Metadata: District Notary Office of Michal nad Žitavou
Collection
- Country:
- Slovakia
- Holding institution:
- State archive in Nitra, Nové Zámky branch
- Holding institution (official language):
- Štátny archív v Nitre, pracovisko Archív Nové Zámky
- Postal address:
- Podzámska 25, Nové Zámky, 940 61
- Phone number:
- 00421 35 642 03 98
- Web address:
- http://www.minv.sk/?archivy
- Email:
- archiv.nr.nz@minv.sk
- Reference number:
- 8633
- Title:
- District Notary Office of Michal nad Žitavou
- Title (official language):
- Obvodný notársky úrad v Michale nad Žitavou
- Creator/accumulator:
- District Notary Office of Michal nad Žitavou
- Date(s):
- 1923/1945
- Language:
- Hungarian
- Slovak
- Extent:
- 0.45 linear metres
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
- The documents of the fonds concern municipalities within the District Notary Office in Michal nad Žitavou and deal with all aspects of their social development. Due to the continuous presence of a Jewish population in the municipalities of the District of the Notary Office, Judaica are presumed to be found especially in the preserved fragments of the minutes of the meetings of the local councils from 1925-1937. The minutes of the meetings of the local councils from Michal nad Žitavou have been preserved from 1925-1931, and from the municipality of Kmeťovo from 1937. The minutes of the municipal board from Kmeťovo have also been preserved from 1937. The administrative documents, which have been preserved from 1923-1945, can also be used to a certain extent. However, these are exclusively register statements.
- Archival history:
- It was not known for a long time after the World War II where the fonds was stored. In 1967, a fragment of the preserved fonds was found among the files of the Local National Committee in Michal nad Žitavou. In 1968, it was taken over by the District Archives in Nové Zámky, the predecessor of the institution where the fonds is stored now. In the same year, the fonds was completely inventoried.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- Notary offices evolved from the position of the notary who was originally a non-public contractual person. From the beginning of the 1870s, the position of the local, or district notary was defined by the law. The notaries were regular members of the local councils with the right to vote, keeping all the written agenda for them as a self-government official. The authority of the office covered the municipalities of Michal nad Žitavou, Kmeťovo, and also Malá Maňa and Velká Maňa that currently constitute the municipality of Maňa. The oldest documents in the fonds have been preserved from the period after 1920 when the notary became a civil servant with the right to veto the resolutions of the local council. The Notary Office in Michal nad Žitavou was active even after the annexation by Hungary after the 1st Vienna Arbitration in November 1938, but ceased to exist in 1945. The existence of notary offices was officially ended by the Regulation of the Slovak National Council of 7 April 1945.
- Access points: locations:
- Kmeťovo
- Michal nad Žitavou
- Subject terms:
- Vital records
- System of arrangement:
- The fragmentarily preserved fonds includes 8 official books from 1929-1939 and files from 1923-1945. It is arranged according to the original chronological-numerical system. The inventory unit for the administrative files and the accounting material is one year of the relevant series.
- Access, restrictions:
- Available for research.
- Finding aids:
- Turan, J.: Obvodné notárske úrady a notárske úrady Bánov, Černík, Komjatice, Kostolný Sek, Michal nad Žitavou, Milanovce, Palárikovo, Šurany, Tvrdošovce 1810 – 1946. Združený inventár, 1968, 183 s., ev. č. 3756.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Jewish Museum Prague
- Author of the description:
- JMP/HDC Survey 2016-18