Metadata: Superior Mining Authority, Příbram
Collection
- Country:
- Czechia
- Holding institution:
- National Archives of the Czech Republic
- Holding institution (official language):
- Národní archiv
- Postal address:
- Archivní 2257/4, 149 00 Praha 4
- Phone number:
- +420 974 847 240
- Web address:
- https://www.nacr.cz
- Email:
- posta@nacr.cz
- Reference number:
- 218
- Title:
- Superior Mining Authority, Příbram
- Title (official language):
- Vrchní horní úřad Příbram
- Creator/accumulator:
- Superior Mining Authority Příbram
- Date(s):
- 1527/1868
- Date note:
- 1527/1868 (1907)
- Language:
- Czech
- German
- Extent:
- 203 linear metres
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
-
The files and books provide information mainly on the mining of metals and their industrial processing. The fonds also contains accounting material, technological procedures, personnel matters of employees and mine management, including social matters - wages, pensions, sickness benefits, common insurance funds. Also, official correspondence of the chief mining office with the court chamber and visitation reports and inspections at subordinate mining offices.
As for Jewish issues, various regulations for the Jewish population, marriage permits, business transactions, access to markets, etc., can be found in the fonds. In most cases, however, these are not mine employees, but Jewish serfs of the Zbiroh and Pribram estates, since serfdom was not abolished in the Austrian Empire until September 1848 and freedom for all religions, including the Jewish one, was not guaranteed until the so-called Protestant patent of 1868. The fonds contains some documents relating to Jewish issues. They can be traced according to the Inventory 1959, namely: Inv. no. 139a 1854: manuscript 'Ältere Geschichte der Stadt Přibram und Bergbaues in der Umgebung chronologisch bearbeitet von Edvard Klesezynski. Inv. no. 343o; reg. no. 1; 1653-1813; box 71: Legal mining matters, various privileges, Jewish matters, etc., Inv. no. 345; reg. no. 3; 1549-1814; number 1; year 1604; box 75: Regulation on Jewish trade in Kutná Hora. Inv. no. 418; reg. no. 1; 1814-1841; box 178: Legal mining matters - various privileges - Jewish affairs - regulations on entering towns, markets, leases, etc., 88 pages in all (the first page is missing). Inv. no. 494; reg. no. 1; 1842-1849; box 459: Legal mining matters, Jewish affairs such as permission to enter towns, markets, etc. Inv. no. 570; reg. no. 8; 1832-1852; box 578: Serfs' and Jews' affairs, letters of release, requests by Jews for protection and permission to leave, sale of manorial houses, expenses for persons in penal institutions, etc
- Archival history:
- The documents were first deposited with the originator; later they were stored in the company archives of the Příbram mines. In 1941, part of the fonds was transferred to the former Archives of the Ministry of the Interior and it was partially arranged according to individual registration numbers. In the 1950s, the fonds was transferred to the present National Archives where it was revised and organised. Some of the auxiliary books were placed in boxes and assigned to the so-called miscellaneous items of the Superior Mining Authority Jáchymov, so they were not found until 1957, when the work on organising the fonds of the Superior Mining Authority Příbram had already been completed.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- The first reports of silver and iron ore mining in Příbram date back to the beginning of the 14th century. From the very beginning of mining there was a mining office in Příbram which was filled by the Czech monarch. In 1812, the mining office was reorganised and a system of mountain authorities was introduced. They were supervised by chief mining offices. The chief mining offices controlled the mining offices in economic and administrative matters, and in political and judicial matters they passed reports to the court chamber and sent technical reports to the governorate.The mining offices of Příbram, Jílové, Rudolfov, Kutná Hora, the metallurgical office of Příbram and, from 1836, the mining office in Stříbro were subject to the Příbram office, and in 1834, also the Zbiroh estate with several iron works and the mining office in Zbiroh. In 1854, the chief mining offices were abolished and their place was taken by the mining governor’s offices, later the regional mining offices.
- Access points: locations:
- Kutná Hora
- Příbram
- Zbiroh
- Subject terms:
- Legal status of Jews
- Marriage and divorce
- Mining
- Privileges
- Trade and commerce
- System of arrangement:
- The fonds is organised into presidial registry (official books, presidial files), ordinary registry (standard books, instructions, contracts, examinations and applications), payroll accounting records (1830-1898), books of operational accounting records (1787-1891) and files (decrees, cash and payroll files).
- Finding aids:
-
Kabátová L., Vrchní horní úřad Příbram (VHÚ Příbram), 1547–1907. Inventory 1959, 223p., Inv. No. 200.
Kubátová L., Špiritová A., Vrchní horní úřad Příbram dodatky (VHÚ Příbram), 1527–1868. Appendix to the inventory 1963, 36p., Inv. No. 218.
- Links to finding aids:
- https://vademecum.nacr.cz/vademecum/index4Clear.jsp
- Yerusha Network member:
- Jewish Museum Prague
- Author of the description:
- JMP survey
