Metadata: Town Hall Reşiţa
Collection
- Country:
- Romania
- Holding institution:
- Romanian National Archives, Directorate of Caraş-Severin County
- Holding institution (official language):
- Arhivele Naţionale Române, Direcţia judeţeană Caraş-Severin
- Postal address:
- Şesul Nou Str. No. 12, Caransebeş 325400, Caraş-Severin county, Romania
- Phone number:
- 0040-255-512981
- Reference number:
- Fond 35
- Title:
- Town Hall Reşiţa
- Title (official language):
- Primăria oraşului Reşiţa
- Creator/accumulator:
- Town Hall Reşiţa
- Date(s):
- 1916/1981
- Language:
- German
- Hungarian
- Romanian; Moldavian; Moldovan
- Extent:
- 1,374 files
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- Good
- Scope and content:
- The fonds contains records of council and interim commission meetings, administrative decisions, orders and reports, financial regulations and documents of the economic, sanitary, social assistance, veterinary and technical departments of the town hall. Many documents refer to the great industrial enterprises of Reşiţa. Jewish records concern the implementation of the 1938 law on the revision of nationality rights (Inventory 48, File 8/1938), restrictions on Jewish artists and musicians and antisemitic policies during the Second World War, including expropriation of Jewish property, organisation of forced labour detachments, confiscation of Jewish shops, evacuation of Jews and exclusion of Jewish pupils from the state educational system (Files 6/1941; 9/1941; 11/1941).
- Archival history:
- The fonds suffered significant losses during the Second World War. The remnants were preserved by the council of Reşiţa and transferred in 1969 to the Romanian National Archives, Directorate of Caraş-Severin County, where they were inventoried.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- Reşiţa is mentioned in documents from the 15th century and continued to exist under Ottoman rule. After Banat Province was conquered by the Austrian Empire, an industrial centre developed from 1760, using labour from Austria and Germany, as well as from Oltenia, part of Wallachia still was under Turkish authority. It was still considered a rural community, being around 1910 the largest such community in Banat, and was not given town status until 1925. The Jewish population was 427 (1.9% of the total) in 1920, 301 (1.2%) in 1930 and 166 (0.4%) in 1956.
- Access points: locations:
- Reşiţa
- System of arrangement:
- The fonds is arranged into thematic sections, within which the records are organised chronologically.
- Finding aids:
- Inventories No. 48; 1423; 1447; 1659/1666 of the Romanian National Archives, Directorate of Caraş-Severin County.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Romanian Institute for the Research of National Minorities
- Author of the description:
- Attila Gidó (Institutul pentru Studierea Problemelor Minorităţilor Naţionale, Cluj-Napoca), Ladislau Gyémánt (emeritus professor, Cluj-Napoca), 2016