Metadata: District Office of Kežmarok
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:
- 24373
- Title:
- District Office of Kežmarok
- Title (official language):
- Slúžnovský úrad v Kežmarku
- Creator/accumulator:
- District Office of Kežmarok
- Date(s):
- 1814/1860
- Language:
- German
- Hungarian
- Slovak
- Extent:
- 18.25 linear metres
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
- The fonds contains documents of the political administration of the Kežmarok District. Jews are mentioned in administrative and judicial files. Several files concern the Jews in Huncovce, which was the location of the Yeshiva and which had a large Jewish community in the 19th century. Relevant documents are: election of the Spiš Jewish community representative; restriction of Jews in Ľubica; establishment of the school in Huncovce (1851-52); statement of financial needs of the Jewish school in Huncovce (1853); report from a meeting of Jewish community representatives (1853); school property for Spiš Jewish communities (1854); disputes among Jews in Huncovce synagogue (1854); trade licensing (1854-60); complaints about the economic management of the Jewish community in Huncovce (1854); the Jewish school in Huncovce: statutes and school report; permission to worship in Kežmarok and Slovenská Ves (1856); construction of the synagogue in Jaklovce (1859); renting royal rights to Jews in Spišská Belá and Veľký Slavkov (1860); series of passports, constructions and trades (1850-60).
- Archival history:
- The fonds only includes files from 1850-1860 which were transferred to the County Archives in 1861. Documents from 1894-1922 have not been preserved. The documents of the fonds were categorised and arranged in 1960-1962, and inventoried in 1995-1996.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- The district offices (Hungarian: szolgabírói hivatal) were established in 1849 as temporary public administration offices. A reorganisation took place in 1850, and another one in 1853. The district office was the lowest political-administrative unit within the county and at the same time the first instance court. It was headed by the chief district officer, who was assisted by one or two officers, with other staff being in the office, too. The judicial agenda was withdrawn and transferred to district courts in 1871. The office monitored how laws were observed, conducted the agenda of taxes, charges, military affairs, elections, and was the industrial supervisory body of the first instance. In 1860-1872 it was abolished, its authority being transferred to the Podtatranský District Office. The District Office in Kežmarok was renewed in 1894. After the establishment of the Czechoslovak Republic, the structure of the Office remained unchanged. The district offices were abolished in 1922.
- Access points: locations:
- Huncovce
- Jaklovce
- Kežmarok
- Ľubica
- Slovenská Ves
- Spišská Belá
- Veľký Slavkov
- System of arrangement:
- The original arrangement was retained during processing. The fonds is divided into public administration files and court files. The administrative files are chronologically arranged.
- Access, restrictions:
- Available for research.
- Finding aids:
- Liptáková, H.: Slúžnovský úrad v Kežmarku, (1814) 1850 – 1860 (1861). Inventár, Levoča 1996, 75 s.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Jewish Museum Prague
- Author of the description:
- JMP/HDC Survey 2016-18