Metadata: District commission for expropriation and ownership in 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 664
- Title:
- District commission for expropriation and ownership in Bistriţa
- Title (official language):
- Comisia de ocol pentru expropriere şi împroprietărire Bistriţa
- Creator/accumulator:
- District commission for expropriation and ownership in Bistriţa
- Date(s):
- 1919/1943
- Language:
- Hungarian
- Romanian; Moldavian; Moldovan
- Extent:
- 2.75 linear metres (343 files)
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- Good
- Scope and content:
- The fonds contains information concerning the estates proposed to be expropriated during the agrarian reform which started in 1921, lists of inhabitants who were to be put in possession of the expropriated land and appeal files concerning Bistriţa and the villages of its district. It also includes records concerning the expropriated properties and those excepted, with the reasoning behind these decisions. Among those affected by this reform are many Jewish landowners (for example: Herman Diamantstein - File 113).
- Archival history:
- The fonds was transferred to the Romanian National Archives, Directorate of Bistriţa-Năsăud County in 2000 and was inventoried in the same year.
- 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
- Subject terms:
- Plunder
- Real estate
- System of arrangement:
- The fonds is arranged by locality, then into thematic sections and within those in chronological order.
- Finding aids:
- Inventory No. 751 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