Metadata: Regional Tabula, Lwów
Collection
- Country:
- Ukraine
- Holding institution:
- Central State Historical Archives of Ukraine in Lviv
- Holding institution (official language):
- Центральний державний історичний архів України, м. Львів
- Postal address:
- 3a Soborna sq., 79008 Lviv
- Phone number:
- +380 (32) 235-40-63; +380 (32) 235-56-57
- Web address:
- https://archives.gov.ua/Eng/Archives/ca04.php
- Email:
- tsdial@arch.gov.ua
- Reference number:
- F. 166
- Title:
- Regional Tabula, Lwów
- Title (official language):
- КРАЙОВА ТАБУЛЯ, м. ЛЬВІВ
- Creator/accumulator:
- Regional Tabula, Lwów
- Date(s):
- 1632/1939
- Language:
- German
- Polish
- Latin
- Extent:
- 45,165 storage units
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Scope and content:
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Nearly all of the fond’s inventories contain documents that pertain to Jewish history. Most of are concentrated in op. 1, which contains the 1,092 books of the Lwów Municipal Tabula, among which are 266 books containing information on changes in the legal or financial status of real estate owners in Lwów; in particular, the Lwów synagogue (1855) and Lwów Jewish hospital (1844) appear in the alphabetical index of real estate objects. The 1,094 land books (op. 1) of cities and villages of Galicia, in particular in the territory of the Brzeżany, Żółkiew, Złoczów, Kołomyja, Przemyśl, Rzeszów, Sambor, Stanisławów, Stryj, Sanok, Tarnopol and Czortków areas, contain information on Jews’ purchase and sale agreements, promissory notes, contracts, and last wills and testaments; for example, the property log for residents of Drohobycz contains records on the recognition of a mutual settlement between J. Sobieski and a Jew named P. Hałman, certified by their signatures (1789); on the collection of a tax on jewelry from a Jew named Eli Albuch, signed by him (1789); etc.; and the Drohobycz log of last wills and testaments contains the wills of Berl Rosenberg (1809), Perez Halemann (1810), Sura Waicenauer (1811), and others.
Ops. 2-117 contain materials of the Gentry Court in Lwów (from 1855 on, the Supreme Regional Court), which heard cases involving major land holdings, including cases involving Jews. These materials contain documents on the legal status of real estate owned by Sh. Rabinovich in Brody (op. 4, 1782); by L. Volfovich, in the villages of Werbiwka and Sieniawa, (Tarnopol area) (op. 5, 1783-1803); H. Hedovich, in the villages of Kulczyce, Suszyca, Witwica etc. (Sambor and Stryj areas) (op. 6, 1784-92); M. Yoklovich, in the villages of Mokrzany and Szeszerowice (Przemyśl area) (op. 6a, 1784); Sh. Mintzeles, in the villages of Pasiczna, Czerlany and Zarudzie (Tarnopol and Stanisławów areas) (op. 9, 1831-53); I. and J. Oppenheimer, in the town of Ropczyce (Tarnów area) (op. 10, 1788); E. Rosenberg, in the village of Hruszów (Nowy Sącz area) (op. 16, 1795, 1896); etc.
- Administrative/biographical history:
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The Royal Tabula (Latin: Tabula Regia) was established on 24 March 1780 pursuant to a proclamation on tabulae promulgated by Austrian Emperor Joseph II on 22 April 1774; the Royal Tabula was a special entity of the Royal Tribunal whose purpose was to register real estate in special logs, confirming and securing the rights of landowners and improving the tax collection system. It also dealt with purchase and sale agreements and wills. After the judicial reform of 1784, the Royal Tribunal was liquidated and replaced with the gentry court system, whereupon the Royal Tabula was subordinated to the Lemberg/Lwów Gentry Court and began to be referred to as the Galician or Regional Tabula (German: Galizische Landtafel Tabula; Polish: Tabula Krajowa we Lwowie). The Regional Tabula received documents confirming ownership of real estate from all over Galicia, with the exception of Lwów itself. Entries in land books were regulated by the Austrian Civil Code of 1811, and later a separate law of 1871. These books confirmed ownership rights to particular pieces of real estate, including land, and also concomitant obligations pertaining to the use of land as loan collateral. From 1855 on, the Regional Tabula was subordinate to the Supreme Regional Court in Lwów, which regulated the local-level keeping of land and mortgage books. In 1860, the so-called Municipal Tabula, founded in Lwów in 1792 to register real estate and collect established taxes on it, became part of the Regional Tabula.
The following designations were adopted for documents inscribed in tabular books: gentry confirmations (Latin: liber majestatis), promissory notes (obligationum), contracts (contractuum), confirmation of plenipotentiary powers (plenipotentiarum), agreements (pactorum), calculations (quietantiarum), certificates (relationum), wills (testamentorum), donations (fundationum), and annotations (praenotationum). Annotation books were subsequently called property books (dominiorum). Each estate or piece of property was described under three rubrics: 1) the name of the object, name of its owner, and the latter’s legal and financial status; 2) duties owed; and 3) payment of the latter. This tabular structure remained virtually unchanged until the end of its existence. In 1804, the division of tabular books into different categories was discontinued, replaced by unified books (instrumentorum).
The Regional Tabula was liquidated on 1 September 1896, whereupon its functions and archives were transferred to the Land Registry Office of the Supreme Regional Court in Lwów.
- System of arrangement:
- The fond includes 137 inventories, five of which are designated by letters; op. 1 is systematized by document type, the rest of the inventories, by document heading. There are name, geographical, and recordkeeping indexes to the inventories.
- Finding aids:
- Inventories are available.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Jewish Theological Seminary