Metadata: Bratislava County I
Collection
- Country:
- Slovakia
- Holding institution:
- State Archive in Bratislava
- Holding institution (official language):
- Štátny archív v Bratislave
- Postal address:
- Križkova 7, Bratislava 1, 811 04
- Phone number:
- 00421 25 728 32 66
- Web address:
- http://www.minv.sk/?archivy
- Email:
- archiv.ba@minv.sk
- Reference number:
- 17479
- Title:
- Bratislava County I
- Title (official language):
- Bratislavská župa I
- Creator/accumulator:
- Bratislava County I
- Date(s):
- 1398/1922
- Language:
- Latin
- Hungarian
- German
- Slovak
- Czech
- Extent:
- 640.07 linear metres
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
-
The documents of the fonds concern the territory which was administered by Bratislava County. They refer to the entire population regardless of ethnicity or religion. Numerous Judaica can be found in the documents.
Documents from 1848-1849 are found in the oldest series. There is a very important list of Jews from 1848 added to the so-called “congregational documents” as a separate group. Other groups of documents are of different origins but they were processed as a whole (“permanent deputation”) and all come from the period of the Hungarian Revolution of 1848-1849. They are the documents of the Particular Congregation of Bratislava County, the Committees (the Committee of Homeland Defense, the County Committee, and the Standing Committee), both signed and unsigned correspondence of the Deputy County Head, and court files. There are plenty of Judaica concerning trade, resettlement, census, lists, complaints, protection, jurisdiction, detention, but also specific individuals, etc.
The series of the period of Absolutism consists of the documents of the government commissioner and the county head. They are divided into presidential and administrative files. Presidential files have been preserved incompletely and with gaps from the period of 1851-1860. Thematically important are especially the files on the alleged Jewish ritual murder (1854) and the lists of rabbis (1857). Judaica are likely to be found in the list of issued passports (1852-1860), or among applications for them. Administrative files have been preserved from the period of 1849-1861. They are stored by years and numbers until 1851. From that period, it is possible to make use of reports on the attendance of Jewish school children (1851), an application of the Jewish religious community for permission to organise an assembly (1851), but also the list of houses, men, women and families in individual districts by religion (1850). In the period of 1852-1861, the files were stored in 22 registry groups. Most Judaica can be found in the groups of school and church affairs (No. XVI), which include, for example, numerous lists of Jewish religious communities with the number of inhabitants, issues of keeping Jewish registers, reports on Jewish schools, lists of synagogues and prayer houses, and information on their construction. Judaica are also present in the group of judicial matters (No. XII), e.g. in the list of persons punished for anti-Jewish riots in 1848, or in various disputes with Jews. The concurrence group (No. II) is also relevant as it includes applications for allocation of official posts. Information about Jews is also very likely to be found in other groups (especially passports, moving of the population, trade issues, military affairs, etc.).
The series of 1861-1867 is divided into administrative and judicial documents. Among the administrative documents, it is possible to make use of the presidential files of the principal county head from 1862-1867 (for example, questions of political life, statutes of associations, etc.) as well as the administrative documents of the deputy county head (1861-1867) which include, among others, documents on issuing domicile certificates or passports. Within the incompletely preserved judicial documents one can use those concerning civil matters (1862-1869), criminal matters (1861-1868), orphan matters (1869), and files from 1869-1871.
The fourth series of the fonds is very large and divided into several sub-series and groups. The first is the sub-series of the principal county head which is divided into two parts. The files of confidential matters have been preserved with gaps from 1875-1913. Numerous Judaica concern the activities of Jewish religious communities, schools, companies or individuals, but also reflect manifestations of antisemitism (e.g. books). Much more extensive are the general documents from 1868-1918 which include mainly school matters (annual reports and financial support records), lists of virilists, statistics, documents on the moving of the population, and others.
The sub-series of the deputy county head is divided into three groups of documents: presidential (1872-1881), general (1868-1918), and offences (1891-1918). The highest number of Judaica can be found among the general documents, such as registers (e.g. passports from 1909-1914). The files provide rich information on the antisemitism at the time (anti-Jewish magazines, movements, riots, looting) and the life of Jewish communities (Jewish religious communities, companies of Jewish owners, matrices, register districts, etc.). To a certain extent, one can also use documents concerning offences, emigration and trades.
Another extensive sub-series is the municipal committee. It includes, in particular, minutes of the municipal meetings (1867-1918) and files (1867-1902). Judaica mainly concern various activities of Jewish religious communities (granting financial support, permitting collections, transferring land for the construction purposes), or approving memoranda of other counties on matters relating to Jews.
Other sub-series include the central electoral committee (e.g. election files from 1865-1919), the legal counsel (divided into public administration, guardianship, and tax matters from 1903-1918), deputy legal counsel (especially orphan files from 1882-1902), the principal county physician (files from 1867-1898, quarterly reports of district physicians, in particular), the county orphan court, the county police, and the archives. The last group includes various documents among which the census of 1869 by individual municipalities is of particular importance, where one can find complete data on the population. The statutes of associations are also important.
The fifth series is the county office during the period of the Czechoslovak Republic (1919-1920) which is divided into four groups. Two of them are of particular importance: the presidium and the administration, their files being preserved from 1919-1922. Judaica in the presidential files are mostly of political nature and concern the activities of Jewish political parties, the alleged anti-Slovak and subversive activities of Jews, the banishment of Jews without Czechoslovak nationality, and matters of Jews from Poland and Galicia. In the administration, one can use, in addition to the extensive files, register books - protocols of passports, travel permits for tradesmen, and statutes of associations.
