Metadata: Archive of the Town of Vrchlabí
Collection
- Country:
- Czechia
- Holding institution:
- State District Archives Trutnov
- Holding institution (official language):
- Státní okresní archiv Trutnov
- Postal address:
- Komenského 128, Trutnov 1, 541 01
- Phone number:
- 00420 499 829 411
- Email:
- soka-tu@centrum.cz
- Reference number:
- 764
- Title:
- Archive of the Town of Vrchlabí
- Title (official language):
- Archiv města Vrchlabí
- Creator/accumulator:
- Town of Vrchlabí
- Date(s):
- 1533/1945
- Language:
- German
- Extent:
- 46.91 linear metres
- Physical condition:
- poor
- Scope and content:
- The fonds contains records of the Vrchlabí municipality. The following records relate to Jewish history from 1850–1945: Jewish wedding records in the register of the Jičín rabbinate, 1899 (inv. 761, box 124); Jewish cemetery construction and approval for use (inv. 912, box 130); sale and lease of Jewish and Czech property, 1939–40 (inv. 1782, box 173); Jewish cemetery, 1943 (inv. 1870, box 189). The following records are also worthy of attention: chronicles, 1732–1937; land registers, 1690–1880; and census lists and birth, marriage and death registers, 1820–1929. There are also records relating to Jewish history in other parts of the fonds.
- Archival history:
- The archive of the Vrchlabí municipality was originally kept in the archives of the Krkonoše museum in Vrchlabí. The records were gradually transferred from the museum to the state district archive in Trutnov between 1917 and 1959. The last items, land registers from the state regional archive in Zámrsk, were transferred in 1996.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- The first recorded mention of Vrchlabí dates from 1359. A controlled town council was established in 1790. The municipality was granted autonomy under Count Stadion's provisional municipality act of 1849. A new municipal constitution was introduced in 1859 and a district assembly came to the fore in 1864 to counterbalance the Bezirkshauptmannschaft (district head office). After 1918 the local German population declared allegiance to the newly established region of Deutschböhmen and in the 1930s the region saw the rapid rise of Nazism.
- System of arrangement:
- The fonds is arranged as follows: I. Documents; II. Official books; III. Files: a) Auxiliary books, b) Files from 1790-1849, 1849-1874, 1874-1905, 1905-1933, 1933-1939; IV. Accounting material; V. Seal matrices; VI. Maps and plans.
- Access, restrictions:
- The collection is only partly accessible.
- Finding aids:
- Šormová L., Archiv města Vrchlabí 1533 - 1945. Inventář, 2000, 297 s., ev. č. 353.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Jewish Museum Prague
- Author of the description:
- JMP Survey, 2015.
