Metadata: County Court Caraş
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 65
- Title:
- County Court Caraş
- Title (official language):
- Tribunalul judeţean Caraş
- Creator/accumulator:
- County Court Caraş
- Date(s):
- 1860/1952
- Language:
- German
- Hungarian
- Romanian; Moldavian; Moldovan
- Extent:
- 7,807 files
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- Good
- Scope and content:
- The fonds contains records of cases judged by Caraş County Court and gives information about the economic, social, political and cultural life of the county. Many cases concern banks and other commercial organisations. The court also ruled on mining rights, labour disputes, guardianship cases and authorisation of cultural and social associations. Jewish-related material includes cases of Jewish firms and individuals (files 20/1876; 3/1890; 8/1890; 1/1918), expropriation of Jewish properties in the Holocaust period (9/1941; 10/1943) and restitution of Jewish property after 1945 (29/1945).
- Archival history:
- The inventoried fonds is preserved by the Romanian National Archives, Directorate of Caraş-Severin County.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- Caraş County Court was founded in accordance with Austro-Hungarian legislation. After the First World War, its structure and activities were regulated in accordance with the Romanian legal system, and it was given authority over local courts and served as their court of appeal. It was abolished in 1952 in the communist reorganisation of the judicial system.
- Access points: persons/families:
- Goldstein, Iosif
- Klein, Pinkas
- Löwenfeld, Iulius
- Mayer, Hillel
- Subject terms:
- Holocaust
- Legal matters
- Plunder
- Restitution and compensation
- System of arrangement:
- The fonds is arranged into thematic sections, within which the records are organised chronologically.
- Finding aids:
- Inventories No. 105; 232; 233 of the Romanian National Archives, Directorate of Caraş 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
