Metadata: Forestry Directorate Bistriţa
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 36
- Title:
- Forestry Directorate Bistriţa
- Title (official language):
- Direcţia silvică Bistriţa
- Creator/accumulator:
- Forestry Directorate Bistriţa
- Date(s):
- 1856/1950
- Language:
- Hungarian
- Romanian; Moldavian; Moldovan
- Extent:
- 14.8 linear metres (925 files)
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- Good
- Scope and content:
- The fonds contains contracts of the Forestry Direction Bistriţa with different firms for selling and purchasing wood, competition records, budget sheets, statutes and regulations, railway projects, records of the Forestry Commission, decisions of the Forestry Direction, history of the woods with data about their owners and the modalities of valuing them. It includes personal files, document registers and bookkeeping files. It also includes regulations for rafting on the river Someş from 1894 and a list of the mills on the same river. The records include Jewish owners of woods and mills and their trade in wood (File 3/1894; File 2/1905).
- Archival history:
- The collection was transferred in 1957 to the local branch of the State Archives in Bistriţa. It was inventoried and prepared for microfilming in 2000 and it is is now held at the Romanian National Archives, Directorate of Bistriţa-Năsăud County.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- The Forestry Service was founded in Năsăud in 1851 for the administration of the woods of the former frontier-guard regiment. In 1890 all the forests were declared communal property under state administration and a Forestry Direction was established in Bistriţa. In 1910 the Forest Code was adopted, which was preserved with modifications in the interwar period under the Romanian administration. For the valuing of resources of the woods a society named Regna was founded, which had under its jurisdiction the forests of the 44 former frontier-guard communities. In 1933 the Forestry Direction Bistriţa was replaced by an Autonomous Office of the State Forests based in Bistriţa, with four subordinated offices in Năsăud county. After the Second World War, a Romanian-Soviet society for the exploitation and industrialisation of the wood named SOVROMLEMN was created in 1946. The constitution from 1948 declared all woods state property and this remained valid during the entire Communist period until 1989.
- Subject terms:
- Trade and commerce
- System of arrangement:
- The collection is arranged in chronological order.
- Finding aids:
- Inventory No. 734 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
