Metadata: District administration Gheorgheni
Collection
- Country:
- Romania
- Holding institution:
- Harghita County division of the Romanian National Archives
- Holding institution (official language):
- Serviciul Judetean Harghita al Arhivelor Nationale
- Postal address:
- Bulevardul Frăției 6, Miercurea Ciuc 530112, jud. Harghita
- Phone number:
- 0266-312598
- Reference number:
- 77
- Title:
- District administration Gheorgheni
- Title (official language):
- Pretura plăşii Gheorgheni
- Creator/accumulator:
- District administration Gheorgheni
- Date(s):
- 1877/1950
- Language:
- Hungarian
- Romanian; Moldavian; Moldovan
- Extent:
- 142 files
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
-
This fonds comprises the records created by the administration of Gheorgheni district between 1877 and 1950. It includes petitions, reports, records, budget sheets, electoral lists, statistics of the craftsmen’s associations from 1877 to 1941 and payrolls of the forest industry enterprises of the district between 1945 and 1950.
The following files are of Jewish interest: no. 7 (petitions for the issue of passports, 1877); nos. 15 and 25 (leases of pastures and pubs, 1882-1883); no. 30 (electoral lists for the parliamentary elections of 1883 including Jewish voters); no. 36 (details of the most important taxpayers in the district, 1884); no. 46 (taxes paid by factory owners and craftsmen, 1888); nos. 78 and 91 (list of craftsmen and merchants from the district, 1891-1893); no. 111 (expropriation of the drugstore of Ernest Frank from Sărmaş, 1941-1942).
- Archival history:
- The fonds was transferred to the Harghita County division of the Romanian National Archives in 1972 and 1980, where it was inventoried and made available to researchers.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- The district of Gheorgheni was established in Ciuc county in accordance with the law of territorial organisation of 1884. It included 11 villages, each of which included a notary office. In 1907 Gheorgheni obtained the urban status of a town having its own town council. After the First World War, the Romanian system of territorial organisation was introduced and two other villages were added to the district of Gheorgheni. In 1940 the Hungarian administration was reinstalled, which lasted until the end of the Second World War. In 1945 the district was reorganised in accordance with the Romanian system, including 11 villages and the town of Gheorgheni. This organisation lasted until 1950 when the Communist regime reshaped the territorial repartition and Gheorgheni district became a part of the so-called Hungarian Autonomous Region.
- Access points: locations:
- Gheorgheni
- Sărmaș
- Access points: persons/families:
- Frank, Ernest
- Subject terms:
- Passports and visas
- Plunder
- Taxation
- Trade and commerce
- System of arrangement:
- The files in this fonds are arranged in chronological order.
- Finding aids:
- Inventories No. 260 and 261, held by the Harghita County division of the Romanian National Archives.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Romanian Institute for the Research of National Minorities
- Author of the description:
- Levente Tóth (archivist, Protestant Theological Institute Cluj), Ladislau Gyémánt (emeritus professor), 2018
