Metadata: District Office of Námestovo
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:
- 19531
- Title:
- District Office of Námestovo
- Title (official language):
- Slúžnovský úrad v Námestove
- Creator/accumulator:
- District Office of Námestovo
- Date(s):
- 1850/1922
- Language:
- German
- Hungarian
- Slovak
- Extent:
- 15 linear metres
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
- The fonds contains documents of the political governance of Námestovo district. Jews are mentioned in documents of the series of building permits (1887-1922). Also relevant are: emigration documents, surname changes, lists of virilists (1898-1922); trade licences (1905-1922); confiscation of an anti-Jewish publication (1896); statutes of the Jewish religious community in Námestovo (1909); a complaint about Jews working on Sundays (1910); rationing flour to Jews for their holidays (1918); and a list of Jews in the district (1919).
- Archival history:
- After the dissolution of the District Office, the files were deposited in the seat of the district where some of the documents are likely to have been lost because a part of the fonds was not preserved and some of the subject groups are in fragments. The documents were taken over in 1955-1956 by the State Archives in Bytča.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- District offices (Szolgabírói hivatal) were established in 1849 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 and at the same time the first instance court in Oravská County. The district office was seated in Námestovo. It was headed by the chief officer who was helped by one or two officers. There was other staff in the office, too. The judicial agenda was transferred to district courts in 1871. The office supervised obedience to law, kept the agenda of taxes, fees, military affairs, and elections, being also the industrial supervision of the first instance. After the establishment of the Czechoslovak Republic, the structure of the Office remained unchanged until 1922 when it ceased to exist.
- Access points: locations:
- Námestovo
- System of arrangement:
- During processing, the original arrangement was preserved, until 1902 by subject groups, since 1903 by basic numbers.
- Access, restrictions:
- Available for research.
- Finding aids:
- Churý, S. a kol.: Slúžnovský úrad v Námestove, 1850 – 1922. Inventár, Bytča, 1978, 82 str.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Jewish Museum Prague
- Author of the description:
- JMP/HDC Survey 2016-18