Metadata: Market Town of Rajec
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:
- 26187
- Title:
- Market Town of Rajec
- Title (official language):
- Mestečko Rajec
- Creator/accumulator:
- Market Town of Rajec
- Date(s):
- 1476/1871
- Language:
- Latin
- German
- Hungarian
- Slovak
- Extent:
- 5 linear metres
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
- Data on Jews can be found in the general files, tax series, accounting files and court files. Relevant are the following documents: list of Jews (1847); list of inhabitants of Rajec (1852); additional charge for the Jewish population (1853); rentals, auctions of town assets and rights (1848-71); election of a Jew to the county council (1868); tax registers (1771-1854); tax books (1861-66); and debt disputes (1861-71).
- Archival history:
- The fonds was stored in the building of the town archives and in 1961 it was transferred, unarranged, to the State Archives. In the past, part of the fonds was destroyed due to inappropriate storage.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- A non-royal town with its own administrative bodies, the mayor and the town council. After 1848 the laws were amended several times and in 1861 a new town office was established. In 1872 Rajec gained the status of a large community
- Access points: locations:
- Rajec
- Subject terms:
- Financial matters
- Financial matters--Debt
- Jewish political activity
- System of arrangement:
- During processing it was not possible to identify and use the original system of arrangement, so the files are arranged according to the chronological-numerical system.
- Access, restrictions:
- Available for research.
- Finding aids:
- Štanský, P.: Mestečko Rajec 1476 – 1871 (1883). Inventár, 1975, 84 str.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Jewish Museum Prague
- Author of the description:
- JMP/HDC Survey 2016-18