Metadata: Prefecture of Năsăud county
Collection
- Country:
- Romania
- Holding institution:
- Romanian National Archives, Directorate of Bistriţa-Năsăud County
- Holding institution (official language):
- Arhivele Naţionale Române, Direcţia judeţeană Bistriţa-Năsăud
- Postal address:
- Gării Str. 3-5, Bistriţa 420139, judeţul Bistriţa-Năsăud, Romania
- Phone number:
- 0040-263-203-249
- Reference number:
- Fond 3
- Title:
- Prefecture of Năsăud county
- Title (official language):
- Prefectura judeţului Năsăud
- Creator/accumulator:
- Prefecture of Năsăud county
- Date(s):
- 1877/1950
- Language:
- German
- Hungarian
- Romanian; Moldavian; Moldovan
- Extent:
- 189 linear metres (34,539 files)
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- Good
- Scope and content:
- The collection includes rich material concerning Năsăud county, arranged in thematic sections: administrative records; records of the prefect of the county; records of the deputy prefect; vital records registers; protocols; county council records; juridical records; wood administration; personal files; orphans’ and tutorial records. Important political events are well-represented: the change of authority in 1918, 1940, 1944-1945 as well as the agrarian reforms in 1921 and 1945. The institutional structure and its modifications, the electoral lists, drafting, social and health problems are also documented. There is a range of material relating to the Jewish communities, including petitions and grievances of the Jewish communities and persons for violent attacks, property damages and financial claims. Documents from the Jewish community of Bistriţa includes passport requests (files 64; 174; 84) and records from the period of the Holocaust (forced labour, confiscation of Jewish properties, deportation).
- Archival history:
- The collection was preserved by the county council of Bistriţa-Năsăud and the local council of Rodna until 1951 when it was taken over by the local branch of the State Archives which created a first inventory in 1962-1963. Other parts of the fonds were transferred to the Romanian National Archives, Directorate of Bistriţa-Năsăud County, in 1977 and 1981 and inventoried between 2008 and 2010.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- Bistriţa-Năsăud county was established in 1876 according to Law XXXIII/1876 issued by the Hungarian Parliament of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. It initially included 6 districts which were reduced to four in 1888. This lasted until 1925, when the new Romanian authority instituted the county Năsăud with two urban centres - Bistriţa and Năsăud - and 110 rural communities distributed in 6 districts. In 1938, Năsăud county was included in a larger structure, the district of Someş. Between 1940 and 1944 the Hungarian administration took over, while after the Second World War this part of Transylvania became a component of Romania again.
- Access points: locations:
- Bistriţa
- Bistrița-Năsăud
- Năsăud
- System of arrangement:
- The fonds comprises 10 thematic series of records. Within each series the documents are arranged in chronological order.
- Access, restrictions:
- For the vital records registers in accordance with Law 16/1996 the access is assured only for those older than 100 years.
- Finding aids:
- Inventories No. 759, 780-786 of the Romanian National Archives, Directorate of Bistriţa-Năsăud County.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Romanian Institute for the Research of National Minorities
- Author of the description:
- Levente Tóth (archivist, Protestant Theological Institute Cluj-Napoca), Ladislau Gyémánt (emeritus professor Cluj-Napoca), 2017