Metadata: Police Captain’s Office of the City of Košice
Collection
- Country:
- Slovakia
- Holding institution:
- Košice City Archive
- Holding institution (official language):
- Archív mesta Košice
- Postal address:
- Kováčska 20, Košice, 040 01
- Phone number:
- 00421 55 622 18 25
- Web address:
- http://www.minv.sk/?archivy
- Email:
- archiv@kosice.sk
- Reference number:
- 26755
- Title:
- Police Captain’s Office of the City of Košice
- Title (official language):
- Policajný kapitanát mesta Košice
- Creator/accumulator:
- Police Captain’s Office of the City of Košice
- Date(s):
- 1830/1922
- Language:
- Hungarian
- German
- Latin
- Slovak
- Czech
- Extent:
- 41.5 linear metres
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
- This extensive fonds contains a great deal of information about Jews from various areas of public and community life. Jews are mentioned in the following documents: minutes of the investigation of the proponents of the anti-Semitic movement (1882); contract between the Chevra Kadisha in Košice and the city of Košice about the allocation of an area for the Jewish cemetery (1897); permit for two Jewish teachers to raise Jewish children (1864); request of the Land Labour Treasury to impose an obligation on the Chevra Kadisha to insure its employees (1913); anti-riot measures against waiters in Jewish inns (1870); request of Hungarian Jewish cantors and singers to give a performance in the city theatre (1917); report on a suicide in the Jewish ritual bath in Košice (1894); request by the chief rabbi of the Jewish religious community in Košice for the release of Jewish prisoners so that they could take part in worship during the holidays (1894, 1897); report on the hygienic condition of the Jewish ritual baths in Košice (1914); prohibition of spreading antisemitic leaflets (1876); permit to build a synagogue in Košice (1866); order to observe hygienic principles when performing circumcision (1899); building permit for the Orthodox Jewish religious community in Košice (1900); announcement about the election of the new rabbi (1879); report about a fire in the synagogue (1883); a private teacher's request for a permission to found a Jewish school (1865).
- Archival history:
- The fonds was originally deposited in the town hall building. As early as the 1880s some of the documents are presumed to have been regularly handed over to the City Archives. In 1919, the documents from 1903-1910 were probably destroyed by the Czechoslovak army. In 1951, the registry was in a complete state of disorganisation. That year, work was started on its basic organisation and internal appraisal. In the mid-1970s, a selective inventory was created. The definitive inventory was created in 2013.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- During the revolutionary period of 1848-1849, one of the members of the city council board served as the police captain. Since 1851, for more than ten years, the imperial police had been operating in Košice instead of the municipal police, dealing not only with the public security but also the political administration. In 1859-1867, the police ministry exercised the control of the police. In 1861, the police office of the municipal self-government was established in Košice. In 1866-1867, the safety in the city definitively became the domain of the municipality office. Since 1870, the city police captain's office or the local police department had worked as separate executive parts of the municipality office as well as the first-instance trade authority. The police captain was a member of the city council, being second only to the mayor, and an executive authority of the administration, the mayor's office and the city council. A new organisational statute was adopted in 1892. The city police was made a state authority after the establishment of Czechoslovakia and the police headquarters was established in 1920.
- Access points: locations:
- Košice
- Subject terms:
- Antisemitism
- Antisemitism--Antisemitic propaganda
- Cemeteries
- Circumcision
- Education
- Education--Schools and universities
- Education--Teachers and professors
- Hazanim
- Health and medical matters
- Hevrah kadisha
- Hospitality industry
- Hospitality industry--Inns
- Jewish community
- Jewish holidays
- Mikveh
- Orthodox Judaism
- Prisoners
- Rabbis
- Suicide
- Synagogues
- System of arrangement:
- The fonds consists of books and files. The official books are divided into four groups: internal books (A), registers of and reports on offences (B), registers of financial penalties (C) and various register books (D). The files are divided into finding aids, files, and collections which consist of notices and reports of the police captain's office. The third part of the subdivision includes the accounting books. The files are arranged n chronological-numerical order.
- Access, restrictions:
- Available for research.
- Finding aids:
- Szeghy, G.: Policajný kapitanát mesta Košice (1830) 1861 – 1922. Inventár, Košice 2013.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Jewish Museum Prague
- Author of the description:
- JMP/HDC Survey 2016-18