Metadata: District Office of Bytča
Collection
- Country:
- Slovakia
- Holding institution:
- State archive in Žilina (based in Bytča)
- Holding institution (official language):
- Štátny archív v Žiline so sídlom v Bytči
- Postal address:
- S. Sakalovej 106/3, Bytča, 014 01
- Phone number:
- 00421 41 5533311
- Web address:
- http://www.minv.sk/?archivy
- Email:
- archiv.za@minv.sk
- Reference number:
- 19521
- Title:
- District Office of Bytča
- Title (official language):
- Slúžnovský úrad v Bytči
- Creator/accumulator:
- District Office of Bytča
- Date(s):
- 1863/1922
- Language:
- Hungarian
- Slovak
- Extent:
- 4.1 linear metres
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
- The fonds contains documents of the political governance of Bytča district. Jews are mentioned in the files relating to industry and business as tenants. Relevant are the following documents: recovery of tax arrears from members of the Jewish religious community in Bytča (1884, 1897, 1921); disputes between the Jewish religious community in Bytča and its branch in Vysoká nad Kysucou (1887-90); a complaint from teachers at the Jewish school about the Jewish religious community in Bytča (1897); surname changes (1898, 1899); building series (1898-99); Jewish school in Kotešová (1900); information on industrial enterprises (1896-1918); general meeting of the Jewish religious community in Bytča (1919); complaints about looting in several villages and a list of Jews who left their homes (1919); establishment of a branch of the Jewish Party in Bytča (1920); and Hanukkah organised by the Ahavat Zion Society in Bytča (1921).
- Archival history:
- After the dissolution of the District Office in Bytča, the documents were deposited in the seat of Trenčín County. After a territorial reorganisation they were transferred to the State Regional Archives in Nitra, and finally, the fonds was taken over by the State Regional Archives in Bytča. The fonds is currently being processed.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- District offices (Szolgabírói hivatal) were established in 1849 as temporary offices of public administration. A reorganisation took place in 1850, and another in 1853. The District Office was the lowest political-administrative unit in Trenčín County and at the same time the first instance court. The seat was in Bytča. It was headed by the chief officer who was assisted by one or two officers, with other staff in the office. The judicial agenda was withdrawn and handed over to district courts in 1871. The Office supervised compliance with the law, kept the agenda of taxes, fees, military affairs, elections, being also the industrial supervision of the first instance. The area of the district of Považská Bystrica was divided into fourteen notarial districts. After the establishment of the Czechoslovak Republic, the structure of the Office remained unchanged, only the territorial jurisdiction was partially altered.
- Access points: locations:
- Bytča
- Kotešová
- Vysoká nad Kysucou
- System of arrangement:
- The fonds is currently being processed.
- Access, restrictions:
- Unavailable for research.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Jewish Museum Prague
- Author of the description:
- JMP/HDC Survey 2016-18