Metadata: Collection of Contemporary Documentation
Collection
- Country:
- Czechia
- Holding institution:
- Havlíčkův Brod State District Archives
- Holding institution (official language):
- Státní okresní archiv Havlíčkův Brod
- Postal address:
- Kyjovská 1125, 580 01 Havlíčkův Brod
- Phone number:
- +420 569 429 742
- Web address:
- http://havlickuv-brod.mza.cz
- Email:
- soka_havlickuvbrod@mza.cz
- Reference number:
- 1199
- Title:
- Collection of Contemporary Documentation
- Title (official language):
- Sbírka soudobé dokumentace
- Creator/accumulator:
- Town museum of Německý Brod; District Regional Museum Havlíčkův Brod; Havlíčkův Brod District Archives
- Date(s):
- 1602/2015
- Language:
- Czech
- German
- Extent:
- 40.57 linear metres
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- poor
- Scope and content:
- The fonds originated due to the collecting activities of the Municipal Museum in Německý Brod, and later due to the activities of the district archives. These parts are followed by the documentation from the period after 1945. The fonds contains documents concerning elections to the town council, the Chamber of Deputies, the Senate, and the National Assembly, the war of 1866, World War I and II, revolutions, celebrations and various events, the workers' movement, the Communist Party and other political parties , cultural activities, sports, economy and industry, social life, Haškova Lipnice festival, documentation of rural municipalities, decrees of the town, the district national committee, the district and regional offices, newspaper clippings and various prints. The fonds also contains documentation of important personalities connected with Havlíčkův Brod. Information on the history of Jews can be found in documents from World War I (slum colony, refugees) and from World War II (decrees against Jews). The fonds contains small amounts of material on other historical topics, such as obituaries (ing. Kraus, Josef Pachner) or records of exhibitions with Jewish themes.
- Archival history:
- The fonds was created gradually, through collecting activities of the staff of the museum and the district archives, focusing on the documentation of important events in the town at given times.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- The beginning of the town museum is considered to be the year 1874, when a museum association was established. Collection-building began, which was intensified during an ethnographic exhibition. At the turn of the 20th century, the museum focused on collecting regional objects and objects associated with Karel Havlíček Borovský. At the same time, it developed research activities concerning the history of the town and documentation of events in the town and its surroundings. After 1945, its efforts were followed by the district archives in Havlíčkův Brod, which took over part of the museum material.
- Access points: locations:
- Německý Brod
- Access points: persons/families:
- Kraus
- Pachner, Josef
- System of arrangement:
- The fonds is divided thematically and according to the nature of the documents into several sections (see the thematic description of the fonds).
- Access, restrictions:
- The collection is partly accessible.
- Finding aids:
- Vencová, E.: SOUDOBÁ DOKUMENTACE - SBÍRKA PLAKÁTŮ, 1731 - 2000. Prozatímní inventární seznam, 2004, ev.č. [call number] 237.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Jewish Museum Prague
- Author of the description:
- JMP Survey
