Metadata: Town Hall of Suceava
Collection
- Country:
- Romania
- Holding institution:
- National Archives of Romania, Suceava County Branch
- Holding institution (official language):
- Arhivele Naționale ale României, Direcţia Judeţeană Suceava
- Postal address:
- Arhivele Naționale ale României, Direcţia Judeţeană Suceava, Strada Ştefan cel Mare nr. 33, cod 720003, jud. Suceava Romania
- Phone number:
- +40 230 531 572
- Email:
- suceava@arhivelenationale.ro
- Reference number:
- număr curent 425; fond 4; inventar 4 and 387
- Title:
- Town Hall of Suceava
- Title (official language):
- Primăria Orașului Suceava
- Creator/accumulator:
- Municipal administration of Suceava
- Date(s):
- 1784/1950
- Language:
- Romanian; Moldavian; Moldovan
- German
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
- This collection consists of the records of the town hall of the municipality of Suceava from the start of the Austrian period until 1950. Although the early years contain fewer records, many of which concern settling of accounts with Moldavian authorities and the delimitation of property boundaries, by the early 19th century the records are arranged consistently in discrete groups. The collection is arranged by year and then by topic. In each year there are usually files regarding welfare assistance and social programs, municipal staff and budget, education, city council, administration of public resources (land, hunting and fishing), city services (including fire brigades, sanitation and utilities), tax obligations and disputes, commercial affairs, citizenship, records requests and military affairs. Significant deviations from this overall pattern are conditioned by historical events, for example the outbreak of war or epidemics. Although slight changes to the overall record structure are apparent after the municipality passed into Romanian administration after the World War I, the basic record structure from the Austrian period remained intact. Notably, owing to regime change, there is a marked increase in the number of files and papers regarding the establishment or renunciation of citizenship during the interwar period. In light of the significant Jewish population in the town and region, material related in some way to local Jewish history may be found in a great many files. Early references to Jewish settlement can be found in a series of documents from the late 18th and early 19th centuries citing land sale or purchase or Jewish involvement in trade or other local administrative matters. In the later 19th and early 20th centuries some folders specifically cite Jewish-related content, for example charts recording Jewish residents in 1844 and papers related to Jews illicitly crossing the border in the early interwar period. The interwar period has files on various cultural and athletic societies, including many Jewish organisations. From the World War II period there are several files on Jewish property seized by the state (these are – or were in 2013, the time of the present survey – largely closed to researchers). For details on the items mentioned above and others, see the entry for this collection at http://jbat.lbi.org/, subfield ‘contains’, and click on any link.
- Archival history:
- The collection was maintained by the town hall until the communist period, during which it was acquired and processed by the Suceava branch of the National Archives.
- Access points: locations:
- Suceava
- Subject terms:
- Citizenship
- Plunder
- Real estate
- Sports
- Trade and commerce
- Welfare
- System of arrangement:
- The collection is arranged by year and then by topic.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Leo Baeck Institute