- Archival history:
- The County archives had a permanent seat only after the construction of the county house at the end of the 18th century. Frequent moving and two fires (1800, 1853) have significantly damaged the fonds. After the demise of Bratislava County (1922), the fonds was gradually taken over by several institutions (County Archives, Land Archives, Slovak Central Archives), and the arrangement of the documents was disrupted. In 1954, the fonds was taken over by the predecessor of the institution where it is now. Since 1955, it had been gradually arranged and inventoried, and several finding aids were created for it. A smaller number of acquisitions were received by the Archives in 1984, 1993, 2005 and 2008. At present, the fonds is classified as partly catalogued and partly inventoried.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- Bratislava County evolved from the Castle County established as early as the 11th century and situated on the western border of Hungary. The transition to the County of Estates was slower than elsewhere and dates back to the early 14th century. At that time, its territory was stabilised, too, and except for the temporary inclusion as a part of Horná Nitra County (1851-1860) it remained unchanged until 1922. At the time of the County of Estates, it exercised self-governing and judicial authorities. The County of Estates ceased to exist in 1849. The judicial powers were exercised temporarily in the period 1861-1871. The seat of the County was Bratislava. Its territory was divided from the beginning into smaller units, later districts, the number of which varied. In the final period of its existence, after the Austro-Hungarian settlement, there were seven principal districts whose seats were in Bratislava, Dunajská Streda, Galanta, Malacky, Senec, Šamorín and Trnava. Bratislava County ceased to exist on 31 December 1922.
- Access points: locations:
- Bratislava
- Subject terms:
- Antisemitism
- Antisemitism--Antisemitic publications
- Blood libel
- Census
- Correspondence
- Crime
- Education
- Education--Schools and universities
- Education--Students
- Financial records
- Health and medical matters
- Jewish community
- Jewish political activity
- Law enforcement
- Law enforcement--Police
- Legal matters
- Migration
- Military
- Orphans
- Passports and visas
- Plunder
- Pogroms
- Rabbis
- Residency issues of Jews
- Statistics
- Synagogues
- Taxation
- Trade and commerce
- System of arrangement:
- The fonds contains 68 documents until 1526, 52 documents after 1526, 454 official books from 1579-1922, registry finding aids, 4766 boxes, 110 fascicles and 24 parcels of files from 1539-1922. The fonds is very large and internally richly structured. It is divided into five basic departments: the period of Estates (until 1849), the period of absolutism (1849-1861), the period from the October Decree to the Austro-Hungarian settlement (1861-1867), the period to the establishment of the Czechoslovak Republic (1867-1918), and the period of the county office during the period of the Czechoslovak Republic (1919-1922). The principles of arrangement differ for each department and sub-department.
- Access, restrictions:
- Available for research.
- Finding aids:
- Hauptvogel, P. – Watzka, J.: Župa Bratislavská I 1396 – 1922. Podžupan 1868 – 1918. Inventár, 1963, 155 s., ev. č. 79; Kamencová, L.: Župa Bratislavská I. Dôverné spisy hlavného župana 1875 – 1913. Katalóg, 1967, 127 s., ev. č. 715; Ripková, G.: Župa Bratislavská I. Prezidiálne spisy hlavného župana 1919 – 1922. Katalóg, 1967, 532 s., ev. č. 716; Fabián, J.: Župa Bratislavská I. Podžupanské spisy 1914 – 1918. I. zväzok, diel 1 – 2. Katalóg, 1986, 431 s., ev. č. 2200a, 2200b; Fabián, J.: Župa Bratislavská I 1396 – 1922. Zápisnice municipálneho výboru 1867 – 1918. Katalóg, I. zväzok 1867 – 1871, 279 s., ev. č. 1248, II. zväzok, 1. časť 1872 – 1879, bez č. s., ev. č. 2874, II. zväzok, 2. časť 1872 – 1879, bez č. s., ev. č. 2875, III. zväzok 1880 – 1883, 237 s., ev. č. 1827a, IV. zväzok 1884 – 1887, 287 s., ev. č. 1827b, V. zväzok 1888 – 1895, bez č. s., ev. č. 2808, VI. zväzok 1896 – 1898, bez č. s., ev. č. 2873, VIII. zväzok 1903 – 1904, 99 s., ev. č. 3897, IX. zväzok 1905 – 1908, 267 s., ev. č. 2199, X. zväzok 1909, 112 s., ev. č. 4392, XI. zväzok 1910 – 1912, bez ev. č., XIII. zväzok 1915 – 1916, bez č. s., ev. č. 2199, XIV. zväzok 1917 – 1918, 172 s., ev. č. 5615; Fabián, J. – Nováková, V.: Župa Bratislavská I 1396 – 1922. Zápisnice municipálneho výboru 1867 – 1918. VII. zväzok 1899 – 1902. Katalóg, 2009, 236 s., ev. č. 4036; Fabián, J. – Szöcsová, L.: Župa Bratislavská I 1396 – 1922. Zápisnice municipálneho výboru 1867 – 1918. XII. zväzok 1913 – 1914. Katalóg, 2014, ev. č. 4590; Huttová, M.: Permanentná deputácia Bratislavskej župy 1848 – 1849. Katalóg, 1994, 433 s., ev. č. 2823; Trojnová, M.: Bratislavská župa I 1396 – 1922. Vládny komisár 1849 – 1860. Inventár, 1973, 50 s., bez ev. č.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Jewish Museum Prague
- Author of the description:
- JMP/HDC Survey 2016-18