Metadata: Deputy County Head of Zemplín County
Collection
- Country:
- Slovakia
- Holding institution:
- State Archive in Prešov
- Holding institution (official language):
- Štátny archív v Prešove
- Postal address:
- Slovenská 40, Prešov, 080 01
- Phone number:
- 00421 51 773 30 05
- Web address:
- http://www.minv.sk/?archivy
- Email:
- archiv.po@minv.sk
- Reference number:
- 22478
- Title:
- Deputy County Head of Zemplín County
- Title (official language):
- Zemplínska župa – podžupan
- Creator/accumulator:
- Zemplín County
- Date(s):
- 1609/1902
- Language:
- Hungarian
- Extent:
- 2.04 linear metres
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- poor
- Scope and content:
-
Part of the fonds deposited at the state archives in Prešov consists of the deputy county head’s documents. They relate to the territory of Zemplín county and deal with all aspects of social development. Material of Jewish interest can be found throughout the fonds, particularly in registers, such as: official permissions from the municipality of Čemerné and the town of Sátoraljaújhely to end a marriage (1887), birth certificates from the municipality of Čeľovce (1888) and numerous entries in the registers of Jewish districts in the towns of Královský Chlmec, Sečovce, Trebišov and Vranov nad Topľou and the municipalities of Zemplínska Nová Ves and Brezina (1887-89). There are also requests for a change of first name (e.g. Jakub Jakubovič of Humenné, who asked to change his son’s first name from Isidor to Imrich in 1891) and of surname (e.g. Béla Krausz of Humenné, who requested to change his surname to Kemeny in 1902).
Similar to register matters are also issues of domicile certificates, applications for domicile (e.g. Armín Kohn and Kati Bernsteinová of Humenné, Móric Schreiber of Budapest in the town of Sečovce, 1888) and applications for support for illegitimate children raised by others and exemption from military duty, which also mention Jews. Numerous Jewish-related items concern the issue of passports to the United States and other unspecified countries, such as those of Betti Jakabovičová of Kráľovský Chlmec (1887), Leni Blumová of Vranov nad Topľou, Samuel Gelb of Sačurov (1888) and Abraham Koller of Sátoraljaújhely and Mór Neumann of Vyšná Kamenice (1889).
Several documents deal with economic activities of Jewish entrepreneurs, such as the permission to use steam machines in Ignac Wieder's distillery in Hatalov (1886), the request of Adolf Heisler for permission to use the quarry in the municipality of Somotor (1888) and the request of Adolf Stern of Vranov nad Topľou for permission to sell gunpowder (1890). Some contain information about reimbursement of work costs, e.g. to Jozef Blum for the construction of a bridge in Nižný Hrabovec (1888) and to Mark Weiss of Kvakovce for the construction of a wooden dam on the Ondava river (1890). Other documents concern breaches in trade matters.
Documents related to social issues can also be found, e.g. fees for the treatment of poor people by individual municipalities and the provision of financial assistance, e.g. to Móric Gerstl and Maria Gerstlová of Vranov nad Topľou (1890).
Several documents deal with the social and association activities of Jewish communities and individuals, such as those concerning controversies in the Jewish Orthodox religious community in Humenné (1888) and granting financial support to the teacher Aaron Amsell and his colleagues in Stropkov for an association promoting Hungarian language and education (1889).
Given the number, spread and activities of the Jewish population, items of Jewish interest may also be found in documents such as minutes of local council meetings from various municipalities (1888).
- Archival history:
- The basic archival fonds of Zemplín County is deposited in the Hungarian National Archives of Borsod-Abov-Zemplín County in Miskolc, branch in Sátoraljaújhely (the Hungarian National Archives Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén County, Sátoraljaújhely Branch Archives). In the Prešov State Archives there is only part of the documents coming mainly from the activities of the county-head deputy which are registered as a separate fonds. These documents were found in the State Archives in Bratislava, from where they were transferred to the State Archives in Prešov in 1957 where they have been stored since. In 1958, the fonds was arranged. In 1984, it was completed by purchasing several documents from a private person. In 1990, the fonds was completely inventoried, but after moving a part of the fonds from 1803 from the State Archives in Košice in 2004 it is again in the state of only partial inventorying.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- Zemplín County was situated in what is today eastern Slovakia and northeastern Hungary, its northern part forming, until 1918, the boundary between historical Hungary and Galicia. The original seat of the county at Zemplín Castle was transferred to Sátoraljaújhely in the mid-18th century. The oldest record of the county archives dates back to 1558. Zemplín County was divided into districts whose number was grew gradually. Prior to 1918, it was formed of 12 districts: Medzibodrožský, Sečovský, Humenský, Medzilaborský, Michalovský, Blatnopotocký (Sárospatacký), Šátoraljaújhelský, Szerenčský, Sninský, Stropkovský, Tokajský, Vranovský and one town with the municipality office. When Hungary ceased to exist, its territory was divided between Czechoslovakia and Hungary. The Czechoslovak part of Zemplín County was enlarged with a part of Ung County and existed until 1922.
- Subject terms:
- Aid and relief
- Children
- Education
- Education--Teachers and professors
- Financial matters
- Marriage and divorce
- Migration
- Migration--Emigration
- Military
- Orthodox Judaism
- Passports and visas
- Poverty
- Residency issues of Jews
- Trade and commerce
- Trade and commerce--Alcohol trade
- Vital records
- Vital records--Birth records
- Vital records--Death records
- Vital records--Marriage records
- System of arrangement:
- The fonds consists of official books from 1609-1803 and the county-head deputy's files from 1804-1902. The inventoried files are arranged in chronological-numerical order.
- Access, restrictions:
- Available for research.
- Finding aids:
- Olejárová, J.: Zemplínska župa (1609) 1886 – 1902. Inventár, 1990, 42 s., ev. č. 2541.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Jewish Museum Prague
- Author of the description:
- JMP/HDC Survey 2016-18
