Metadata: Archive of the Town of Vyškov
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:
- 717
- Title:
- Archive of the Town of Vyškov
- Title (official language):
- Archiv města Vyškova
- Creator/accumulator:
- Town of Vyškov
- Date(s):
- 1585/1945
- Language:
- German
- Czech
- Extent:
- 131.68 linear metres
- Scope and content:
- This is a rich fonds although the Jewish content is rather marginal. The following files will be of particular interest: an interrogation of a Jew from Rousínov in 1676; acceptance of a Jewish merchant into the town in 1679; the arrest of two Jews from the second half of the 18th century; a Jewish woman’s conversion in 1792; a Jewish tax and Jewish tandem duty 1763-1829; a craft code for Jews 1753; matters pertaining to Jews and Jewish communities before 1850; a conflict with Jews from Rousínov 1838-1849; records of the purchase of a synagogue and its modification into a museum and library in 1929-1935; a file on expulsion of Jewish woman Marta Weigl in 1939; confirmation of the absence of Jews in the management of the District Health Insurance Office in 1940. Attention should also be paid to written documents and population records, municipal elections, the agenda of population records, including those from 1850-1945.
- Archival history:
- The documents were originally kept with their creator. After the Second World War a municipal archivist was appointed. In 1960, the municipal archive became part of the newly established Vyškov State District Archives located in Slavkov, where this fonds was eventually arranged. The fonds was first arranged in 1980 and rearranged in 1997.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- The first mention of Vyškov dates from the 12th century. In the 13th century it became a town; from then until 1848 (with some gaps in the Middle Ages) it was property of the Bishop of Olomouc. Vyškov was the seat and administrative centre of a manor of the same name. Besides individuals or individual families, no continuous Jewish settlement appeared in the manor in the early modern period. Jews began settling in the town only after 1848. In 1850-1949, Vyškov was the seat of the political and judicial district.
- Access points: persons/families:
- Weigl, Marta
- System of arrangement:
- The fonds is divided into two time periods: 1) before 1850: I. Charters, II. Official books, III. Assisting books and files, IV. Accounting books and files; V. Printed materials. 2) period of 1850-1949: I. Official books, II. Files - assisting books, files, III. Accounting dossiers - accounting books, accounting files, IV. Other material.
- Access, restrictions:
- The collection is only partly accessible.
- Finding aids:
- Klučková M.: Archiv města Vyškova I, 1522 - 1850 (1882). Inventář, 2000, s. 213, ev.č. 523.; Zemánková M.: Archiv města Vyškov II, (1830) 1850 - 1945 (1949). Inventář, 2010, s. 173, ev.č. 762.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Jewish Museum Prague
- Author of the description:
- JMP Survey, 2015.