Metadata: District Court of Zlaté Moravce
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:
- 9338
- Title:
- District Court of Zlaté Moravce
- Title (official language):
- Okresný súd v Zlatých Moravciach
- Creator/accumulator:
- District Court of Zlaté Moravce
- Date(s):
- 1875/1951
- Language:
- Hungarian
- Slovak
- Czech
- Extent:
- 52.60 linear metres
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
-
The documents concern a territory within the jurisdiction of the district court in Zlaté Moravce and refer to the whole population regardless of ethnicity or religion. There are numerous items of Jewish interest in the documents.
Within the registry finding aids, it is possible to use mainly the registers of arrests from 1888-1920.
Presidential files have been preserved from 1898-1949. Most contain directives and minutes from the revisions of the district court, including registration cards of persons whose sentences were pardoned (1916) and various employment matters, including personnel files from 1918-38, which also continue in the following years, and registration cards of prisoners (1927).
General files have been preserved from 1898-1950. They are not divided into handling periods or groups, but they are arranged by groups, and chronologically within these groups. Information on Jews is likely to be found in each of them.
Documents on crimes (marked B, T) concern matters including serious bodily harm, public disturbance, usury, overcharging, theft, acts of violence, offences against religion, arson and defamation from 1898-1948. In 1918 there also appear offences against the state.
Other groups of criminal documents with similar content are marked Tm, Ml, Tv and Pk and come from 1924-30, 1931-38 and 1937.
Several items of Jewish interest can be found in files concerning seizures of property from 1924-1933, marked E. They mainly concern real estate auctions and debt recovery. Jews are mentioned in these documents as debtors (e.g. Leopold Rosezweig, 1929), plaintiffs (Karol Einberg's Corporation from Zlaté Moravce, 1932), and lawyers (Mor Grosz from Nitra, 1933).
General civil law matters are divided into two sets. The first includes documents marked Nc I from 1924-36, mainly concerning land-book affairs and labour relations and consisting largely of employees' testimonies and appeals, most often concerning large estates. The second set is marked Nc II, dates from 1924-31 and principally contains files concerning evictions from apartments.
General documents include four large groups of judicial agendas. Although not specified in the finding aid, these contain much Jewish-related material. One group concerns the estates of the deceased from 1898-1936. These were marked O or PK during the first two handling periods and D during the third (1924-1933). Documents related to the estates of the deceased 1923-36, marked Por, are also grouped there.
Documents concerning disputes about various issues (1898-1933) are marked Sp, P and C in the first three handling periods and mainly concern disputes over real estate, child support payments, paternity determination, widows' rights and disputes about moving out from apartments. There are also numerous thematically important documents concerning decisions about land register entries based on inheritance, sale, purchase, and lien from 1915-33, marked Čd. Relevant testimonies from 1875 and 1887-1935 are marked T.
- Archival history:
- The fonds has suffered great losses in the past. The files from the first three handling periods are not available, only the registry finding aids have been preserved for these parts of the fonds. The files have only been preserved from the third handling period (since 1924). The presidential files are available from 1936 and the general ones from the period after 1924. The fonds was taken over, in 1956-1958, by the predecessor of the institution where it is now. The fonds is classified as partially inventoried.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- The District Court in Zlaté Moravce was established on 1 January 1872 as the first instance court in civil and criminal matters. First, it had jurisdiction over all municipalities of the Zlaté Moravce District. There were frequent changes in its territorial competence which took place in 1878, 1885 and 1926. Until 1920, the District Court was part of the circuit of the Regional Court in Zlaté Moravce. After its abolition it was included in the circuit of the Regional Court in Nitra. It ceased to exist on 30 June 1960.
- Access points: locations:
- Zlaté Moravce
- Access points: persons/families:
- Einberg, Karol
- Gorsz, Mor
- Rosezweig, Leopold
- Subject terms:
- Crime
- Land registries
- Legal matters
- Marriage and divorce
- Prisoners
- Real estate
- Wills
- System of arrangement:
- The fonds contains official books from 1885-1950, registry finding aids from 1875-1951, and files from 1875-1950. The arrangement of the preserved part of the fonds does not respect the division of the file handling of general documents into three periods (1872-1914, 1914-1923, and 1924-1938). The files are arranged in separate indefinite groups, and within them they are arranged in chronological-numerical order.
- Access, restrictions:
- Available for research.
- Finding aids:
- Mravíková, T.: Okresné súdy Nitra, Vráble a Zlaté Moravce. Inventár, 1967, 126 s., ev. č. 1228.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Jewish Museum Prague
- Author of the description:
- JMP/HDC Survey 2016-18