Vizovice Town Archives

Collection

Scope and content:: The fonds contains documents of the municipal self-government, deeds, official books, file material and accounting material. It contains only details about Jews: the great distillery of Zikmund Jelínek and Sons, the great distillery in Vizovice - purchase contracts, economic affairs, the inn in Zádveřice, construction plans, the appointment of a "faithful hand" during the 1888–1944 protectorate. The documents from the Holocaust period include the following: inspection and confiscation of supplies in the house of Josef Weiss, No. 417, by the Gestapo 1939; administration of Jewish property and list of Jewish houses and flats 1941–1944. The following material may also be relevant: register of members of the municipality and list of inhabitants according to house numbers 1890–1923; building files and plans 1888–1938; minutes of meetings of the municipal committee 1901–1947.

Archival history:: The town council documents were stored at the town hall. Most of these documents burned in the fire of 1887, only some were saved. They were later bought by the Moravian Provincial Archives in Brno, from where they were transferred to the fonds of the town of Vizovice in 1969. In the 1960s, the documents were organised and in 1968 placed in the Gottwaldov District Archives (now Zlín).

Administrative/biographical history:: The town of Vizovice was first mentioned in a document dating back to 1261. In 1570, Vizovice was promoted to a town. Since 1850 it belonged to the district governor's office in Uherský Brod. A district court, a gendarmerie station and a notary's office were established in Vizovice, and from 1855 the so-called mixed district office. In 1868, Vizovice was included in the district governor's office in Holešov, and the court district remained in Vizovice. In 1935, a new political district of Zlín was formed from the judicial districts of Vizovice and Zlín.

The first records of Jews in Vizovice are associated with the manorial distillery from the 17th century. Jews engaged in distillery business in Vizovice and its surroundings also in the 19th century; after 1848, their number increased. The local Jewish association of Zion operated there. In 1902, a synagogue was built. After the establishment of Czechoslovakia, a branch of the Jewish Party was established in Vizovice.

Access points: persons/families:: Jelínek, Zikmund; Singer, František; Weiss, Josef

Subject terms:: Architectural drawings; Holocaust; Hospitality industry; Hospitality industry--Inns; Nazism; Nazism--Nazi parties and organisations; Plunder; Plunder--Forced closures; Real estate; Trade and commerce; Trade and commerce--Alcohol trade

System of arrangement:: The fonds is divided as follows: I. Deeds, II. Official books, III. File material, IV. Accountant material, V. Other material.

Finding aids:: Vladimír ŠTROBLÍK, Archiv města Vizovic 1531–1945 (1958), rks., ev.č. [call number] 204. Inventář, 1969.