Metadata: Agricultural Council 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 15
- Title:
- Agricultural Council of Năsăud county
- Title (official language):
- Consilieratul agricol al judeţului Năsăud
- Creator/accumulator:
- Agricultural Council of Năsăud county
- Date(s):
- 1919/1940
- Language:
- Romanian; Moldavian; Moldovan
- Extent:
- 15 linear metres (1,618 files)
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- Good
- Scope and content:
- The collection comprises documents concerning the agrarian reform from 1921 (the organisation of local committees for reform, records of expropriation, statistics about the stage of evolution of the procedures in the county and in different localities, appeals, forced leases, files of the reform for each locality), the organisation and the structure of the agricultural council, personal files, activities to improve agricultural production, nominal statistics on localities of all landowners and their properties, and common pastures. Included are many Jewish landowners and their properties, the effects of the agrarian reform on their properties, petitions and applications from them to the authorities, the Ministry of Agriculture and the Ministry of Finance.
- Archival history:
- The collection was transferred in 1962 to the local branch of the State Archives in Bistriţa. It is is now held at the Romanian National Archives, Directorate of Bistriţa-Năsăud County.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- The agrarian reform in Romania was promulgated by a royal decree of 14 December 1918 and by the law adopted by parliament on 9 November 1921, which was one of the most radical reforms of its kind in Europe. In July 1919 Agricultural Councils were created in each county to fulfil the reform and to supervise and improve the activity in agriculture, the main sector of the Romanian economy at the time. In 1920 such a council was instituted in Bistriţa which was responsible for Bistriţa-Năsăud county. In 1931 its tasks were taken over by the county services of agriculture subordinated to the Ministry of Agriculture, which in 1939 were included in the Agricultural Chambers of each county.
- Access points: locations:
- Bistriţa
- Bistrița-Năsăud
- Subject terms:
- Agriculture
- Real estate
- System of arrangement:
- The fonds is arranged into thematic section, within which the records are organised chronologically.
- Finding aids:
- Inventory No. 1 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