Metadata: Archives of the Town of Bechyně
Collection
- Country:
- Czechia
- Holding institution:
- Tábor State District Archives
- Holding institution (official language):
- Státní okresní archiv Tábor
- Postal address:
- Na Parkánech 1623, 390 01 Tábor
- Phone number:
- +420 381 765 101
- Web address:
- http://ceskearchivy.cz
- Email:
- posta-ta@ceskearchivy.cz
- Reference number:
- 390
- Title:
- Archives of the Town of Bechyně
- Title (official language):
- Archiv města Bechyně
- Creator/accumulator:
- Town of Bechyně (Bechin)
- Date(s):
- 1444/1945
- Date note:
- 1444/1945 (1953)
- Language:
- Czech
- German
- Extent:
- 40.49 linear metres
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- poor
- Scope and content:
- The fonds contains documents of the local self-government, deeds, books, file material and accounting material. Information relating to Jews can be found in documents from 1826 and 1939-1945 (persecution of Jews during the Nazi occupation, inventories of Jewish property, Jewish flats, Kohn's lands).
- Archival history:
- A lot of the town's documents were destroyed in the mid-18th century. The oldest inventory of the town archives dates from 1769. In the municipal office of the time, the registry was divided into Politicum and Judiciale, each part being kept according to a separate filing protocol (filing protocols in judicialibus have not been preserved). The town archive material was stored at the town hall. In 1943, it was moved to the museum building. The first part of the fonds was handed over to the archives in 1953. Other additions were taken over in the period of 1967-2013. The fonds was processed and in 1981 the files were reclassified and processed in the form of a supplement to the inventory.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- The town of Bechyně was founded in about 1323. After 1340, Bechyně was owned by various aristocratic families (the Šternberk family, the Bechyně family from Lažany, the Švamberks, the Rožmberks, the Paars). The first record of the stay of Jews in the town is a tax census from 1570. The Jewish religious community was founded in the town in the 17th century and it was abolished during the Nazi occupation. From 1850 Bechyně was part of the Bechyně judicial district, in 1850-1855 the Milevsko political district, 1855-1868 Bechyně, 1868-1949 Milevsko.
- Access points: locations:
- Bechyně
- Access points: persons/families:
- Kohn
- Subject terms:
- Antisemitism
- Holocaust
- Land
- Plunder
- Real estate
- System of arrangement:
- The fonds is divided as follows: I. Deeds; II. Books; III. File material: a) registry finding aids, b) files; IV. Accounting material.
- Access, restrictions:
- The collection is partly accessible.
- Finding aids:
-
Lintner Jan, Poustka Karel, Archiv města Bechyně 1444-1948. Inventář, 1962, 78 pp., ev.č. [call number] 19.
Vančata Vladimír, Archiv města Bechyně (1751) 1792-1945 (1946). Doplněk inventáře, 1981, 23 pp., ev.č. [call number] 150.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Jewish Museum Prague
- Author of the description:
- JMP Survey