Metadata: Town hall of Sighetu Marmaţiei
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 46
- Title:
- Town hall of Sighetu Marmaţiei
- Title (official language):
- Primăria oraşului Sighetu Marmaţiei
- Creator/accumulator:
- Town hall of Sighetu Marmaţiei
- Date(s):
- 1679/1966
- Language:
- Hungarian
- Latin
- Romanian; Moldavian; Moldovan
- Extent:
- 1.6 linear metres
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
-
This fonds comprises the records of the town hall of Sighetu Marmaţiei from 1679 to 1966. They cover all aspects of the administration of the town - economy, social problems, taxes and political issues. The collection includes census records from 1924, 1928 and 1929, registers of entrance and issue of documents, records of meetings of the town council, registers of tax payers and their taxes paid, alphabetical indices of the documents issued by the town authorities, registers of the criminal and civil cases judged by the town hall between 1770 and 1807 with alphabetic indices, the register of incomes of the town from 1803 to 1847, the register of inhabitants who kept livestock, register of the estate incomes of the noblemen of Sighet from 1778 to 1809 and registers of vital records from 1879 to 1890.
Jewish references appear especially in the following files: no. 31 - measures to stop the immigration of the Jews from Russia and Poland (1896); no. 29 - dispositions of the Ministry of Internal Affairs concerning the pursuit of the extension of the Zionist movement (1899); no. 25 - official correspondence concerning emigration and the issue of passports (1900); no. 5 - census of the population of the county (1901); no. 7 - official instructions concerning the evidence of strangers (1907); no. 24 - issue of passports and emigration (1913); nos. 346, 354 - register of taxes paid for the Jewish school (1913-1914); no. 8 - authorisation for hiring a rabbi in Bistra (1916).
- Archival history:
- The fonds was held by the mayor's office of Sighet and the Calvinist church of Teceu before it was transferred to the Maramureş County division of the Romanian National Archives, where it was inventoried and made accessible to researchers.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- The town of Sighet obtained royal privileges in 1329, which gave it a large degree of autonomy in administration. After the defeat of the revolution from 1848/1849 this autonomy was radically restricted by the so-called Neo-Absolutist regime which replaced the elected town authorities with those nominated by the military administration of Transylvania. After the Austro-Hungarian Empire was installed in 1867, the law of 1876 established the rule of leadership of the town by an elected college which functioned until the end of the First World War. Between 1896 and 1916 the main concerns of the local authorities with regards to the Jewish population were the limitation of immigration from neighbouring Russia and Poland, where pogroms had become frequent occurrences, and the regulation of emigration especially to North America by the introduction of rules concerning the issue of passports. Periodical censuses of the population were meant to permit a strict control of the number and movement of its Jewish component. The authorities were also concerned about Zionism, although this was of limited extent in Hungary and Transylvania until the First World War.
- Access points: locations:
- Bistra
- Maramureş
- Sighetu Marmației
- Subject terms:
- Census
- Migration
- Passports and visas
- Rabbis
- Zionism
- System of arrangement:
- The fonds is organised into thematic files which are arranged in chronological order.
- Finding aids:
- Inventories No. 694, 792, 793, 1050, 1051 and 1086, 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
