Metadata: Municipal Office of Smiřice
Collection
- Country:
- Czechia
- Holding institution:
- State District Archives in Hradec Králové
- Holding institution (official language):
- Státní okresní archiv Hradec Králové
- Postal address:
- Škroupova 695/2, 500 02 Hradec Králové
- Phone number:
- +420 495 402 611
- Web address:
- https://vychodoceskearchivy.cz/hradeckralove/
- Email:
- podatelna.hk@ahapa.cz
- Reference number:
- 1522
- Title:
- Municipal Office of Smiřice
- Title (official language):
- Městský úřad Smiřice
- Creator/accumulator:
- Municipal Office of the Town Smiřice nad Labem
- Date(s):
- 1611/1945
- Language:
- Czech
- Extent:
- 22.9 linear metres
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- poor
- Scope and content:
- The fonds contains documents on the history of the town of Smiřice, deeds, official books, file material, and accounting material. Information about Jews in the town can be found in the commemorative book, call no. 58-61 (description of the population); call no. 63 (census according to house numbers); inv. no. 65 (book of the dead), inv. no. 194 (situation of Jews in the municipality, operation of their shop [1835-1849]); inv. no. 668-727 (account of the Adolf Ignác Mautner Foundation, 1871-1927); inv. no. 776-812 (account of the Mautner Municipal Kitchen, 1895-1935).
- Archival history:
- The archival documents were destroyed in 1839 by fire and later by improper storage. The fonds itself is divided into two periods, the first part until 1850 and the second part until 1945. The fonds moved several times over the years. Part of it was stored in the Smiřice Museum, from where it moved to Jaroměř in 1953, and moved back from Jaroměř in 1960. In 1961, the archives of the town of Smiřice moved to the archives in Hradec Králové. The fonds was inventoried there, the inventory being made in 1967-68.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- The first record of Smiřice dates from the 13th century. During the war of 1866, the mayor was Karel Sedláček, who fled, did not hand over the office to anyone and never returned. The new administration of the city was elected in the first municipal election of 1919, 30 members of the municipal council being elected. On October 15, 1929, Smiřice was promoted to a market town. In November 1940, the municipal council was dissolved. In 1941, a three-member administrative commission of the town was established. After the war, a national committee was established. There was not a Jewish community in the town, but a significant Jewish family, the Mautner family. Adolf Ignác Mautner von Markhof, a native of Smiřice, helped in the development of the town (establishing breweries, a house for the poor and orphans).
- Access points: locations:
- Smiřice
- System of arrangement:
- The fonds is divided as follows: I. Deeds, a) privileges, b) judgments of the Court of Appeal in Prague; II. Books, Books until 1850, Books after 1850, a) commemorative books, b) administrative books, c) record books; III. File material, a) registry finding aids, b) files of the old town registry office/fragment, c) town registry office since 1850; IV. Accounting material
- Finding aids:
- Wipler, Jan: MĚSTSKÝ ÚŘAD SMIŘICE NAD LABEM (1611-1945). Inventář 1968, 51 pp., ev.č. [call number] 92
- Yerusha Network member:
- Jewish Museum Prague
- Author of the description:
- JMP Survey