Metadata: Spiš County
Collection
- Country:
- Slovakia
- Holding institution:
- Spiš archive in Levoča
- Holding institution (official language):
- Spišský archív v Levoči
- Postal address:
- Nám. Majstra Pavla 7, Levoča, 05445
- Phone number:
- 00421 53 451 24 24
- Web address:
- http://www.minv.sk/?archivy
- Email:
- archiv.po.sal@minv.sk
- Reference number:
- 24367
- Title:
- Spiš County
- Title (official language):
- Spišská župa
- Creator/accumulator:
- Spiš County
- Date(s):
- 1314/1922
- Language:
- Latin
- German
- Hungarian
- Slovak
- Extent:
- 695.3 linear metres
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- poor
- Scope and content:
- The fonds contains documents from the activities of the regional (later county) government in the historical territory of Spiš. The following groups of documents are relevant: 2. passports, 8. population census, 9. register statements; the agenda of the deputy county head: administrative files; and judicial documents, in particular civil disputes. Several files concern Jews in Huncovce, where there was a large Jewish community in the 19th century, and the local Yeshiva. Significant information on Jews can be found especially in the 1869 population register. Attention should also be paid to the following documents: records of Jewish communities, boards, rabbis and kosher butchers (1853); admission of Jews to the trade committee (1854); the official expulsion of a Jew from Huncovce (1856); a street sale permit for a Jew from Huncovce (1856); Filip Winter's application for domicile in Levoča (1856); an inn in Kežmarok rented by a Jew (1858); adoption of Heršel Hartmann as a citizen of Levoča (1859); rentals and trades by Jews in Spiš towns (1859-60); statistical reports on Jews in Huncovce (1852-53); the Jewish school in Huncovce (1853); a report on the condition of post-1850 Jewish education; statements of Jewish schools in the county (1860); Chevra Kadisha in Nedec (1894) and Betlianovce (1900); copies of registers of births, deaths and marriages (1868-95); K. Wein's textile factory in Kežmarok, (1915-17); lists of virilists (1919); Sakász Chevra and the Tiferez Bachurim youth association in Kežmarok (1919); and the confiscation of the rooms of the Jewish prayer house in Spišská Nová Ves (1922).
- Archival history:
- The documents of the County Office were continuously transferred to the County Archives. The County Office adapted the house adjacent to the County house for the needs of the archives in 1911. In 1919, the archives were taken over by the Czechoslovak state. During the existence of the Czechoslovak Republic, the former County Archives was subject to the District Office in Levoča, after 1945 to the District National Committee, and in 1954 it was incorporated into the State Archives. The fonds began to be processed in 1956, being inventoried in 1964.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- The Spiš "Stolica" (later County) came to being as a self-governing institution of the estates, administering the Spiš territory. In the 16th century, the "Stolica" was divided into districts within the process of tax determining and collecting. The seat was in Levoča. The "Stolica" was engaged in administrative and judicial activities. In 1849-1860, the county administration was governed by the government-appointed government commissioner, later the county head. After 1860, some functions of self-government were restored. After 1867, the county became a body of the executive power, and the heads were appointed, not elected. Judiciary was withdrawn from the counties in 1872. After 1918, the county existed with small changes of competencies until the end of 1922.
- Access points: locations:
- Huncovce
- Kežmarok
- Levoča
- Nedec
- Spišská Nová Ves
- Access points: persons/families:
- Hartmann, Heršel
- Wein, K
- Winter, Filip
- Subject terms:
- Census
- Education
- Education--Schools and universities
- Education--Yeshivot
- Expulsion
- Hevrah kadisha
- Hospitality industry
- Hospitality industry--Inns
- Jewish community records
- Legal matters
- Passports and visas
- Rabbis
- Residency issues of Jews
- Ritual slaughter
- Ritual slaughter--Butchers
- Statistics
- Taxation
- Trade and commerce
- Trade and commerce--Clothing and textile trade
- Vital records
- Vital records--Birth records
- Vital records--Death records
- Vital records--Marriage records
- System of arrangement:
- The fonds has been arranged in chronological order according to the basic periods, within which there is a division by subject groups, respecting the original system of arrangement.
- Access, restrictions:
- Available for research.
- Finding aids:
- Liptáková, H.: Spišská župa (1836) 1849 – 1860 (1862). Čiastkový inventár, Levoča 2002, 211 s.; Chalupecký, I. - Liščáková, A.: Župa Spišská 1860 – 1922. Inventár, Levoča, 1969, 485 s.; Liščáková, A.: Spišská župa, robotnícke hnutie a KSČ, 1919 – 1922. Katalóg, Levoča, 1964.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Jewish Museum Prague
- Author of the description:
- JMP/HDC Survey 2016-18
