Metadata: District Office of Topolčany
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:
- 7238
- Title:
- District Office of Topolčany
- Title (official language):
- Slúžnovský úrad v Topoľčanoch
- Creator/accumulator:
- District Office of Topolčany
- Date(s):
- 1851/1922
- Language:
- Hungarian
- Slovak
- Czech
- Extent:
- 12.30 linear metres
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
-
The documents of the fonds concern the territory that was under the authority of the District Office in Topoľčany. They refer to the entire population regardless of ethnicity or religion. Due to the existence of numerous Jewish communities in the District, plenty of Judaica can be found in the documents.
Only presidential documents from 1919-1922 have been preserved from the period of 1872-1922. The catalogued part only deals with a thematically narrow segment of the rich information contained in the documents.
Most Judaica concern measures taken by the Czechoslovak authorities in connection with the invasion of the Hungarian Red Army in Slovakia in 1919 that affected part of the Jewish population, too. These documents concern, for example, investigation of persons for agitating against Czechoslovakia (Bernard Rosenbaum from Blatné, 1919), arresting persons from Topoľčiany for a hostile attitude towards the Czechoslovak Republic and sympathising with Bolshevism (Hugo Rosenzweig and others, 1919). Judaica are also probable to be found among the requests for the release of persons from the district of Topoľčany interned in Ilava (1919), and extensive lists of politically unreliable persons from the district of Topoľčany (1919, 1920, 1921).
Other Judaica in the fonds concern security, for example, searches for several persons engaged in the Communist movement and associated with the Hungarian Soviet Republic, such as Karol Weisman from Hungary, 1920, Eugen Hamburger, the People's Commissar of the Republic of Hungary, 1920, Michal Kohn, 1921) as well as reports on subversive actions of several persons from the District, e.g. Dr. Julius Diamant from Nitrianske Žabokrieky (1920). Thematically important documents are also likely to be found among the lists of employers who did not make contracts with agricultural workers in connection with the preparation of the general strike (1922), and in the statements of the new and extinct associations in the District (1922).
- Archival history:
- The documents of the creator from 1854-1861 were originally deposited in the Archives of Nitra County. In 1952, they were taken over by the predecessor of the institution where they are now. A part of the fonds from 1872-1922 was originally taken over by the District Archives in Topolčany, from where it was also transferred, in 1962, to the predecessor of the institution where it is now. After being taken over, both parts were put into one fonds. The documents from 1861-1871 have not been preserved at all. As a result of the frequent moving of the State Archives in Nitra, the originally organised fonds got disintegrated and the bulk of it is still in that condition. In 1980, the presidential documents from 1919-1922 were arranged and a thematic catalogue was made for them which, however, only concerns documents related to the labour and Communist movements. At present, the fonds is classified as categorised and partially catalogued.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- The district offices as public administration bodies were established on the basis of the decree of the Minister of Interior No. 434 of 25 October 1849. The District Office in Topolčany was formed in 1850 and together with others it ranked among the lowest administrative-administrative units in the country. In 1854, it also gained the jurisdiction of the lowest judicial instance which was transferred to district courts in 1872 after the separation of the judiciary from the public administration. In the period of 1861-1871, its name was temporarily changed to Obdokovský District Office and its territorial authority was increased. The territorial jurisdiction of the Office was decreased in 1850-1861 and 1872-1912. In 1850-1861, the District was part of Dolná Nitra County and in 1861-1922 part of Nitra County. The District ("Služnovský") Office in Topolčany ceased to exist on 31 December 1922 and its authority was taken over by the District Office in Topolčany.
- Access points: locations:
- Blatné
- Ilava
- Nagytapolcsány
- Nitrianske Žabokrieky
- Topolcany
- Access points: persons/families:
- Diamant, Julius
- Hamburger, Eugen
- Kohn, Michal
- Rosenbaum, Bernard
- Rosenzweig, Hugo
- Weisman, Karol
- Subject terms:
- Agriculture
- Communism
- Internment
- Jewish political activity
- Law enforcement
- System of arrangement:
- The fonds contains registry finding aids from 1851-1922 and files from 1854-1922. The fonds is divided into two series. The first consists of documents from 1850-1861. It is further divided into public-administrative and judicial documents. Only a fragment of the registry finding aids has been preserved from the public-administrative documents. The judicial documents are divided into civil and criminal. This series has not been organised yet. From the documents of the second period (1872-1922), only a fragment of the registry finding aids to the administrative documents and the presidential files from 1919-1922 have been preserved. The presidential files are arranged in chronological-numerical order.
- Access, restrictions:
- Available for research.
- Finding aids:
- Untermajerová, A.: Slúžnovský úrad v Topoľčanoch. Prezidiálne písomnosti 1919 – 1922. Katalóg prameňov k dejinám robotníckeho hnutia a KSČ, 1980, 88 s., ev. č. 1601.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Jewish Museum Prague
- Author of the description:
- JMP/HDC Survey 2016-18