Metadata: City hall of Satu Mare
Collection
- Country:
- Romania
- Holding institution:
- Satu Mare County division of the Romanian National Archives
- Holding institution (official language):
- Arhivele Naţionale Române. Direcţia Judeţeană Satu Mare
- Postal address:
- Satu Mare, Str. 1 Decembrie 1918, 13, Satu Mare, 440010, jud. Satu Mare
- Phone number:
- 0261-711102
- Reference number:
- Fond 15
- Title:
- City hall of Satu Mare
- Title (official language):
- Primăria municipiului Satu Mare
- Creator/accumulator:
- City hall of Satu Mare
- Date(s):
- 1240/1979
- Language:
- German
- Hungarian
- Latin
- Romanian; Moldavian; Moldovan
- Extent:
- 9,014 files
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
-
This fonds comprises the records of the city hall of Satu Mare from 1240 to 1979. They include medieval diplomas and records, territorial delimitations, financial documents, records of the general assembly meetings of the city and the county, census of the population, military records, juridical files, constructions, registers of correspondence, bookkeeping files, alphabetical indices, records concerning schools, theatre, health institutions, administration of the woods of the city and issues relating to orphans and wills.
The following files contain specific Jewish references: no. 62 - instructions of the Hungarian administration (1940); nos. 3-14 - orders, decisions, instructions, petitions and records concerning the status of Jews, their property and restrictions of their civil rights (1940-1944).
- Archival history:
- The fonds was originally held by the Popular Council of the city of Satu Mare. It was transferred to the Satu Mare County division of the Romanian National Archives in 1975, 1979, 1982, 1993, 1994 and 2007, where it was inventoried and made available to researchers.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- The town of Satu Mare is mentioned for the first time in medieval documents of the 13th century. It obtained royal privileges which assured its administrative and juridical autonomy. In the 17th century it suffered from the conflicts between the Austrian and Turkish armies in its area. The most severe damage occurred during the revolt against the Austrian rule led by Ferenc Rakoczi between 1703 and 1711. The peace treaty between the imperial forces and the rebels was concluded in Satu Mare in 1711. The city developed in the 19th century into a modern centre with considerable industrial and commercial activity. After the First World War its administration was reorganised according to the Romanian system, while between 1940 and 1944 Hungarian rule was reestablished. After the Second World War Satu Mare became again part of Romania and after 1948 it was organised according to the system introduced by the Communist regime. In May-June 1944 its important Jewish community was deported to Auschwitz.
- Access points: locations:
- Satu Mare
- Subject terms:
- Antisemitism
- Antisemitism--Antisemitic legislation
- Holocaust
- System of arrangement:
- The fonds is organised into thematic files which are arranged in chronological order.
- Finding aids:
- Inventories No. 1, 2, 88-90, 125, 126, 128, 141-149, 161, 162, 180, 195, 390, 405, 431, held by the Satu Mare County division of the Romanian National Archives.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Romanian Institute for the Research of National Minorities
- Author of the description:
- Attila Gidó (researcher, Institute for Study of National Minorities, Cluj-Napoca), Ladislau Gyémánt (emeritus professor), 2017
