Metadata: Town hall of Baia Sprie
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 2
- Title:
- Town hall of Baia Sprie
- Title (official language):
- Primăria oraşului Baia Sprie
- Creator/accumulator:
- Town hall of Baia Sprie
- Date(s):
- 1850/1953
- Language:
- German
- Hungarian
- Romanian; Moldavian; Moldovan
- Extent:
- 929 files and registers
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
-
This fonds comprises the records and registers issued of the town hall of the mining town of Baia Sprie in the second half of the 19th and first half of the 20th century until the beginning of the Communist regime. The records relate to the administrative, economic, social, political and fiscal aspects of town administration. They include censuses of the population of the town, lists of craftsmen and merchants, lists of leaseholders of estates and pubs, wills, passports, tabulation of immoveable properties, electoral lists and contracts. The registers comprise vital records, court records, petitions, orphan cases and annual drafting.
The following files include specific Jewish references: no. 24 - Jewish properties (1854); no. 16 - pubs and estates leased by Jewish leaseholders (1858); no. 4 - Jewish orphans (1861); no. 14 - wills, contracts, real estate transactions, tabulation of properties obtained by Jewish inhabitants (1862); no. 9 - name changes (1871, 1889); no. 20 - status of Jews (1871).
- Archival history:
- The fonds was transferred in 1949 to the Cluj regional division of the State Archives and was later transferred to the Maramureş County division of the Romanian National Archives, where it was inventoried in 1974.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- The town of Baia Sprie became a mining centre in the second half of the 17th century. It was developed and modernised in the 18th century as part of the Austrian reform policy which was designed to make full use of the economic resources of Hungary and Transylvania, which came under imperial rule in 1690. Due to this mercantilist policy, there were over 300 mines in operation in 1800, which belonged to 46 mining societies. In 1896 the total extent of the mining drifts surpassed 10km. In 1928 the mines of Baia Sprie and the surrounding area produced 2300kg of silver, 1200kg of lead, 70kg of copper and 6kg of gold. Until 1848 it was forbidden for Jews to settle in mining towns, including Baia Sprie, but after 1850 the size of the Jewish population and number of Jewish properties increased considerably and they were represented in political life as evidenced by the electoral lists. In 1948 the newly installed Communist regime nationalised the entire mining industry, including the enterprises in Baia Sprie.
- Access points: locations:
- Baia Sprie
- Subject terms:
- Census
- Legal matters
- Legal status of Jews
- Orphans
- Real estate
- Trade and commerce
- System of arrangement:
- The fonds is arranged into thematic files and chronological registers.
- Finding aids:
- Inventories No. 43; 44; 45; 215; 411, 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
