Metadata: Zlín Town Archives
Collection
- Country:
- Czechia
- Holding institution:
- State District Archives of Zlín
- Holding institution (official language):
- Státní okresní archiv Zlín
- Postal address:
- Klečůvka-zámek, 763 11 Želechovice nad Dřevnicí
- Phone number:
- +420 577 901 152
- Web address:
- www.mza.cz/zlin
- Email:
- soka_zlin@mza.cz
- Reference number:
- 161
- Title:
- Zlín Town Archives
- Title (official language):
- Archiv města Zlín
- Creator/accumulator:
- Municipal Office of Zlín; Zlín Municipality; National Committee of Zlín
- Date(s):
- 1509/1949
- Date note:
- 1509/1949 (1959)
- Language:
- Czech
- German
- Extent:
- 52.97 linear metres
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- poor
- Scope and content:
- The fonds contains the material of the self-government of the city of Zlín such as documents, official books, file material and accounting material. Information on Jews can be found in documents relating to objections to Jews settling in Zlín, 1848. From the Holocaust period there are documents regarding the following : Jewish property, forced administration, purchase of Jewish land 1939–1945. Sufficient attention should also be paid to the following documents: register of members of the municipality of Zlín 1891–1948; list of members of the city of Zlín 1901–1947; register of the dead 1910–1939; trade matters: confectionery businesses, inn concessions, trade establishments; criminal files of the Zlín Police Office (Dezidér Ornstein) 1924–1948.
- Archival history:
- The documents were always stored at the town hall. After the fire in Zlín City Hall in 1922, the registry was handed over as a deposit to the archives of the National Museum in Prague. The material was taken to the district archives in Gottwaldov (now Zlín) in the years 1968-1971. The fonds was gradually consolidated and processed in 1971-1975. An addendum to it was organised and an inventory was made in 2002.
- Administrative/biographical history:
-
The earliest record of Zlín comes from a document from 1322. Since the 15th century, the town council and mayor have been at the head of the town. The representative of the lords in the city was the Voigt. After 1848, the municipal board was at the head of the municipality which elected the executive and administrative body - the municipal board (1935–1949).
Jews only started to settle permanently in Zlín after 1848, mostly coming from Jewish communities in Holešov and Uherský Brod. The prayer room was in one of the burgher houses in the square. However, Jews from all over Czechoslovakia also moved there to work in Baťa's factories. In the 1930s, more than a hundred Jewish people were permanently settled in Zlín, or at least they stayed there for some time. A room in the Zlín chateau was used as a prayer room. In 1935, a special Jewish department was established in the newly built Forest Cemetery.
- Access points: locations:
- Zlín
- Access points: persons/families:
- Meisl
- Ornstein, Dezider
- Tauss
- Weinstein
- System of arrangement:
- The fonds is divided as follows: I. Deeds, II. Official books, III. File material, IV. Accounting material, V. Seal matrixes, VI. Maps and plans, VII. Other material. The material is divided into pre-1850 and post-1850 parts.
- Access, restrictions:
- The collection is partly accessible.
- Finding aids:
-
Jiří Hanzal, Archiv města Zlína 1509–1949, rks., ev.č. [call number] 221. Inventář, Klečůvka 1975.
Kamila NEČASOVÁ, Archiv města Zlín – rejstříky osobních spisů a trhových smluv 1634–1945 (1954), rks., ev.č. [call number] 480. Dílčí inventář, Zlín-Klečůvka 2002.
Jiří Hanzal, Archiv města Zlín – výběrový seznam korespondence městského úřadu ve Zlíně z let 1850–1889, rks., ev.č. [call number] 397. Katalog, Klečůvka 1976
- Yerusha Network member:
- Jewish Museum Prague
- Author of the description:
- JMP Survey