Metadata: Nitra 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:
- 7209
- Title:
- Nitra County I
- Title (official language):
- Nitrianska župa I.
- Creator/accumulator:
- County Office of Nitra
- Date(s):
- 1464/1922
- Language:
- Latin
- Hungarian
- German
- Slovak
- Extent:
- 737.18 linear metres
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- poor
- Scope and content:
-
The documents of the fonds concern the territory of Nitra County dealing with all aspects of social development. As the Jewish population was continuously present on its territory during the researched period, information about Jews from the period of 1848-1918 can be found across the entire fonds which is divided into several departments.
During the period of absolutism (1849-1860), Nitra County was divided into two separate units so there have been no documents preserved in the fonds from that period. In the next part of the fonds two handling periods are distinguished: the so-called provisionary period and absolutism (1861-1918), and the period of the Czechoslovak Republic (1919-1922). From the provisionary period and the period of dualism, the documents of the fonds are divided into two main groups: public administration and judicial documents. The public administration documents come from the period of 1860-1918, being divided into ten departments. The first concerns the Principal County Head. The documents of this department are divided into five groups: confidential, war news, administrative documents, documents of the County Head of the town of Skalica, and the County Head's personal documents. Judaica can be found in the confidential documents dealing with antisemitic actions and looting in the Hlohovec district from 1914 and 1918.
The most thematically usable documents can be found in the administrative documents of the Principal County Head. Judaica from 1864-1865 are separated as a special group including e.g. lists of impoverished Jews and the election of delegates to the Jewish Congress in Pest in 1868, or information on the settling of Jews in the County from 1895.
The second department contains documents of the County Head Deputy divided into three groups. The presidium documents have only been preserved from the period of 1862-1875 and from 1882. In the large group of general documents of the County Head Deputy, there are thematically important register books (emigrants, associations, changes of surnames, etc.). The registry rules of storing files often changed. There are numerous Judaica in the files that reflect many aspects of the life of the Jewish population. The most important of them are numerous documents on Jewish associations, schools, Jewish religious communities, synagogues, relations with the majority population, and registers of births, deaths and marriages. The third group consists of separate registry files of the County Head Deputy. The most important of these is the fully preserved census of the population and domestic animals from 1869. It is arranged by districts.
Municipalities are listed in alphabetical order. Judaica can also be found in the registry of passports with the register of passports and files, and they are also likely to be found in the registry of hunting licenses.
In the fourth department, the County Board and the County Municipal Committee, among the most important groups there are the documents of the Central Electoral Committee, including permanent and temporary lists of voters from 1877-1902, and the documents of the general assembly containing its minutes from 1861 and 1867-1918 as well as the documents of the standing review committee where lists of virilists can be found.
Among the documents of the fifth department, the County Agricultural Labour Board, which have been preserved from 1916-1918, the most important ones are the registers of applications for the assignment of military prisoners to agricultural work from 1917 and the files. The sixth department, the Legal Representative, is divided into two groups, the more important one being that of the state revenue documents including files from 1903-1918. An important department is the Archives which contains, among others, a collection of statutes from 1872-1918 and files from 1872-1917 where information on the composition of local councils is also available. Another important department is the County Archives which is divided into groups, among which is the most important one is collections including the county, municipal and association statutes with an index from 1880-1923.
The other departments of the fonds include the third (the Secondary County Head Deputy), the seventh (the Principal County Doctor), the eighth (the County Orphan Court), and the tenth (the Accounting Department and the Treasury).
The court documents date from 1862-1871. In 1871, the administrative agenda was finally separated from the judicial agenda so the former is part of other fonds. This group is divided into two departments. The first is the County Head Deputy's Court which includes three books of bill of exchange protests from 1864-1870. The second one is the County Court which dealt with civil, criminal, land registry and inheritance matters, recorded in special minutes. The department contains documents from 1862-1869 divided into subject groups. The preserved and thematically important ones include undisputed matters, guardianship matters and other out-of-court issues (group II), summary repossession disputes (group III), divorces (group IV), bankruptcies (group V), and others (group VII).
