Metadata: Municipal Office of Bardejov
Collection
- Country:
- Slovakia
- Holding institution:
- State Archive in Prešov, Bardejov branch
- Holding institution (official language):
- Štátny archív v Prešove, pracovisko Archív Bardejov
- Postal address:
- Miškovského 1, Bardejov, 085 01
- Phone number:
- 00421 54 472 57 55
- Web address:
- http://www.minv.sk/?archivy
- Email:
- archiv.po.bj@minv.sk
- Reference number:
- 22752
- Title:
- Municipal Office of Bardejov
- Title (official language):
- Mestský úrad v Bardejove
- Creator/accumulator:
- Municipal Office of Bardejov
- Date(s):
- 1919/1950
- Language:
- Slovak
- Extent:
- 15.89 linear metres
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
-
The documents concern the town of Bardejov and deal with all aspects of its social development. As the town had a very large Jewish community, much information on Jews can be found.
Relevant documents include administrative books, such as minutes of council meetings from 1919-38, municipal council board meetings from 1932-38, fiscal commission meetings from 1932-37 and other committee meetings. Thematically important documents also include the register of domicile certificates from 1936-38 and various undated inventories and registers that can be found in the list of house owners and registers of inn licenses, craftsmen, traders, associations and passports.
A lot of information can be found in administrative documents such as citizenship certificates and grants of citizenship and right of domicile. Other relevant documents include a list of functionaries of the six Bardejov religious communities (1925); a list of Jewish religious communities in Slovakia (1929); certificates of Czechoslovak citizenship for Tobias Herz, Sarlota Rosenwasserová, and Jakub Schapse Weisz (1929-30); the death of Dezider Grosmann, district doctor in Bardejov (1930); a list of doctors, traders and craftsmen in Bardejov (1931); the Bardejov Zion Association's request for a permission to hold a lecture on socialism and Zionism (1931); David Seltenreich, a trader in Bardejov: transfer of lands (1933); transfer of common land into the possession of Chaim Weinberger (1933); the trade license for the Gross Brothers Brickyard (1934); support granted to the Autonomous Orthodox Jewish Religious Community in Bardejov (1937); Chevra Kadisha, paying arrears (1937); the Makabi Sports Association's request for a subsidy (1937); and the rental of an office and apartment to Markus Rosner (1938).
- Archival history:
- The fonds was taken over by the State Archives in 1955. The fonds is incomplete as the presidium files and the accounting documents are missing. The accounting books from the period until 1937 have only been preserved in fragments. After the takeover of the fonds an appraisal was carried out. Later, the predecessor of the current archives also took over the documents of accounting nature. The material was first inventoried in 1962, and re-inventoried in 1990. At present, the fonds is classified as fully inventoried.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- Under the 1922 Government Decree, the city of Bardejov lost the status of a town with the established municipality office and was ranked among large municipalities with the right to be designated as a town. As of 31 December 1922, the public administration powers of the mayor, the town police captain, and the municipality office passed to the Bardejov political district. From 1 January 1923, the state administration was dealt with by the general notary who was a civil servant obliged to attend the meetings of the municipal council and the municipal council board with the right to suspend the execution of the resolutions adopted. The self-government was carried out by the municipal office through the elected bodies (the municipal council, the municipal council board and the mayor) as well as its own bodies (the permanent and special municipal commissions, municipal officials and employees). The municipal office ceased to exist at the end of the war in 1945.
- Access points: locations:
- Bardejov
- Access points: persons/families:
- Grosmann, Dezider
- Herz, Tobias
- Rosenwasserová, Sarlota
- Rosner, Markus
- Seltenreich, David
- Weinberger, Chaim
- Weisz, Jakub Schapse
- Subject terms:
- Citizenship
- Financial matters
- Financial matters--Debt
- Health and medical matters
- Health and medical matters--Physicians and nurses
- Hevrah kadisha
- Hospitality industry
- Hospitality industry--Inns
- Jewish community
- Orthodox Judaism
- Passports and visas
- Professions
- Professions--Crafts
- Real estate
- Residency issues of Jews
- Socialism
- Sports
- Sports--Sports clubs
- Trade and commerce
- Zionism
- System of arrangement:
- The fonds contains official books, registry finding aids and files. The files include presidium and administrative documents. The administrative documents are arranged in chronological-numerical order. The arrangement follows the practice when the files were numerically registered, each of them being recorded separately, and after being dealt with the file was marked with the date of the last submission. The fonds is arranged in chronological order.
- Access, restrictions:
- Available for research.
- Finding aids:
- Šandalová, M.: Mestský úrad v Bardejove 1919 – 1945 (1950). Inventár, 1988, 200 s.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Jewish Museum Prague
- Author of the description:
- JMP/HDC Survey 2016-18
