Metadata: Registers and records of the bank of Baia Mare
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 6
- Title:
- Registers and records of the bank of Baia Mare
- Title (official language):
- Banca oraşului Baia Mare. Inventarul registrelor şi documentelor
- Creator/accumulator:
- Bank of the town of Baia Mare
- Date(s):
- 1862/1944
- Language:
- Hungarian
- Romanian; Moldavian; Moldovan
- Extent:
- 9 linear metres of records and 25 registers
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- poor
- Scope and content:
- This fonds contains records about the founding of the bank of the of town Baia Mare from 1862, registers of depositors for 1868/ to 1872, the register of records of the meetings of the administration committee from 1909 to 1919, registers of correspondence with clients, partner institutions and authorities from 1878 to 1900, registers of those who benefitted from credits accorded by the bank, credit requests, the tabulation of immoveable goods confiscated for defaults on payment and records concerning the difficulties of the bank during the economic crisis of 1929-1933 when it was close to being declared bankrupt. Among the depositors, beneficiaries of credit and partners of the bank appear many Jewish individuals and firms from Baia Mare and other localities in Maramureş county.
- Archival history:
- The material of this fonds was preserved by the State Bank of Baia Mare before it was transferred to the State Archives of Baia Mare. It was inventoried and is now held at the Maramureş County division of the Romanian National Archives.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- The decision to found a bank of the town of Baia Mare was taken by the town council on 13 September 1858 and implemented in practice in 1862 when the court of Satu Mare validated the statutes of the bank. Its purpose was to stimulate the local economy by allowing the local population to invest in profitable business projects. It became a member of the Banking Union of Hungary and a branch of the Austro-Hungarian Bank until the end of the First World War. It was administrated by a committee of 15 members elected by the town council of Baia Mare. It continued its activity under the Romanian administration in the interwar period, being in business relationships with the most important banks in Romania. In the period between 1929 and 1933 it was in great difficulty, being not far from bankruptcy. Its activity ceased in 1948 when all banks in Romania were nationalised by the Communist regime.
- Access points: locations:
- Baia Mare
- Subject terms:
- Financial matters
- Financial matters--Banks, banking, and bankers
- System of arrangement:
- The fonds is arranged into thematic files and registers. Within the registers the items are in chronological or alphabetical order.
- Finding aids:
- Inventories No. 52-53, 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
