Metadata: Archive of the Town of Moravský Krumlov
Collection
- Country:
- Czechia
- Holding institution:
- State District Archives Znojmo
- Holding institution (official language):
- Státní okresní archiv Znojmo
- Postal address:
- Divišovo náměstí 5, Znojmo, 669 02
- Phone number:
- 00420 515 224 330
- Email:
- soka_znojmo@mza.cz
- Reference number:
- 460
- Title:
- Archive of the Town of Moravský Krumlov
- Title (official language):
- Archiv města Moravský Krumlov
- Creator/accumulator:
- Town of Moravský Krumlov
- Date(s):
- 1367/1945
- Language:
- German
- Czech
- Extent:
- 15.48 linear metres
- Scope and content:
- The fonds contains valuable resources on Jewish history, particularly from the early period: documents from 1475, 1692, land and vineyard registers from the 16th to the 18th centuries, a report about a Jewish trade with meat from 1644, various Jewish-related documents from 1639-1721, a contract for the sale of leather from 1776. Attention should also be devoted to population and housing records, domicile rights agendas, domicile certificates and police registrations from 1782-1946.
- Archival history:
- The documents were originally kept with at the town hall and numerous items were damaged by fires and war-related events. Significant losses were suffered by the fonds at the end of the Second World War - some of the documents were destroyed by Nazi officials, while others were destroyed during bombardment of the town. The fonds’ remaining documents were taken from their creator in 1959-1960 by the District Archives in Moravský Krumlov, which in 1960 merged with the State District Archives in Znojmo. Some of the documents from the magistrate period were transferred there in 1940 and 1967 from the State Archives in Brno (today the Moravian Provincial Archives). The remaining documents were taken from Moravský Krumlov in 1998. The fonds was arranged in 1997-1998 and an inventory was compiled in 1999.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- The first reliable mention of Moravský Krumlov dates from 1289, even though its beginnings are undoubtedly older. The town belonged to several noble houses after 1620, then to the Liechtenstein family until 1848. The town was the administrative centre of the manor of Moravský Krumlov, which included the Jewish communities in Moravský Krumlov and Ivančice. In 1787, a regulated municipal office was set up in Moravský Krumlov, followed by a separate urban municipality in 1848. Confirmed Jewish settlement in Moravský Krumlov dates from the 16th century and probably existed at the end of the Middle Ages. Until 1848, the administratively independent Jewish community merged with the Christian community, and both groups were then subject to the same civil administration. In 1850-1949, Moravský Krumlov was the political district seat, except during 1938-1945, when it fell under the Znojmo Landrat (district councillor). The judicial district in 1850-1949 was also seated in Moravský Krumlov.
- Access points: locations:
- Moravský Krumlov
- System of arrangement:
- The fonds is arranged as follows: I. Charters; II. Official books; III. Files (1. till 1787; 2. 1787-1850; 3. after 1850); IV. Maps and plans; V. Memoirs; VI. Other documents.
- Access, restrictions:
- The collection is only partly accessible.
- Finding aids:
- Chládková M.: Archiv města Moravský Krumlov 1367 - 1945 (1974). Inventář, 1999, s. 89, ev.č. 460.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Jewish Museum Prague
- Author of the description:
- JMP Survey, 2015.