Metadata: Archives of the Town of Poděbrady
Collection
- Country:
- Czechia
- Holding institution:
- State District Archives Nymburk in Lysá nad Labem
- Holding institution (official language):
- Státní okresní archiv Nymburk se sídlem v Lysé nad Labem
- Postal address:
- Zámecká 6/13, p. s. 11, Lysá nad Labem, PSČ 289 22
- Phone number:
- +420 325 551 046
- Web address:
- http://www.soapraha.cz/nymburk/
- Email:
- soka-nymburk@soapraha.cz
- Reference number:
- 196
- Title:
- Archives of the Town of Poděbrady
- Title (official language):
- Archiv města Poděbrady
- Creator/accumulator:
- Poděbrady Municipality; Controlled Town Council Poděbrady; Municipal Office of Poděbrady; Martin Paroubkovský Institute of the Poor Poděbrady; Committee for the Support of Polish Refugees Poděbrady
- Date(s):
- 1567/1945
- Date note:
- 1567/1945 (1951)
- Language:
- Latin
- German
- Czech
- Extent:
- 113. 83 linear metres
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- Good
- Scope and content:
-
The fonds contains documents of administration of the town of Poděbrady: deeds, official books, file material and accounting material. It also includes census sheets, important for the research of Jewish history.
The following documents are relevant for the first half of the 19th century: files of the political department of the Poděbrady municipality office, group VIII. Judaism, tolerance patent (1826 -1850). Specific mentions of Jews can be found in the documents of individual groups (Group I. Regulations, circulars by the regional office and reports on them by the municipality office; III. Political investigation files, criminal issues, political settlements, interrogations of parties; IX. Business matters, insurance against fire, matters of trade, food tax, and fairs, XVI. Matters of the Poděbrady estate and other estates, auction decrees and notices.)
Information on Jews can also be found in: Inv. no. 609 Jews - permission to build a Jewish synagogue in Poděbrady, census of Jewish inhabitants (1820); inv. no. I/2 lists of Jews (1827-1842); inv. no. I/15 Jewish affairs (1840-41); inv. no. III/16 thefts, orders to reside in the place of domicile, escapes - reporting Jew Josef Štejner (1841-47).
In general, documents on the history of Jews in the town can be found in the agenda concerning domicile, religion in trade or tax matters. From the second half of the 19th century, there are the following documents: inv. no. 682 4/13 (J) School affairs - establishment of a Jewish school (1869-95); inv. no.10/3 synagogue and Jewish school, proposal for their demolition (1940-50); call no. 4/9 Cemetery matters - Jewish cemetery - list of buried Jews (1940-50); inv. no. 1139 4/13 Reports on Jews that they gather in busy places (1940-50); inv. no. 1170 call no. 7/2 and 7/6 - administration of Jewish property, Jewish flats for Germans (1938-50); inv. no.1175 7/5 property of Jews before 1838, seizure of Jewish flats, ban on visiting Aryan restaurants, work duties of Jews; inv. no. 1174 7/6 Reports about damage to Jews (1945-50) (alphabetically by individuals); inv. no. 1135 4/9 Jewish cemetery (1940-1950); inv. no. 1240 12/54 Jewish National Association - establishment of an old people's home for Jews in the Luxor Hotel (1940-50); inv. no. 1170 7/2 Josef Wiener - purchase of a synagogue by the town (1948); inv. no. 1170 7/2 administration of apartments, administration of Jewish property (1938-1950).
- Archival history:
- The town archive was always kept in the town hall. Documents from the oldest period have not been preserved. The older part of the fonds has been preserved only in fragments. The files of the political department of the municipal office from 1826 to 1850 have been almost completely preserved. The fonds was gradually transferred to the central depository of the Nymburk district archives in Lysá nad Labem in the late 1980s. It was definitively organised and inventoried in 1995-2002. There is an inventory for the fonds.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- The first record of Poděbrady dates from 1223. Since the 16th century reports of self-government have been preserved. The administrative body was the town council consisting of 12 councillors who elected the mayor. Since 1850, there had been the municipal committee, which elected the municipal board headed by the mayor. This municipal establishment lasted until 1919. In September 1940, the town council and the council board council were dissolved, and the town administrative commission was established. In January 1942, a German government commissioner was appointed to Poděbrady. After the war, a local national committee was established.
- Access points: locations:
- Poděbrady
- System of arrangement:
- The fonds is arranged as follows: I. Deeds, II. Official books, III. File material: a) registry finding aids b) general agenda files c) domicile right files d) police office files e) census, IV. Accounting material, V. Miscellaneous.
- Access, restrictions:
- The collection is partly accessible.
- Finding aids:
- Šmilauerová, Eva: Archiv mešta Poděbrady 1567-1945(1951). Inventory, 2003, 511p., Inv. No. 928.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Jewish Museum Prague
- Author of the description:
- JMP survey