Another handling period covers the period of 1919-1922 after the establishment of the Czechoslovak Republic. It is divided into three departments: presidium documents (1919-1922), personal documents of the County Head (1919) and administrative documents (1919-1922).
The presidium dealt with political, police, security, and personal matters. It includes thematically important registers (e.g. members of local councils, associations, travel, foreign and emigration passport passports, and others). The files have been preserved from 1919-1922 being chronologically and numerically arranged. The administration dealt with the public-law agenda that was a follow-up to the agenda of the County Head Deputy from the previous period. It includes books and files from 1919-1922 which are divided into 18 subject groups.
The 1919 census sheets were handled separately. Important Judaica may be found in some of them.
- Archival history:
- The Archives of Nitra County was initially placed in Nitra Castle, later in the County House in Nitra. It was not separated from the registry until 1867. After the disappearance of the original Nitra County, the fonds was taken over, in 1923, by its successor Nitra Great County. After its disappearance, the documents were administered by the Nitra District Office until the end of the Second World War. In 1952, the fonds was taken over by the newly established Nitra Regional Archives, based in Bojnice. As the original structure of the fonds was disrupted by its transfer, it was re-arranged in 1956-1959 and an internal appraisal was carried out. At that time, work began on making it available, which has been continuing to the present. As a result of frequent relocations in the period when the fonds was already deposited in the Nitra State Archives, its arrangement was partially disrupted, so after 2013 it had to be re-arranged again.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- The basis of Nitra County Castle was the Nitra Castle County Office to which some others were gradually attached by the turn of the 13th century and since then the county had its final territorial scope. At the same time, the Castle County Office was decomposing, being transformed, by the beginning of the 14th century, to an estate authority headed by the Principal County Head. This function was held, in the period of 1302-1777 exclusively by the bishops of Nitra. The seat of the County was Nitra. Except for a short period during the reign of Joseph II, the estates authority existed until 1849. In 1849-1860, it divided into two parts: Horna Nitra County and Dolna Nitra County. When the County was restored, two stages can be distinguished in its development. The first is the so-called provisionary period and the period of dualism (1860-1918), the second being the period of the Czechoslovak Republic (1919-1922). In 1872, the number of Nitra County districts was finalised - there were twelve of them (Hlohovec, Myjava, Nitra, Nové Mesto nad Váhom, Nové Zámky, Piešťany, Prievidza, Senica, Skalica, Šaľa, Topoľčany, and Žabokreky nad Nitrou). Nitra County ceased to exist on 31 December 1922 in connection with the change of the administrative division of Slovakia.
- Subject terms:
- Agriculture
- Antisemitism
- Census
- Crime
- Education
- Education--Schools and universities
- Jewish community
- Jewish-Christian relations
- Land registries
- Legal matters
- Marriage and divorce
- Migration
- Military
- Passports and visas
- Plunder
- Prisoners
- Synagogues
- Taxation
- Vital records
- Vital records--Birth records
- Vital records--Death records
- Vital records--Marriage records
- Wills
- System of arrangement:
- The fonds contains official books from 1572-1922, registry finding aids from 1531-1922, and files from 1464-1922. Part of the fonds from 1861-1922 is divided into two basic chronological departments. The older one is the so-called provisionary period and the period of dualism (1861-1918), divided into two basic departments. The first one includes public administrative documents divided into ten sections, and the second one contains judicial documents divided into two sections. The period of the Czechoslovak Republic (1919-1922) is divided into two departments (Presidium and Administration). The documents are arranged predominantly according to the original handling.
- Access, restrictions:
- Available for research.
- Finding aids:
- Zemeneová, V.: Nitrianska župa I. Hlavnožupanské písomnosti 1860 – 1918. Inventár, 1985, 484 s., ev. č. 2113; Drahošová, Š. a kol.: Nitrianska župa I. Prezidiálne a administratívne písomnosti 1919 – 1922. Inventár, 1987, 285 s., ev. č. 2349; Untermajerová, A . – Holečka, L.: Nitrianska župa I. Podžupan, pasové písomnosti 1907 – 1918 (1919). Register 1913, 417 s., ev. č.4467.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Jewish Museum Prague
- Author of the description:
- JMP/HDC Survey 2016-18