Metadata: Archive of the Town of Znojmo
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:
- 870
- Title:
- Archive of the Town of Znojmo
- Title (official language):
- Archiv města Znojma
- Creator/accumulator:
- Town of Znojmo
- Date(s):
- 1281/1945
- Language:
- German
- Czech
- Latin
- Extent:
- 453.08 linear metres
- Scope and content:
- The Znojmo Municipal Archive is among the most important historical collections in Moravia. It contains important historical records from the medieval history of Jews in Znojmo (such as a document from 1401 about the settlement of a dispute between butchers and Jews in Znojmo; a privilegium from 1421 for the town of Znojmo for 905 florins from Jews; adjustment of Jewish interest payments from 1437 and 1453; a privilegium of King Ladislaus the Posthumous from 25 July 1454, which expelled Jews from Znojmo, and others) and from a later period mention of a Medieval Jewish cemetery (documents from 1534, 1665) and complaints about Jews from the rest of the community (1617, 1643, 1677, 1706, 1741), a form for a Jewish oath from the 18th century, and a set of seven official books with records of urban dwellers' debts owed to Jews from 1415-1438). From the early Middle Ages there are documents regarding leasing of a distillery and salpeter works to Jews in Ctidružice in 1781-1787, documents related to the Jewish holiday of Purim from 1792-1812; about a Medieval Jewish cemetery and a “Jewish Garden” established in its place from the end of the 18th century, leasing and sale arrangements for the Jewish cemetery in 1801-1842; Jewish matters in police files and documents about Jewish door-to-door trade from the early 19th century, a Jewish food tax from the 1st half of the 19th century, leasing of Jewish public canteen 1797-1833, 1816-1848 and other Jewish matters dating prior to 1848 (regulations, funerals, unlawful weddings, residence permission and tolerance tax). From the aristocratic administration of the town of Znojmo, these include documents about foundations of the Jewish community in Police in 1847. Znojmo municipal archive further contains items such as reports about antisemitic unrest in 1848-1850, documents regarding the Jewish public canteen (1861), construction files from 1857-1859 regarding Horní předměstí № 11, leasing 1849-1862, a map from 1862, and documents about both the old Jewish cemetery (a situational map from the mid 19th century) and the new Jewish cemetery 1878-1896. In the file registry from 1918-1938 there are documents about leasing of land to the Jewish religious community, and listed foundations from 1918-1938 include a foundation for establishment of the State of Israel. An undated list of members of the Jewish religious community in Znojmo is also very valuable. Attention should also be paid to population records of the town from 1896-1948, in which there is also a card file of “non-Aryans” in Znojmo (Czechs, Jews, Russians, Roma) from 1944, along with lists of homes in Znojmo and their owners from the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries, agenda pertaining to domicile rights 1857-1938, and death records 1870-1951. From the Holocaust period, the fonds contains 2 boxes of documents about Jewish property, including a list of the property items, their original owners from 1938-1945 and about the purchase of “Aryanised” Jewish property by the town of Znojmo, including documents about prior owners from 1926-1947. Relevant information may also be found in documents about refugees from Galicia and Bukovina.
- Archival history:
- The collection of the Znojmo municipal archive is one of the most valuable sets of resources both because of its significance and its scope. Documents have been collected by the town council since the Middle Ages and in the early modern era they were taken care of by registries, which by the mid 19th century developed into a fully fledged city archive. Nonetheless, many old manuscripts have been lost and many of them were returned in the 19th and 20th centuries from various archives and institutions. After 1948, a district archive was created from the municipal archive, and it later became the Znojmo State District Archives, into whose administration the entire fonds was transferred.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- The history of settlement in Znojmo dates back to the 11th century, when Znojmo was the seat of a secondary line of Přemyslid princes. The royal town itself was established in the first half of the 13th century and remained a royal town until 1848. At the end of the 18th century, a controlled municipal office was established in the town and as of 1867 Znojmo became a statutory town. Jewish settlement in the town began in the 1st half of the 14th century and the dynamic development of the community there ended with the expulsion of Jews in 1454. For the rest of the Middle Ages and for the entire early modern era, Jews were not allowed to settle in Znojmo, with only a few exceptions. The new Jewish religious community emerged in Znojmo after 1848 and was destroyed during the Holocaust. In 1850-1949 the town of Znojmo was the seat of the judicial and political district.
- Access points: locations:
- Ctidružice
- Police
- Znojmo
- Subject terms:
- Aid and relief
- Aid and relief--Food distribution
- Antisemitism
- Burial
- Cemeteries
- Expulsion
- Financial matters
- Financial matters--Moneylending
- Jewish holidays
- Jewish oath
- Land
- Law enforcement
- Law enforcement--Police
- Maps
- Marriage and divorce
- Mining
- Plunder
- Plunder--Aryanisation
- Privileges
- Real estate
- Refugees
- Residency issues of Jews
- Trade and commerce
- Trade and commerce--Alcohol trade
- Vital records
- Vital records--Death records
- Zionism
- System of arrangement:
- The fonds is divided into an older part dating until 1850 and a newer part dating from after 1850. The earlier period has been arranged into Charters, Official books and other manuscripts, Files and Accounting dossiers; the newer part has been arranged into Official books, Files, Accounting dossiers, Maps and Orientation plans and other thematic compilations (Building files, Water management materials).
- Access, restrictions:
- The collection is only partly accessible.
- Finding aids:
- Fučík, B.: Archiv města Znojma - listiny 1281 - 1862. Dílčí inventář, 1973, s. 183, ev.č. 1782; Fučík, B.: Archiv města Znojma - nejstarší knihy a rukopisy (1292) 1363 - 1786 (1817). Dílčí inventář, 1975, s. 47, ev.č. 1783; Fučík, B.: Archiv města Znojma - zlomky starých registratur, 1454 - 1850. Dílčí inventář, 1973, s. 111, ev.č. 1784; Fučík, B.-Sklenská, I.: Archiv města Znojma - matrika města Znojma, 1896 - 1948. Dílčí inventář, 1973, s. 7, ev.č. 1786; Auer, J.: Archiv města Znojma - stará spisovna do roku 1865. Katalog, 1938, 215 s, ev.č. 870; Fučík, B.: Archiv města Znojma - spisovna 1865-1918 (1938). Katalog, 1957, 24 s., ev.č. 1789; Fučík, B.: Archiv města Znojma - spisovna 1918-1938. Katalog, 1957, 66 s., ev.č. 1790; Pekárková, J.-Chládková, M.: Úřední knihy a rukopisy 1786-1945. Dílčí inventář, 2003, 62 s., ev.č. 1794; Klempová, J.: Archiv města Znojma - spisovna 1938-1945. Dílčí inv., 2003, 55 s., ev.č. 1796; Klempová, J.: Archiv města Znojma - městský stavební úřad, 1825-1945 (1958). Dílčí inv., 2003, 28 s., ev.č. 1797; Chládková, M.: Archiv města Znojma - mapy, situační a geometrické plány, (1772)1779-1938. Inventář, 2003, 57 s., ev.č. 1798; Chládková, M.: Archiv města Znojma - stavební plány a dokumentace, 1806-1945(1957). Inventář, 2003, 21 s., ev.č. 1799.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Jewish Museum Prague
- Author of the description:
- JMP Survey, 2015.