Metadata: Archive of the Town of Uherské Hradiště
Collection
- Country:
- Czechia
- Holding institution:
- State District Archives Uherské Hradiště
- Holding institution (official language):
- Státní okresní archiv Uherské Hradiště
- Postal address:
- Velehradská 124, Uherské Hradiště, 686 01
- Phone number:
- 00420 572 552 634
- Email:
- soka_uherskehradiste@mza.cz
- Reference number:
- 716
- Title:
- Archive of the Town of Uherské Hradiště
- Title (official language):
- Archiv města Uherské Hradiště
- Creator/accumulator:
- Town of Uherské Hradiště
- Date(s):
- 1297/1945
- Language:
- Czech
- German
- Latin
- Extent:
- 127.65 linear metres
- Scope and content:
- The fonds contains very extensive documentation of the municipal self-government of Uherské Hradiště. It includes medieval charters, such as: 1342 - Margrave Karel gives the town a Jewish payment; 1453 - King Ladislaus the Posthumous gives the town a Jewish payment; 1497 - King Vladislaus II the Jagiellonian confirms that the Hradiště Jews belong to the town and its rights; 1514 - King Vladislaus II the Jagiellonian banishes the Jews from the town; also a document of the Abbot of Velehrad on payment of debts to the Jew Izák 1480). Records of the Jewish population are also included in both of the oldest municipal books: Liber negotiorum civitatis Hradisch 1360-1678 and Explanation by Brno City Council to Hradiště Town Council 1447-1549. From the early modern age, the fonds includes the Book of Jewish obligations 1757-1830 and the item Affairs 1847-1849. The fonds also includes documents about the Jewish religious community 1894-1925. From the associations’ agenda, these are Associations of Jewish and private attendants 1910-1912 (currently missing), Jewish women support association 1900-1925; Jewish academic association “Achwach” 1899-1926; Support association “Chevra Kadisha” 1891-1928; Jewish gymnastics club “Makabi”; Jewish association “Techelet-Lavan” 1919; building files (house of Izák Rabinek 1869). Presidium files contain the following items: smuggling of counterfeit obligations by Jews from Poland 1859; dissemination of the illegal paper “Jewish Prayer” 1860; confiscation of illegal papers from Paris with portraits of Jewish revolutionaries 1860; order to follow the Jewish trader Jos. Wolkenstein from Bučovice 1861; course of celebrations for the emperor’s silver wedding - religious services in the Jewish temple and speech by the Chairman of the Jewish Religious Community Jakob Grünwald 1879; remembrance by the Jewish Religious Community of the deceased father the emperor 1883; establishment of a foundation for poor pupils of the state German secondary school by the Jewish religious community on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the emperor’s rule 1898; instruction for the Rabbi in Uherské Hradiště Dr. Jos. Burstyn to submit records of religious education lessons. Relevant information may also be contained by the domicile agenda, records of populations of the town and foreign nationals 1850-1949 or books of people temporarily accommodated 1848-1942. The fonds also contains census records from 1869, 1880, 1890, 1900, 1910, 1921. From the period of the Holocaust, the fonds contains a list of the Jewish population 1939-1942. Attention should also be paid to Care for refugees 1938-1939.
- Archival history:
- Documents in the fonds were originally stored by the creator at the town hall and older materials suffered great losses due to fire. In 1850, materials of a judicial nature were set aside and handed over to the district courts; these were never found again. The courts were also given land registries and cases of outstanding inheritance. A regional archive was created in 1950 from the municipal archive from which charters and the most valuable municipal books were handed over to the Museum of Moravian Slovakia in Uherské Hradiště and the fonds was combined with the documents from the museum. After administrative reform in 1960, the fonds of the then State Regional Archives in Brno (now the Moravian Provincial Archives) was handed over in 1963 to the State District Archives Uherské Hradiště and in later years added to by transfers from the State Regional Archives. The fonds was last inventoried in 1982-1984, when Velkostatek Uherské Hradiště was also arranged as a sub-part of the fonds, containing the manorial agenda and the municipal office from 1850-1945 amongst other items.
- Administrative/biographical history:
-
The town of Uherské Hradiště was founded by King Ottokar II of Bohemia in 1257. Hradiště was a royal town until 1848, the smallest of six royal towns which were maintained until the early modern age. A municipality office was established in the town in 1734, the members of which had to have legal training. From 1784 this was a controlled municipal office. After 1848, the town was an independent municipality with a special standing due to its past as a royal town, i.e. this was a statutory town. This status was also preserved after the creation of Czechoslovakia until 1945, when the Municipal National Committee took over administration of the town. A Jewish Community existed in Uherské Hradiště from the 14th century, which was subordinated to the town at the end of the 15th century, although ostracised in 1514. New Jewish settlement of Uherské Hradiště was possible in the second half of the 19th century.
In 1850-1949, Uherské Hradiště was the seat of the political district, whereas in 1867-1927, this was the district Uherské Hradiště - město; in 1850-1949, it was also the seat of the judicial district.
- Access points: locations:
- Uherské Hradiště
- Access points: persons/families:
- Burstyn, Josef
- Rabinek, Izák
- Wolkenstein, Josef
- Subject terms:
- Aid and relief
- Censorship
- Census
- Education
- Education--Students
- Financial matters
- Financial matters--Debt
- Hevrah kadisha
- Jewish community
- Jewish daily life and religious practices
- Jewish political activity
- Rabbis
- Refugees
- Residency issues of Jews
- Smuggling
- Sports
- Zionism
- Zionism--Zionist organisations and parties
- System of arrangement:
- The fonds is divided into three units with separate partial inventories which have their own arrangement: I. Municipal administration until the middle of the 19th century: Charters, official books, files including assisting books, maps and plans, seal matrixes. II: Administration of municipal assets and economic administration until the middle of the 19th century: official books, assisting books, files, accounting dossiers, maps and plans, seal matrices, where applicable with internal classification according to various municipal businesses. III. Municipal office 1850-1945: official books, files including assisting books, accounting dossiers, maps and plans.
- Access, restrictions:
- The collection is only partly accessible.
- Finding aids:
- Čoupek J.-Čoupková J.: Archiv města Uherské Hradiště - Správa města do poloviny 19. století (1257) 1297-1850 (1902). Inventář, 1985, s. 131, ev. č. 349; Jašková M.: Archiv města Uherského Hradiště - Presidiální spisy 1859-1944 (1968). Katalog, 1973, s. 245, ev. č. 350; Čoupek J.: Archiv města Uherské Hradiště - Správa městských statků a správa hospodářská do poloviny 19. století 1545-1885. Inventář, 1985, s. 68, ev. č. 464; Čoupek J.-Čoupková J.: Archiv města Uherské Hradiště - Městský úřad (1831) 1850-1945 (1949). Inventář, 1985, s. 108, ev. č. 465.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Jewish Museum Prague
- Author of the description:
- JMP Survey, 2015.
