Metadata: Calvinist parish of Cehu-Silvaniei
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 141
- Title:
- Calvinist parish of Cehu-Silvaniei
- Title (official language):
- Oficiul parohia Cehu-Silvaniei
- Creator/accumulator:
- Calvinist parish of Cehu-Silvaniei
- Date(s):
- 1842/1931
- Language:
- Hungarian
- Romanian; Moldavian; Moldovan
- Extent:
- 7 files and registers
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
- This fonds comprises the records of the Calvinist parish of Cehu-Silvaniei, in particular the local school whose antecedents go back to the 17th century and which became in 1890 a Hungarian-language primary state school. In 1892 a new building was built for it, which was extended in 1902. After the First World War, with the installation of the Romanian administration, the school included a Romanian-language section. The fonds contains budgets of revenues and expenses of the parish and of the school, vital records registers and records concerning adoptions and divorces. It also includes a list of names prepared by the local notary of those inhabitants of the town who died in the First World War. Both the registers of the school and the list of those war victims include Jews.
- Archival history:
- The fonds was held by the Calvinist parish of Cehu Silvaniei and was transferred to the Maramureş County division of the Romanian National Archives in 1980.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- The Calvinist confession appeared in Transylvania in the middle of the 16th century and was adopted especially by the Hungarian inhabitants. In the 17th century it became the dominant religious denomination during the existence of the Transylvanian autonomous principality (subordinated to the Turkish Empire), whose princes were mostly Calvinist. In the 18th century under Austrian rule the Calvinist religion became one of the four officially recognised confessions. During the Austro-Hungarian Empire (1867-1918) the Calvinist religion benefitted from the general religious freedom, but the state favoured Hungarian-language primary education. After the First World War, the new Romanian administration ensured minimal conditions for the functioning of the Calvinist church and schools, but pressure was exerted to carry out primary education in the Romanian language.
- Subject terms:
- Education
- Education--Schools and universities
- World War I
- System of arrangement:
- The files in this fonds are arranged in chronological order.
- Finding aids:
- Inventory No. 157, 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
