Metadata: Mayor's office of Săpînţa village
Collection
- Country:
- Romania
- Holding institution:
- Maramureş County division of the Romanian National Archives
- Holding institution (official language):
- Arhivele Naţionale. Direcţia judeţeană Maramureş
- Postal address:
- Bulevardul Bucureşti 26, Baia Mare 430052, judeţul Maramureş
- Phone number:
- 0262-437948
- Email:
- maramures.an@mai.gov.ro
- Reference number:
- Fond 302
- Title:
- Mayor's office of Săpînţa village
- Title (official language):
- Primăria comunei Săpînţa
- Creator/accumulator:
- Mayor's office of Săpînţa village
- Date(s):
- 1920/1971
- Language:
- Romanian; Moldavian; Moldovan
- Extent:
- 342 files
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
- The fonds comprises the records issued by the mayor’s office of the village of Săpînţa from 1920 to 1971. It includes correspondence with the district and county authorities, instructions, dispositions, decisions concerning the administration of the village, vital records registers, a census of young men for drafting from 1903 to 1939, tax records and budget sheets, records concerning the activity of the local elementary school and documents relating to religious life and cultural programs.
- Archival history:
- The fonds was held by the mayor's office of the village Săpînţa before it was transferred to the Maramureş County division of the Romanian National Archives in 1995, where it was inventoried and made accessible to researchers.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- The village of Săpînţa is situated on the right bank of the river Tisa, close to the northern border of present-day Romania, at a distance of 18 km from the town of Sighetu Marmaţiei. It was mentioned for the first time in 1373. Its inhabitants were farmers and cattle breeders, but as early as 1404 the existence of mills is also mentioned. It had a Jewish community since the 18th century, whose members were predominantly of Galician origin who settled here after southern Poland and Bukovina became part of the Austrian Empire. In the 1930 census the Jewish community numbered 998 individuals, which represented almost a third of the total population of 3727. In April and May 1944 this entire community was moved first to the ghetto of Sighet and from there deported to Auschwitz. There has not been a local Jewish community since then.
- Access points: locations:
- Săpînţa
- Subject terms:
- Census
- Education
- Jewish community
- Military
- Taxation
- Vital records
- System of arrangement:
- The fonds is organised into thematic files which are arranged in chronological order.
- Finding aids:
- Inventory No. 594, held by the Maramureş County division of the Romanian National Archives.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Romanian Institute for the Research of National Minorities
- Author of the description:
- Anton Dörner (retired researcher), Ladislau Gyémánt (emeritus professor) 2017
