and in the same year the Jewish inhabitants of the town became full citizens. The first half of 19th century saw the discovery of coal deposits and the rapid development of the railroads, and Teplice began to change into an industrial town. The population was 2,295 in 1843 and 24,413 in 1900. Under the First Czechoslovak Republic, the town was sustained by industry but was still a commercial spa location. In the Nazi occupation of the border areas, Teplice and neighbouring towns in the Sudetenland were subject to a German system of government with a Landrat (district councillor) office and a German municipal office.
- Access points: locations:
- Teplice
- Access points: persons/families:
- Hirsch, Ignaz
- Subject terms:
- Cemeteries
- Citizenship
- Education
- Education--Schools and universities
- Financial matters
- Financial matters--Banks, banking, and bankers
- Financial records
- Jewish community
- Maps
- Plunder
- Plunder--Aryanisation
- Real estate
- Resettlement of Jews
- Residency issues of Jews
- Synagogues
- Vital records
- System of arrangement:
- The fonds is divided into documents in the form of originals and copies, and then books before 1850 and books after 1850. The files are preceded by registry finding aids. The files themselves are divided into the period of the mayor 1550-1782, the controlled town council 1782-1850, the self-governing municipal office and the Bürgermeisteramt (Mayor's Office) 1938-1945 from the period of the Nazi Occupation. The documents of the municipal income, the municipal building office, the municipal police office, and the municipal enterprises (theater, spa, cinema, waterworks, and gasworks), and collections are arranged separately.
- Access, restrictions:
- The collection is only partly accessible.
- Finding aids:
- Šístek J. a kol., Archiv města Teplic, Inventář, 1981, 174 s. (historický úvod); Šístek J. a kol., Archiv města Teplic II./1 a II./2, Inventář, 1975, 590 s.; Archiv města Teplic (dodatky), Prozatimní inventární seznam, 1995, 10 s. (knihy městského soudnictví a knihy židovské obce)
- Yerusha Network member:
- Jewish Museum Prague
- Author of the description:
- JMP Survey, 2015.