Archives of the Town of Pacov

Collection

Creator/accumulator:: Pacov Municipality; Magistrate of the City of Pacov; Municipal Office of Pacov; National Committee of Pacov

Scope and content:: The fonds contains documents, official books, and files. Documents containing information about Jews are: a book with records of Jewish houses (No. I-X) 1766-1878 (inv. No. 26); land book for seats in the synagogue 1823-1869 (inv. No. 64); census of Jews, issuance of residential certificates, a dispute regarding the business of a Jew from Pacov, Jewish marriages, a report on Jewish registries of births, deaths and marriages, a report on the book of places in the synagogue, expansion of Jewish cemetery, attacks on Jews, the Meller family, confiscation of books by Joshua Meller, a list of transported Jews 1850- 1943 (inv. No. 365); a dispute over the honour of a Jew (inv. No. 375); private buildings - Jewish houses 1850-1904 (inv. No. 438); apartments after Jews (inv. No. 527); Jew Rudolf Press, lists of Jews 1880-1881 (inv. No. 564); Jewish ball (inv. No. 580); Polish refugees from Galicia (inv. No. 621).

Archival history:: Until the modern times, the documents were probably stored in a chest at the town hall. At the beginning of the 18th century, mainly town books were stored in a cupboard in the scribe's office. At the end of the first half of the 20th century, the documents were stored in the town museum. The fonds was transferred from the Pacov District Archives to the Pelhřimov District Archives.

Administrative/biographical history:: The first dated report on Pacov is from the year of 1316. It belonged to the non-royal towns, where various secular lords and later also ecclesiastical ones took turns. A regulated municipality was established there in 1795. The municipal self-governing office was established after the 1850 reforms.

In 1570, a Jewish family is mentioned in the provincial tax register. In 1680, a cemetery was established there. The organised Jewish community was documented only in the 18th century, 18 families living there in 1793. They were mostly merchants, but there was also a winemaker, a potash maker, a teacher, a synagogue cantor, and a kosher butcher. The local Jews lived in reserved houses bearing Roman numbers I-X in several locations.

Subject terms:: Antisemitism; Cemeteries; Census; Legal matters; Real estate; Refugees; Synagogues; Trade and commerce; Vital records; Vital records--Birth records; Vital records--Death records; Vital records--Marriage records

System of arrangement:: The fonds is divided into documents ensuring the rights of the town and individual citizens. The official books are divided into books of the town administration and the town judiciary until and after 1850. The register finding aids are divided in the same way. The files until 1850 are divided into 8 subject groups. The newer registry from 1850-1945 is divided into 18 groups. The fonds also contains accounting material, maps, and seal matrixes.

Finding aids:: Franková, Lidmila and Holub, Pavel. ARCHIV MĚSTA PACOV 1457-1945 (1954). Inventář, 2009, 140 pp., ev.č. [call number] 1005.