Metadata: Archive of the Town of Rousínov
Collection
- Country:
- Czechia
- Holding institution:
- State District Archives Vyškov located in Slavkov u Brna
- Holding institution (official language):
- Státní okresní archiv Vyškov se sídlem ve Slavkově u Brna
- Postal address:
- Palackého náměstí 1, Slavkov u Brna, 684 01
- Phone number:
- 00420 544 221 225
- Email:
- soka_vyskov@mza.cz
- Reference number:
- 492
- Title:
- Archive of the Town of Rousínov
- Title (official language):
- Archiv města Rousínova
- Creator/accumulator:
- Town of Rousínov
- Date(s):
- 1460/1945
- Language:
- Czech
- German
- Extent:
- 32 linear metres
- Scope and content:
- For the study of early Jewish history in Rousínov, the following files will be of particular interest: privileges for liberation from labour for the Christian community and Jewish community in 1598; books of Jewish shops; a series of resources about the Jewish community between the 16th and 19th centuries, including sources about the Jewish cemetery, a list of Jews in 1639 and more. Relevant information can also be found in land registers from the 16th to the 19th centuries. From later periods, the following files exist: documents about the relationship of the Christian political community with the Jewish political community and negotiations regarding their amalgamation in 1850-1887, a dispute between the Christian and Jewish communities in 1890, amalgamation of the Christian and Jewish communities in 1918-1920. There are also records of assisting commissions for Jews who fled from Germany in 1933, along with notices about Galicia and Bukovina refugees in 1917. From the Holocaust period, the mentions are of refugees from the border areas in 1938, identification of Germans and Jews and their property from 1943 to 1945.
- Archival history:
- The documents were stored at the town hall until they were transferred to the State District Archives in Vyškov in 1967-1969. There the fonds was added to with land registers handed over from the State Regional Archives in Brno (now the Moravian Provincial Archives) and arranged.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- The oldest mention of Rousínov dates from 1321. The market town was royal property until the mid-16th century and then in the hands of aristocrats - from 1593 it was owned by the noble house of Kaunitz. Since then it was part of the Manor in Slavkov u Brno. After 1848 it was an independent municipality. Jewish settlement is in evidence from 16th century. The Jewish political community existed there in 1848-1920, and merged with the Christian community in 1920. Rousínov belonged to the political districts of Vyškov in 1850-1855 and 1868-1949 and of Slavkov in 1855-1868 and to the judicial district of Slavkov in 1868-1949.
- Access points: locations:
- Rousínov
- System of arrangement:
- The fonds is arranged as follows: I. Charters, II. Official books, III. A. Incremental registers, B. Files 1583-1850, C. Files 1850-1945, IV. Accounting books and accounting dossiers.
- Access, restrictions:
- The collection is only partly accessible.
- Finding aids:
- Hýzlová H.-Procházková E.-Štěpánková L.: Archiv městečka Rousínova 1460 - 1945 (1953). Inventář, 1975, s. 120, ev.č. 75.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Jewish Museum Prague
- Author of the description:
- JMP Survey, 2015.
