Metadata: City hall of Arad
Collection
- Country:
- Romania
- Holding institution:
- Arad County division of the Romanian National Archives
- Holding institution (official language):
- Arhivele Naţionale Române. Direcţia Judeţeană Arad
- Postal address:
- Arad, Str. Ceaikovski nr. 2-6, cod 310052, judeţul Arad
- Phone number:
- 0257-233818
- Reference number:
- Fond 8
- Title:
- City hall of Arad
- Title (official language):
- Primăria municipiului Arad
- Creator/accumulator:
- City hall of Arad
- Date(s):
- 1725/1989
- Language:
- German
- Hungarian
- Latin
- Romanian; Moldavian; Moldovan
- Extent:
- 2,792 files
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
- This fonds comprises contains the files and registers of the city hall of Arad from 1725 to 1989. It includes registers of entrance and issue of documents and official correspondence, orders and dispositions of the superior authorities, reports, census records of the inhabitants, budget sheets, bookkeeping registers concerning the income and expenses of the city, contracts, inventories, documents concerning orphans and wills, marriage contracts, records of the guilds of the local craftsmen and merchants, industrial enterprises from the 19th and 20th centuries, territorial systematisation of the city and issues concerning the schools and cultural institutions. In all these files and registers are many Jewish references, reflecting the fact that there was a Jewish community in Arad from the 18th century. It numbered 812 members in 1828 and 4,795 members in 1891, while the census from 1930 registered 7,101 Jewish inhabitants out of a total population of 87,662. Among the files with specific Jewish reference are no. 19 - Jewish properties (1944) and no. 6 - buildings with Jewish owners (1945).
- Archival history:
- The fonds was originally held by the Popular Council of the city of Arad. It was transferred in 1989 to the Arad County division of the Romanian National Archives, where it was inventoried and made available to researchers.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- Arad is mentioned for the first time in the 12th century. It later became the seat of the medieval county of the same name. In the middle of the 17th century it was conquered by the Turks, being liberated at the end of the same century by the Austrian army. Under imperial rule it was put first under the authority of the Austrian economic administration, obtaining in 1834 the status of a royal free city with full administrative autonomy. After 1867, under Hungarian administration, it was an autonomous city with own institutions of administration and justice, under the leadership of a mayor and an elected city council. After the First World War it was organised in accordance with the Romanian administrative system and after 1940, when in the Hungarian administration was reinstalled in Northern Transylvania, Arad remained a part of Romania. The Antonescu dictatorship imposed numerous restrictive antisemitic measures during the Second World War, but the Jewish population of Arad was not deported and survived the Holocaust.
- Access points: locations:
- Arad
- Subject terms:
- Census
- Real estate
- System of arrangement:
- The fonds is organised into thematic files which are arranged in chronological order.
- Finding aids:
- Inventories No. 61, 101, 198, 554, 682, 710, 714, 779, 854, 912, 921, 952, 998, 1234, 1333, held by the Arad 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), 2018