Metadata: Collection of Church Registers
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:
- 22718
- Title:
- Collection of Church Registers
- Title (official language):
- Zbierka cirkevných matrík
- Creator/accumulator:
- State Archive of Košice
- Date(s):
- 1587/1953
- Language:
- German
- Hungarian
- Extent:
- 55.75 linear metres
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
-
The Jewish registers included in the collection come from the activities of rabbinates, Jewish religious communities, or Jewish registry districts from the territory of the former Košice region in 1949-1960 within the area of the State Archives in Košice.
There are 11 registry books from the activities of the Jewish registry district based in Košice. Preserved material includes registers of births from 1851-1896, registers of marriages from 1844-1851 and 1880-1918, and registers of deaths from 1844- 1851 and 1880-1915. From Košice Country District, which included the municipalities belonging to the Jewish registry district, preserved material includes registers of births and marriages from 1886-1895 and registers of deaths from 1890-1895. The register of births from 1851-1879 also includes notes of changes of surnames.
There are 7 books stored in the archives dealing with the activities of the Jewish registry district based in Sečovce. The first one is a conscription book from 1801-1878 which contains a list of the Jewish population and serves as a register with an alphabetical enumeration. Preserved material includes registers of births from 1853-1925, registers of marriages from 1853-1942 and registers of deaths from 1853-1919.
From the activities of the Jewish registry district based in the small town of Trebišov there are 4 books stored in the archives. The registers of births from 1872-1921 have been preserved, and the registers of marriages and deaths from 1886-1895.
There are 3 registry books from the activities of the Jewish registry district based in the municipality of Veľká Ida (Košice-Country District). The register of births from 1851-1885 has been preserved, the register of marriages from 1886-1921 and the register of deaths from 1851-1885.
The fonds also includes copies of registers. Generally, common copies have been preserved including all three types of registers. The copies of registers of the Jewish registry district based in Košice come from 1886-1895, the copies from the Jewish registry district based in Sečovce come from 1876-1895, and the copies from the Jewish registry district based in the municipality of Ždaňa come from 1850-1852, 1892, and 1894-1895. The original registers of the latter Jewish registry district are not stored in the State Archives in Košice. The copy of the register of births from the Jewish registry district based in the municipality of Veľká Ida (the Košice-Country District) from 1851-1885 is inserted into the original register of births.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- The archival collection is an artificially created collection. Under the provisions of the 1949 Act, all church and Jewish registers were declared state property and, with effect from 1 January 1950, were transferred under the administration of the national committees. The registers from the territory of Košice Region in 1949-1960 were transferred in 1952 to the former Regional Archives in Košice. Some of them were submitted to the State Archives in Levoča in 1970. The registers of Jewish religious communities were originally stored in the Central Union of Jewish Religious Communities in Bratislava from where they were moved in 1979 to the State Regional Archives in Košice. The archival collection was first inventoried in 1971. After the acquisition of other registers the fonds was arranged in 1993-1994. In 2011-2012, the archival finding aid was completed and put in electronic form. At present, the archival collection is classified as fully arranged.
- System of arrangement:
- The fonds consists of 993 official books from 1587-1952, 65 registry finding aids - indexes from 1686-1951, 46 pieces of copies and 278 pieces of microfilms. The collection is divided into two sections. The first one includes originals, the second is contains copies. Both sections are arranged in alphabetical order according to the parish seats, or Jewish registry districts or rabbinates. The inventory unit consists of one book, or one fascicle of the copies.
- Access, restrictions:
- Available for research.
- Finding aids:
- Ostrolucká, M.: Zbierka cirkevných matrík 1587 – 1895 (1953), I. zväzok. Systematický katalóg, 2011, 143 s., ev. č. 4333; Ostrolucká, M.: Zbierka cirkevných matrík 1587 – 1895 (1953), II. zväzok. Systematický katalóg, 2011, s. 144 – 293, ev. č. 4334.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Jewish Museum Prague
- Author of the description:
- JMP/HDC Survey 2016-18
