Metadata: Košice County
Collection
- Country:
- Slovakia
- Holding institution:
- State Archive in Košice
- Holding institution (official language):
- Štátny archív v Košiciach
- Postal address:
- Bačíkova 1, Košice, 041 56
- Phone number:
- 00421 55 622 24 15
- Web address:
- http://www.minv.sk/?archivy
- Email:
- archiv.ke@minv.sk
- Reference number:
- 11900
- Title:
- Košice County
- Title (official language):
- Košická župa
- Creator/accumulator:
- Košice County
- Date(s):
- 1923/1928
- Language:
- Slovak
- Extent:
- 113 linear metres
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
- The documents of the fonds contain comprehensive and detailed information on the economic, political and cultural conditions in the territory of Eastern Slovakia in 1923-1928. The fonds includes registers of associations, registers of periodicals, registers of voters of the city of Košice for the election to the Chamber of Deputies, registers of pub and tavern licenses, and registers of issued certificates. The finding aid includes quite a lot of references to the Jewish population. The most interesting ones concern the statutes of religious communities and associations, such as the approval of the statutes of the Jewish Hakvach sports club in Košice from 1923, the Chevra Kadisha in Košice, the Valalikoch association from the same year, the statutes of the Sabinov Jewish Women's Association from 1924, the statutes of the Autonomous Orthodox Jewish Religious Community in Prešov, the statutes of the Klaus Prayer Society in Michalovce of the Sephardic Jews from 1928, and others. Other documents are various reports, for example from the meetings of the Jewish Religious Community in Košice in 1924, the Zion Society in Košice from 1925, the Committee of the Jewish Neolog Community in Košice from 1926, or a report on a brawl in the Orthodox Synagogue in Košice from 1925. Other types of documents include reports and information on various Jewish congresses, conferences, lectures and meetings, such as a lecture of the Zionist Union organised in Košice. Religious communities submitted various applications, such as a request by the Košice rabbi Jakob Frankfurter for permission to organise a collection for the Talmud students from 1924, a request by the Orthodox Jewish community in Košice for permission of Sunday trading from 1925, various requests for collections, and others. Other files concern issues related to schools, worship, church taxes, and church buildings. There are also various notifications in the fonds. The finding aid mentions quite a lot of Judaica.
- Archival history:
- The seat of the County Office and its registry was on Hlavná Street in Košice. After the abolition of counties in 1928, the registries of these offices were transferred to Bratislava. In September 1952, the registry was moved to Košice into the premises of the former Regional Archives in Košice. The first arrangement and appraisal was carried out there. The documents were then stored in archive boxes. The revision of the arrangement and another appraisal were carried out in 1956 during the work on the then finding aid called The Catalog of the Labor Movement and the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia. Further appraisals were carried out in 1996 and 1998. In 1998, the current finding aid was issued.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- After the establishment of the Czechoslovak Republic, the country was divided into 21 counties in 1920. Instead of the 16 historic counties in the former Hungary, 6 new ones were created. Košice County began to function on 1 January 1923. The counties performed the public administration at the middle level. They supervised the implementation of laws and regulations and enforced the government policies on their territories. District offices were subject to them. The county was headed by the head appointed by the government. As a result of centralisation efforts, the county offices in Slovakia were abolished in 1928, and their jurisdiction was transferred to the Regional Office in Bratislava.
- Access points: locations:
- Košice
- Michalovce
- Prešov
- Sabinov
- Access points: persons/families:
- Frankfurter
- System of arrangement:
- The fonds includes official books, registry finding aids and files. The finding aid divides the material into self-government and state administration. The state administration documents are divided into eight county series, the ninth group being other files. Within the series, the documents are further sub-divided into registry finding aids and files.
- Access, restrictions:
- Available for research.
- Finding aids:
- Ružička, Ladislav – Ostrolucká, Milena – Dulovič, Erik – Duleba, Ján: Košická župa 1923 – 1928, I. – II. zväzok. Inventár, Košice, 1998, ev. č. 3009 – I. zväzok, 3010 – II. zväzok.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Jewish Museum Prague
- Author of the description:
- JMP/HDC Survey 2016-18