Metadata: Drugeths of Humenné
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:
- 22686
- Title:
- Drugeths of Humenné
- Title (official language):
- Rod Druget (Drugeth) z Humenného
- Creator/accumulator:
- Drugeth
- Date(s):
- 1223/1945
- Language:
- Latin
- Hungarian
- Slovak
- German
- Extent:
- 45.87 linear metres
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
-
This large fonds contains mostly pre-1848 documents, including a large amount of material of Jewish interest. Post-1848, relevant material includes property law documents concerning the manor of Humenné. They deal with economic activities of members of Jews in Humenné and in villages where the Drugeths' heirs possessed land. There is also Jewish-related material concerning the renting of pubs and other tenures.
Land registers, located within property law documents, contain fractions of records of wine and rentals, accounts, receipts and a register of land from 1864-77 as well as correspondence with the lessor of the distillery from 1905, 1913 and 1915.
The largest quantity of Jewish-related material is contained in the property law documents in the property leasing section. This includes annual and monthly accounts of income and expenditure (1848-61), deposits on lands and purchase and lease contracts (1853-83). These groups of documents are of a general nature. More content-specific groups include those on the lease of specific estates in Humenné, such as a lease agreement with the innkeeper Jakub Beck, including the furnishings of a pub in Humenné (1821-50), the renting of a mill, a slaughterhouse, a tavern called Dudáš (including furnishings) and other pubs (1848-53) and lease agreements of the pubs U Bežca, U medveďa, Zelený strom and Na rohu (1857-60). This group also includes the evaluation of the work of craftsmen on the construction and reconstruction of pubs and the renting of a mill (1857). Some documents concern other municipalities, such as Adidovce, where the lessees were Jews (1838-63). Other documents concern economic activities. These are, in particular, the disputes of Anton Vincent Csáky with the inhabitants of Humenné (1853-60) and the correspondence of the financial directorate with the management of the Humenné distillery 1900-06, 1917).
- Archival history:
- The fonds was stored in the manor house of the Drugeths in Humenné. During the First World War and the invasion of the Russian troops into Humenné, its original arrangement was disturbed but the fonds was not damaged. It suffered great losses during the war in 1944 and the fire of the manor house in 1947 when the documents of the economic register of the manor were almost all destroyed. The fonds was taken over in 1948 by the Regional Branch of the Agricultural Archives in Humenné and in November 1952 by the 2nd Department of the State Archives in Košice based in Levoča. After being taken over by the State Archives in Prešov in 1957, the fonds was arranged, and in 1961 it was completely inventoried. In 2010, when the fonds was re-inventoried, more detailed inventory records and a new structure of the property law documents were created.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- The Drugeths were noblemen of French-Neapolitan origin who came to Hungary along with King Charles Robert of Anjou. The first estates were acquired by Filip Drugeth from the King in what is now northeastern and eastern Slovakia in 1317. Humenné was the centre of the administration of the extensive family estate which gradually became the largest in eastern Slovakia. For this reason, the Drugeths also began to use the predicate of homonnai since 1383. When the family died out in 1684, their large estates were divided among several families (the Zichys, the Csákys, the Vandernáths) but they were still managed as a compossessorate. In 1838, the largest part of the estate came to be owned by the Andrássy family who remained its owners until 1945 when the estate was taken over by the Czechoslovak state.
- Access points: persons/families:
- Beck, Jakub
- Csáky, Anton Vincent
- System of arrangement:
- The fonds consists of 72 documents from the period up to 1526, 11 documents from the period after 1526, 290 official books from 1223-1938, 32 registry finding aids from 1254 and 1860, files from 1292-1943, and 18 pieces of maps and atlases from 1753-1860. It is arranged according to an artificial scheme and is divided into 6 parts: I. Documents, II. Issues of the estates, III. Family matters, IV. Public activities, V. Correspondence, VI. Miscellaneous.
- Access, restrictions:
- Available for research.
- Finding aids:
- Pellová, D.: Drugeth z Humenného 1292 – 1945, I. časť. Inventár, 2010, ev. č. 3989; Pellová, D.: Drugeth z Humenného 1292 – 1945, II. časť. Inventár, 2010, 873 s., ev. č. 5085; Uličný, F.: Druget Humenné (1223) 1292 – 1943. Inventár, 1961, 121 s., ev. č. 187.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Jewish Museum Prague
- Author of the description:
- JMP/HDC Survey 2016-18