Metadata: Archives of the Town of Humpolec
Collection
- Country:
- Czechia
- Holding institution:
- Pelhřimov State District Archives
- Holding institution (official language):
- Státní okresní archiv Pelhřimov
- Postal address:
- Pražská 1883, 393 01 Pelhřimov
- Phone number:
- +420 565 323 626
- Web address:
- http://pelhrimov.mza.cz
- Email:
- soka_pelhrimov@mza.cz
- Reference number:
- 227
- Title:
- Archives of the Town of Humpolec
- Title (official language):
- Archiv města Humpolec
- Creator/accumulator:
- Humpolec Minucipality; Municipal Office of Humpolec; National Committee of Humpolec
- Date(s):
- 1483/1945
- Date note:
- 1483/1945 (1960)
- Language:
- Latin
- German
- Czech
- Extent:
- 44.16 linear metres
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- poor
- Scope and content:
- The fonds contains documents, official books, and file material. The following documents explicitly refer to Jews: a land register for Jewish landlords (inv. No. 38); Jewish affairs (inv. No. 291); confirmation of the inheritance right to the winery for the protected Jew Salomon Bäck (inv. No. 293); a dispute between the municipality and the Jewish religious community over lands 1788-1847 (inv. No. 308); protection letter for a Jew 1825 (inv. No. 332); census - the Jewish town 1869 (inv. No. 530); the Jewish town No. I - XXIV, No. 477-491: among other things the numbering of Jewish houses with Roman numerals, sales of houses, new construction after a fire, reconstructions, demolitions, regulation plan, an extension of a road, building plans 1853-1887 (inv. No. 633); purchase of Jewish houses due to roads (inv. No. 652); lists of Jewish houses with descriptions of apartments and subtenants (inv. no. 750); Jewish houses and flats: among other things there are a list of sealed flats, lists and descriptions of the houses of individual Jewish owners and ‘Aryans’ renting apartments to Jews 1940-1942 (inv. No. 751); Jewish school: among other things, giving up the land around the synagogue to establish a school garden, the town's contribution for a two-class school, the construction of a shed at the school in No. XXIII 1861-1888 (inv. No. 780); matters of the Jewish denomination: among other things, elections of representatives of the Jewish community, lists, marriages, ownership of the synagogue at No. XXIII, foundations, property, decrees concerning the Jewish population, travel permits 1838-1944 (inv. No. 794); Jewish cemetery: among others, lands for expansion, damage caused to the cemetery, house for the gravedigger, Chevra Kadisha 1866-1924 (inv. No. 795); Jewish houses (inv. No. 871); statements of taxpayers of the direct tax of the Jewish faith (inv. No. 891).
- Archival history:
- Among the oldest documents are deeds from 1483. Official books and a fragment of files from the period after the Battle of White Mountain have been preserved. The documents from the period of the municipality office after 1807 are well preserved. The modern material was kept according to chronological or various factual classifications. In the past, the registry was damaged by moving, fires and appraisal proceedings. After the abolition of the Humpolec District Archives, the fonds was transferred to the Pelhřimov District Archives.
- Administrative/biographical history:
-
The first record of Humpolec dates back to 1219. It was a non-royal town belonging to ecclesiastical or secular lords. In 1807 it was promoted to a free protective city and the administration was run by a regulated municipality office. From 1850 until 1945, there was a self-governing municipal office.
Jews came to Humpolec at the turn of the 18th century and established a ghetto above the town. In 1793, 188 Jews lived there. An organised religious community has been documented since the 18th century, and a cemetery was established behind the town at the beginning of the 18th century. The synagogue dates from 1762. After the Second World War, the synagogue was sold to the Czechoslovak Hussite Church.
- Access points: locations:
- Humpolec
- Access points: persons/families:
- Back, Salomon
- System of arrangement:
- The fonds is divided into documents ensuring the rights of the city and individuals, official books since 1784, file material: registry finding aids and files from the pre-regulated period; files of the regulated municipality office and files of the municipal office from the years 1850-1945, accounting books and accounting files.
- Finding aids:
- Krčilová, Irena and Martínková, Lenka. ARCHIV MĚSTA HUMPOLEC. Inventář, 2005, 140 pp., ev.č. [call number] 950.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Jewish Museum Prague
- Author of the description:
- JMP Survey