Metadata: Administration of Lăpuş district
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 78
- Title:
- Administration of Lăpuş district
- Title (official language):
- Pretura plăşii Lăpuş
- Creator/accumulator:
- Administration of Lăpuş district
- Date(s):
- 1925/1950
- Language:
- Romanian; Moldavian; Moldovan
- Extent:
- 30 files
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
-
This fonds comprises the records of the administration of Lăpuş district concerning maintenance of public order, implementation of laws and dispositions of superior authorities, control of schools, cultural centres and churches in the villages of the district, prevention and fight against epidemics and epizootics, solving problems of public utilities, supervision of economic activities especially in agriculture and trade, organisation of censuses of population and of elections.
Jewish references appear particularly in the following files: no. 15 - tabulation of Jewish properties; no. 16 - census of the population according to ethnic categories (1947); no. 18 - authorisations for craftsmen and merchants.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- The district of Lăpuş was established in Maramureş in 1925 in accordance with Romanian law of administration which replaced the previous system of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, which had lasted until the end of the First World War. The district had the role of an intermediary structure between the prefecture of the county and the villages and towns which made up the district, coordinating activities in the areas of administration, economy, public finances, police, healthcare and education. In 1940, by the Second Vienna Award arbitrated by Germany and Italy which had accorded the administration of Northern Transylvania to Hungary, the Hungarian system of administration was reintroduced, which lasted until 1944. Lăpuş district functioned until 1948 when the installation of the Communist regime brought with it a total change of administrative structure, the counties and districts being replace by regions and departments.
- Access points: locations:
- Lăpuş
- Maramureş
- Tîrgu Lăpuş
- Subject terms:
- Census
- Professions
- Professions--Crafts
- Trade and commerce
- System of arrangement:
- The files in this fonds are arranged in chronological order.
- Finding aids:
- Inventory No. 196, 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
