Metadata: Archives of the Town of Benešov
Collection
- Country:
- Czechia
- Holding institution:
- State District Archives of Benešov
- Holding institution (official language):
- Státní okresní archiv Benešov
- Postal address:
- Pod Lihovarem 2145, Benešov 256 01
- Phone number:
- +420 311 000 101
- Web address:
- http://www.soapraha.cz/benesov/
- Email:
- soka-benesov@soapraha.cz
- Reference number:
- 3
- Title:
- Archives of the Town of Benešov
- Title (official language):
- Archiv města Benešov
- Creator/accumulator:
- Magistrate of the Town of Benešov; Controlled town council of Benešov; Municipal Office of Benešov, District National Committee Benešov; National Committee of Benešov
- Date(s):
- 1850/1945
- Language:
- Czech
- German
- Extent:
- 63.77 linear metres
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- Good
- Scope and content:
-
The fonds contains official books, files, accounting material, and photographs. From the period up to 1850, the archives contain books of decrees including a document by which Jan of Lobkovice waives the right to provide protection to the town of Benešov and to receive inhabitants of the Jewish religion into the town, inv. no. 50 (1848). There are also the censuses of the population in individual periods, especially inv. no. 795, call no. XIX B, Census of the Jewish Population (1850).
Jews are explicitly mentioned in the following documents: Church affairs - keeping Jewish registries inv.no. 842 (call no. XXV L1), Matrimonial Affairs of the Jewish Population (call no. XXV L2); Judicial matters of the Jewish population - general information; inheritance proceedings (call no. XXV L3) 1718-1837, Judicial proceedings in matters of the Jewish population (defamation) (call no. XXV L4); Houses and shops of Jewish inhabitants (call no. XXV L5); Collections of the Jewish community for charitable purposes (call no. XXV L6); Behaviour of the Jewish population in Benešov (call no. XXV L7); Expulsion of Jewish residents from Benešov (call no. XXV L8); The lawsuit of the Jewish community against Antonín Urbanides in the case of the synagogue (call no. XXV L9); Matters of the Jewish population (inv. no. 910 call no. X) 1851-1862, and trade affairs. Residence reports: affairs of the Jewish population (inv. no. 1049 call no. VIII/CH) (1940-1944); (inv. no. 1047); Taking care of the unemployed; Housing matters: houses for the poor, housing allocation, apartments for the Jewish population (call no. VIII (E2)) - 1932-1944; inv. no. 1049 call no. VIII/F Residence report: Matters of the Jewish population (1940-1944).
- Archival history:
- Until the beginning of the 18th century the fonds has been preservded only in fragments. It was damaged by fires but also by reckless appraisal processes. Since the 18th century, the archive material had been stored in the town hall, and it was moved various times, so there were losses. It was handed over to the District Archives in Benešov in 1957. The fonds was organised and inventoried in the 1970s.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- The first record of Benešov is from the 13th century. At the head of the town was a town council composed of councillors headed by a mayor. In 1836, the regulated municipality ceased to exist, and in 1849 the municipal authority began its activities. In 1850, Benešov became the seat of the newly established district office. At the head was an elected municipal committee with a mayor. During the Nazi occupation, the mayor was appointed head of the city as government commissioner. There was a Gestapo office in the town. In 1945, the National Committee took power in the town.
- Access points: locations:
- Benešov
- System of arrangement:
- The fonds is arranged as follows: I. Books, II. File material, IV. Accounting material, V. Other material.
- Access, restrictions:
- The collection is partly accessible.
- Finding aids:
-
Procházková, E: Archiv mešta Benešova, 1489-1945/1953/, Part I. Inventory 1977, p. 154, inventory No. 29.;
Procházková, E: Archiv mešta Benešova, 1489-1945/1953/, Part II. Inventory 1977, p. 157, inventory no. 30.
- Links to finding aids:
- http://soapraha.bach.cz/soapraha/index.jsp
- Yerusha Network member:
- Jewish Museum Prague
- Author of the description:
- JMP survey
