Metadata: District Office of Ilava
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:
- 19525
- Title:
- District Office of Ilava
- Title (official language):
- Slúžnovský úrad v Ilave
- Creator/accumulator:
- District Office of Ilava
- Date(s):
- 1880/1922
- Language:
- Hungarian
- Slovak
- Extent:
- 6 linear metres
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
- The fonds contains a fraction of the documents of the political governance of the Ilava district. Jews are mentioned in files relating to industry, business and trade. Relevant are the following documents: anti-Jewish riots (1919, 1920); Jewish religious community in Ilava, church tax (1920); establishment of a Jewish kitchen (1922); Zion Society in Trenčianske Teplice (1922); Jewish religious community in Trenčianske Teplice, complaint about church tax (1922).
- Archival history:
- After the dissolution of the District Office in Ilava the documents were stored in the seat of the County Office in Trenčín. 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. Currently, the fonds is being processed.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- The district offices (Szolgabírói hivatal) were established in 1849, first as temporary offices of the 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. It was seated in Ilava, being headed by the chief officer who was assisted by one or two officers, with other staff in the office. The judicial agenda was transferred to district courts in 1871. The office supervised compliance with the law, kept the agenda of taxes, fees, military affairs, and elections, being also the industrial supervision of the first degree. The area of Povážská Bystrica District 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:
- Ilava
- Trenčianske Teplice
- 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