Metadata: Komárno County I
Collection
- Country:
- Slovakia
- Holding institution:
- State Archive in Nitra
- Holding institution (official language):
- Štátny archív v Nitre
- Postal address:
- Novozámocká 273, Ivanka pri Nitre, 951 12
- Phone number:
- 00421 37 656 4263
- Web address:
- http://www.minv.sk/?archivy
- Email:
- archiv.nr@minv.sk
- Reference number:
- 7206
- Title:
- Komárno County I
- Title (official language):
- Komárňanská župa I.
- Creator/accumulator:
- County Office of Komárno
- Date(s):
- 1280/1918
- Language:
- Latin
- Hungarian
- German
- Extent:
- 405 linear metres
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- poor
- Scope and content:
-
The documents of the fonds concern the territory of Komáro County and deal with all aspects of its social development. They are not specifically focused on Jewish issues, but this kind of information from 1848-1918 can be found throughout the entire fonds which is divided into numerous sections as the Jewish population was permanently present on its territory during that period.
In the period of absolutism and according to the handling system valid in 1850-1853, Jewish issues constituted a special agenda that has not been preserved. From the Definitive Period (1854-1861) the documents have been preserved only partially. Jewish issues can be found mainly in the group labeled XI (religious affairs).
From the Provisionary Period and the Period of Dualism, the documents of the fonds are divided into two main groups: public and judicial documents. The public documents are from 1860-1918 and are divided into nine department of the fonds. The first department concerns the main county head. The most thematically usable documents are among the administrative documents from 1915-1918. They concern the activities of Jewish religious communities, Jewish schools and associations. From the previous period, they are requests from Jewish religious communities for the permission of lotteries to build a synagogue, or establishing the association basic assets, and providing financial support. The presidium and confidential documents include proposals for the distinction of representatives of Jewish religious communities. The second department of the fonds includes documents of the deputy of the county head. In 1894-1902, the files were deposited in 14 groups, the most important of which belonging to groups V (hunting right, tolls, pub licenses), VI (trades, shops, licenses), VIII (register, nurseries), X (police matters, passports), XI (citizenship, changes of surnames). Among the separate groups of the deputy of the county head, the most important group is a completely preserved inventory of the population and domestic animals from 1869. From the third department of the fonds, the County Committee and the County Municipal Committee, the thematically most important group is the Documents of the Central Election Committee which contain inventories and lists of voters from 1875-1918. Among the documents of the fourth subject group, the County Economic Committee of Labour, which has been preserved almost entirely from the period of 1916-1918, the most important are applications for the military prisoners to be assigned to work in agriculture. The fifth department of the fonds, the Counsel, is divided into three groups, out of which the thematically most important are tax documents from 1881-1913, containing information on the recovery of taxes, records of licenses and orphans' documents from 1879-1914. Among other departments of the fonds, the Archive is thematically important, which includes the collection of statutes from 1872-1918 and files from 1872-1917 which also contain information on the composition of local councils. The court documents come from 1861-1871. In 1871, there was a definitive separation of the judicial agenda from the administrative one, so this agenda is included in other fonds. Among the documents of the county court there are of particular importance documents originating from the civil law group from 1861-1871. They include property disputes, defamation disputes, disputes for non-payment of financial obligations, wills, land transfers, and the like.
- Archival history:
- The first report on the County Archives dates back to 1731. In 1816, the Archives was placed in the new building of the county house in Komárno, where it was partly damaged by fire in 1848. After the abolition of the county in 1918, most of the fonds was transferred to the Regional Archives in Bratislava in 1925. Based on the 1940 Intergovernmental Agreement, the fonds was, in 1943, returned to Komárno which had become part of Hungary in 1938 as a result of the 1st Vienna Arbitration. In 1945, the fonds was moved from Komárno before the arrival of the Soviet Army. In 1953, it was transferred, unarranged and jumbled, to the newly established Nitra Regional Archives, seated in Bojnice. Here, it was re-arranged in 1956-1958. In 1991, the fonds was partially inventoried. Due to frequent relocations, even when the fonds was already deposited in the Nitra State Archives, its arrangement was disrupted, so it was re-arranged again in 2016-2017.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- The earliest record of the Komárno Castle County Office is from 1214. After 1360, it was transformed into the Estates Court which, except for a short period during the reign of Joseph II, lasted until 1849. In its further development, two stages can be distinguished. The first relates to the period of Neo-Absolutism (1849-1860), the second to the Provisionary Period and the Period of Dualism (1860-1918). During that period, there were four districts in Komárno County (Žitný Ostrov District, Žitný Dvor District, Gesztes District and Tata District), the first two of which were located to the north and the other two to the south of the Danube. The county ceased to exist in 1918 after being divided between Hungary and the Czechoslovak Republic.
- Access points: locations:
- Komárom
- Subject terms:
- Agriculture
- Census
- Citizenship
- Education
- Education--Schools and universities
- Financial records
- Hospitality industry
- Hospitality industry--Inns
- Jewish community
- Land
- Law enforcement
- Law enforcement--Police
- Legal matters
- Military
- Orphans
- Passports and visas
- Prisoners
- Synagogues
- Trade and commerce
- Vital records
- Wills
- System of arrangement:
- Part of the Komárno County Fonds was divided into two basic chronological departments in 1849-1918. The first and older one is the period of absolutism (1849-1861), which is internally divided into three subdivisions (presidium, administration, accounting). The second one concerns the Provisionary Period and the Period of Dualism (1861-1918), being divided into two basic departments: public documents divided into nine subdivisions and judicial documents divided into two departments. The documents are arranged according to the original handling.
- Access, restrictions:
- Available for research.
- Finding aids:
- Zemeneová V., Komárňanská župa. Županské písomnosti 1861 – 1918. Inventár, 1991, 279 s., ev. č. 3124; Rukopisný zoznam k súpisu obyvateľstva Komárňanskej župy z roku 1869.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Jewish Museum Prague
- Author of the description:
- JMP/HDC Survey 2016-18